Countries
India
Burma
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
India
Burundi, Gambia
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Africa, Asia
Minority Language
Great Britain, Kenya, Malawi, Oman, Pakistan, Tanzania, Uganda, United States of America, Zambia
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
-
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Interesting Facts
- Gujarati was the first language of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi("Father of the Nation of India") and Vallabhbhai Patel ("Iron Man of India").
- Most of the words in Gujarati language are adopted from Sanskrit.
- Kirundi language is tonal, since it has high and low essential tones.
- Kirundi Language is referred as a language where Meeussen's rule is active, this rule describes a certain pattern of tonal change in Bantu languages.
Similar To
Bengali Language
Kinyarwanda Language
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
4721
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
85
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3119
9
60
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Scripts
Devanagari
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
66
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
18 weeks36 weeks
3
88
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Hello
નમસ્તે (namaste)
Bwakeye
Thank You
ધન્યવાદ (dhanvaad)
Urakoze
How Are You?
કેમ છો (kem cho?)
Urakomeye?
Good Night
શુભ રાત્રે (shub rātrē)
Ijoro ryiza
Good Evening
સાંજે સારી (sān̄jē sārī)
Mwiriwe
Good Afternoon
સારા બપોરે (sārā bapōrē)
Mwiriwe
Good Morning
સુ પ્રભાત (su prabhat)
Mwaramutse
Please
કૃપા કરીને(Kr̥pā karīnē)
Ndagusavye
Sorry
મન્ને મફ કરો (manne maaf karo)
Ndasubiza
Bye
બાય (Bāya)
N’agasaga
I Love You
હું તને પ્રેમ કરુ છું (hūṃ tane prem karū chūṃ)
Ndi waramutse
Excuse Me
માફ કરશો (Māpha karaśō)
Ndasaba
Dialect 1
Kathiyawadi
Rwanda-Rundi
Where They Speak
India, Mauritius, Oman, Pakistan, Singapore, South Africa, Tanzania, United Kingdom, United States of America
Burundi, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda
How Many People Speak
46,000,000.0020,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Kharwa
Ha
Where They Speak
India, Mauritius, Pakistan, Singapore, United Kingdom, United States of America
Tanzania
How Many People Speak
56,000,000.00990,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Surati
Shubi
Where They Speak
-
Tanzania
How Many People Speak
56,000,000.00153,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
86
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
60.00 million8.80 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.74 %0.13 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
50.00 million8.80 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
55.00 million12.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
ગુજરાતી (gujarātī)
íkiRǔndi
Alternative Names
Gujerathi, Gujerati, Gujrathi
Rundi, Urundi
French Name
goudjrati
rundi
German Name
Gujarati-Sprache
Kirundi
Pronunciation
[ɡudʒəˈɾɑːt̪i]
[kɪˈrʊndi]
Ethnicity
Gujaratis
Hutu, Tutsi, and Twa
Origin
15
1500
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Niger-Congo Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
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Branch
Indic
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Gujarati
No early forms
Standard Forms
Modern Gujarati
Kirundi
Language Position
2386
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Gujarati
Kirundi Sign Language
Scope
Individual
-
ISO 639 1
gu
rn
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
guj
run
ISO 639 2/B
guj
run
ISO 639 3
guj
run
ISO 639 6
guj
run
Glottocode
guja1252
rund1242
Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
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Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
-
Language Morphological Typology
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