Countries
India
Brunei, Malaysia, Singapore
Total No. Of Countries
13
0
46
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National Language
India
Malaysia
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Indonesia
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Great Britain, Kenya, Malawi, Oman, Pakistan, Tanzania, Uganda, United States of America, Zambia
Thailand
Regulated By
-
Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka
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.
- One of the most politically powerful language historically is Malaysian Language.
- Malaysian earliest known inscriptions were found in South of Sumatra way back in 683-6 AD.
Similar To
Bengali Language
Indonesian Language
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
Tamil Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
4726
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
86
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
3124
9
60
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Scripts
Devanagari
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
66
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
18 weeks36 weeks
3
88
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Hello
નમસ્તે (namaste)
Hai
Thank You
ધન્યવાદ (dhanvaad)
terima kasih
How Are You?
કેમ છો (kem cho?)
Apa khabar?
Good Night
શુભ રાત્રે (shub rātrē)
Selamat Malam
Good Evening
સાંજે સારી (sān̄jē sārī)
Selamat Petang
Good Afternoon
સારા બપોરે (sārā bapōrē)
Selamat tengah hari
Good Morning
સુ પ્રભાત (su prabhat)
Selamat pagi
Please
કૃપા કરીને(Kr̥pā karīnē)
sila
Sorry
મન્ને મફ કરો (manne maaf karo)
maaf
Bye
બાય (Bāya)
Selamat tinggal
I Love You
હું તને પ્રેમ કરુ છું (hūṃ tane prem karū chūṃ)
Saya sayang kamu
Excuse Me
માફ કરશો (Māpha karaśō)
Maafkan saya
Dialect 1
Kathiyawadi
Bengkulu
Where They Speak
India, Mauritius, Oman, Pakistan, Singapore, South Africa, Tanzania, United Kingdom, United States of America
Bengkulu Province, Sumatra
How Many People Speak
46,000,000.001,600,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Kharwa
Pekal
Where They Speak
India, Mauritius, Pakistan, Singapore, United Kingdom, United States of America
Indonesia
How Many People Speak
56,000,000.0030,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Surati
Musi
Where They Speak
-
Indonesia
How Many People Speak
56,000,000.003,100,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
824
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
60.00 million175.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.74 %1.16 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
50.00 million77.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
55.00 million98.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
ગુજરાતી (gujarātī)
Bahasa melayu
Alternative Names
Gujerathi, Gujerati, Gujrathi
Bahasa Malaysia
French Name
goudjrati
malais
German Name
Gujarati-Sprache
Malaiisch
Pronunciation
[ɡudʒəˈɾɑːt̪i]
[baˈhasə malajˈsiə]
Ethnicity
Gujaratis
Malaysian people
Origin
15
c. 683 AD
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Austronesian Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
-
Branch
Indic
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Gujarati
Ancient Malay, Old Malay, Pre-Modern MalayClassical Malay,
Standard Forms
Modern Gujarati
Pluricentric Standard Malay
Language Position
2354
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Gujarati
Malaysian Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
gu
ms
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
guj
msa
ISO 639 2/B
guj
may
ISO 639 3
guj
zsm
ISO 639 6
guj
may
Glottocode
guja1252
stan1306
Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
-
Language Morphological Typology
-
Agglutinative