Countries
India
Rajastan, India
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
India
Rajastan, India
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Great Britain, Kenya, Malawi, Oman, Pakistan, Tanzania, Uganda, United States of America, Zambia
Nepal, Pakistan
Regulated By
-
-
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.
- Marwari language was historically written in Mahajani, which is version of the Landa script.
- Marwari language is written in Arabic Alphabets in Pakistan.
Similar To
Bengali Language
Gujarati, Haryanvi, Hindi and Punjabi Languages
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
Gujarati Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
4742
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
810
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3132
9
60
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Scripts
Devanagari
Devanagari
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
64
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
18 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
નમસ્તે (namaste)
khammaghani
Thank You
ધન્યવાદ (dhanvaad)
dhanyavaad
How Are You?
કેમ છો (kem cho?)
Kikan ho sa?
Good Night
શુભ રાત્રે (shub rātrē)
shubh raatri
Good Evening
સાંજે સારી (sān̄jē sārī)
Shubh Honjh
Good Afternoon
સારા બપોરે (sārā bapōrē)
Shubh Befar
Good Morning
સુ પ્રભાત (su prabhat)
Shubh Havar
Please
કૃપા કરીને(Kr̥pā karīnē)
kirpa
Sorry
મન્ને મફ કરો (manne maaf karo)
Maaf Karo
Bye
બાય (Bāya)
bye
I Love You
હું તને પ્રેમ કરુ છું (hūṃ tane prem karū chūṃ)
main tanne pyaar karoon
Excuse Me
માફ કરશો (Māpha karaśō)
maaf karo
Dialect 1
Kathiyawadi
Jogi
Where They Speak
India, Mauritius, Oman, Pakistan, Singapore, South Africa, Tanzania, United Kingdom, United States of America
India
How Many People Speak
46,000,000.0014,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Kharwa
Bagri
Where They Speak
India, Mauritius, Pakistan, Singapore, United Kingdom, United States of America
India
How Many People Speak
56,000,000.0014,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Surati
Dhundhari
Where They Speak
-
India
How Many People Speak
56,000,000.0013,000,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
88
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
60.00 million22.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.74 %0.21 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
50.00 million14.00 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
55.00 million13.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
ગુજરાતી (gujarātī)
Marwari
Alternative Names
Gujerathi, Gujerati, Gujrathi
Marvadi, Marvari, Marwadi, Rajasthani
French Name
goudjrati
marvari
German Name
Gujarati-Sprache
Marwari
Pronunciation
[ɡudʒəˈɾɑːt̪i]
[məˈrwɑːɾi]
Ethnicity
Gujaratis
Marwari or Marwadi
Origin
15
16
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
-
Branch
Indic
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Gujarati
No early forms
Standard Forms
Modern Gujarati
Marwari
Language Position
2372
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Gujarati
Indian Signing System (ISS)
Scope
Individual
Macrolanguage
ISO 639 1
gu
No data available
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
guj
mwr
ISO 639 2/B
guj
mwr
ISO 639 3
guj
mwr
ISO 639 6
guj
mwr
Glottocode
guja1252
raja1256
Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
-
Language Morphological Typology
-
-