Countries
India
African Union, Democratic Republic of the Congo, East African Community, Kenya
Total No. Of Countries
14
0
46
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National Language
India
Burundi, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, South Sudan, Tanzania
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Africa
Minority Language
Great Britain, Kenya, Malawi, Oman, Pakistan, Tanzania, Uganda, United States of America, Zambia
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
-
Chama cha Kiswahili cha Taifa (Kenya)
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.
- Swahili language has borrowed many words from Arabic language.
- The oldest written scripts in swahili language were found in 18th century.
Similar To
Bengali Language
Burundi, Rwanda, Malawi Languages
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
Arabic Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
4724
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
85
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3121
9
60
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Scripts
Devanagari
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
63
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
18 weeks36 weeks
3
88
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Hello
નમસ્તે (namaste)
Habari
Thank You
ધન્યવાદ (dhanvaad)
Asante
How Are You?
કેમ છો (kem cho?)
Habari gani?
Good Night
શુભ રાત્રે (shub rātrē)
Usiku mwema
Good Evening
સાંજે સારી (sān̄jē sārī)
Habari za jioni
Good Afternoon
સારા બપોરે (sārā bapōrē)
nzuri Alasiri
Good Morning
સુ પ્રભાત (su prabhat)
Habari za asubuhi
Please
કૃપા કરીને(Kr̥pā karīnē)
tafadhali
Sorry
મન્ને મફ કરો (manne maaf karo)
pole
Bye
બાય (Bāya)
bye
I Love You
હું તને પ્રેમ કરુ છું (hūṃ tane prem karū chūṃ)
nakupenda
Excuse Me
માફ કરશો (Māpha karaśō)
Samahani
Dialect 1
Kathiyawadi
Kiunguja
Where They Speak
India, Mauritius, Oman, Pakistan, Singapore, South Africa, Tanzania, United Kingdom, United States of America
Zanzibar island
How Many People Speak
46,000,000.0075,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Kharwa
Kimrima
Where They Speak
India, Mauritius, Pakistan, Singapore, United Kingdom, United States of America
Dar es Salaam
How Many People Speak
56,000,000.0075,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Surati
Kimgao
Where They Speak
-
Kilwa
How Many People Speak
56,000,000.0075,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
812
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
60.00 million150.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.74 %0.42 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
50.00 million15.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
55.00 million75.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
ગુજરાતી (gujarātī)
Kiswahili
Alternative Names
Gujerathi, Gujerati, Gujrathi
Kisuaheli, Kiswahili
French Name
goudjrati
swahili
German Name
Gujarati-Sprache
Swahili
Pronunciation
[ɡudʒəˈɾɑːt̪i]
[swaˈhili]
Ethnicity
Gujaratis
Swahili people or Waswahili
Origin
15
6th century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Niger-Congo Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Benue-Congo
Branch
Indic
Bantu
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Gujarati
No early forms
Standard Forms
Modern Gujarati
Swahili
Language Position
2321
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Gujarati
Swahili Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual, Macrolanguage
ISO 639 1
gu
sw
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
guj
swa
ISO 639 2/B
guj
swa
ISO 639 3
guj
swa
ISO 639 6
guj
swa
Glottocode
guja1252
swah1254
Linguasphere
No data available
99-AUS-m
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
-
Language Morphological Typology
-
-