Countries
India
India, Pakistan
Total No. Of Countries
12
0
46
👆🏻
National Language
India
Pakistan
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Pakistan
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia, Oceania
Minority Language
Great Britain, Kenya, Malawi, Oman, Pakistan, Tanzania, Uganda, United States of America, Zambia
India
Regulated By
-
National Council for Promotion of Urdu Language, India, National Language Authority, Pakistan
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.
- Urdu is a language of beauty and grace, that adds meaning to prose and charm to poetry.
- Different languages such as Arabic, Persian and Turkish gave birth and richness to Urdu.
Similar To
Bengali Language
Arabic and Hindi Languages
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
Ghaznavid Persian Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
4752
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
810
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
3140
9
60
👆🏻
Scripts
Devanagari
Arabic
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
64
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
18 weeks44 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
નમસ્તે (namaste)
خوش آمديد
Thank You
ધન્યવાદ (dhanvaad)
آپ کا شکریہ
How Are You?
કેમ છો (kem cho?)
آپ کیسے ہیں؟
Good Night
શુભ રાત્રે (shub rātrē)
گڈ نائٹ
Good Evening
સાંજે સારી (sān̄jē sārī)
سلام علیکم
Good Afternoon
સારા બપોરે (sārā bapōrē)
گڈ آفٹر نون
Good Morning
સુ પ્રભાત (su prabhat)
گڈ مارننگ
Please
કૃપા કરીને(Kr̥pā karīnē)
براہ مہربانی
Sorry
મન્ને મફ કરો (manne maaf karo)
معاف کرنا
Bye
બાય (Bāya)
الوداع
I Love You
હું તને પ્રેમ કરુ છું (hūṃ tane prem karū chūṃ)
مجھے تم سے محبت
Excuse Me
માફ કરશો (Māpha karaśō)
معاف کیجئے گا
Dialect 1
Kathiyawadi
Dakhini
Where They Speak
India, Mauritius, Oman, Pakistan, Singapore, South Africa, Tanzania, United Kingdom, United States of America
India
How Many People Speak
46,000,000.0011,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Kharwa
Hyderabadi Urdu
Where They Speak
India, Mauritius, Pakistan, Singapore, United Kingdom, United States of America
India
How Many People Speak
56,000,000.0069,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Surati
Rekhta
Where They Speak
-
South Asia
How Many People Speak
56,000,000.0069,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
83
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
60.00 million104.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.74 %0.99 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
50.00 million61.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
55.00 million43.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
ગુજરાતી (gujarātī)
اُردُو
Alternative Names
Gujerathi, Gujerati, Gujrathi
Bihari
French Name
goudjrati
ourdou
German Name
Gujarati-Sprache
Urdu
Pronunciation
[ɡudʒəˈɾɑːt̪i]
[ˈʊrd̪u]
Ethnicity
Gujaratis
Urdu-speaking people
Origin
15
12th Century CE
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Indo-Iranian
Branch
Indic
Indic
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Gujarati
No early forms
Standard Forms
Modern Gujarati
Modern Standard Urdu
Language Position
2320
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Gujarati
Signed Urdu
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
gu
ur
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
guj
urd
ISO 639 2/B
guj
urd
ISO 639 3
guj
urd
ISO 639 6
guj
urd
Glottocode
guja1252
urdu1245
Linguasphere
No data available
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Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
-
Language Morphological Typology
-
Fusional