Countries
Fiji, India
India
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
👆🏻
National Language
India
India
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia, Oceania
Asia
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Great Britain, Kenya, Malawi, Oman, Pakistan, Tanzania, Uganda, United States of America, Zambia
Regulated By
Central Hindi Directorate
-
Interesting Facts
- In Hindi language, nouns are followed by post positions.
- In Hindi, there are many familiar words in English which are in Hindi or of Hindi origin.
- 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.
Similar To
Urdu
Bengali Language
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
4447
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
118
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
3331
9
60
👆🏻
Scripts
Devanagari
Devanagari
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
46
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks18 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
नमस्ते (Namastē)
નમસ્તે (namaste)
Thank You
धन्यवाद (Dhan'yavāda)
ધન્યવાદ (dhanvaad)
How Are You?
तुम कैसे हो? (Tuma kaisē hō?)
કેમ છો (kem cho?)
Good Night
शुभरात्रि (Śubharātri)
શુભ રાત્રે (shub rātrē)
Good Evening
शुभ सन्ध्या (shubh sandhya)
સાંજે સારી (sān̄jē sārī)
Good Afternoon
दोपहर के बाद नमस्कार (dopahar ke bad namaskar)
સારા બપોરે (sārā bapōrē)
Good Morning
सुप्रभात (Suprabhāta)
સુ પ્રભાત (su prabhat)
Please
कृपया (Kr̥payā)
કૃપા કરીને(Kr̥pā karīnē)
Sorry
खेद (Khēda)
મન્ને મફ કરો (manne maaf karo)
Bye
अलविदा (Alavidā)
બાય (Bāya)
I Love You
मैं आपसे प्यार करता (Maiṁ āpasē pyāra karatā)
હું તને પ્રેમ કરુ છું (hūṃ tane prem karū chūṃ)
Excuse Me
मुझे माफ करें (Mujhē māpha karēṁ)
માફ કરશો (Māpha karaśō)
Dialect 1
Khariboli
Kathiyawadi
Where They Speak
Delhi, Haryana, Western Uttar Pradesh
India, Mauritius, Oman, Pakistan, Singapore, South Africa, Tanzania, United Kingdom, United States of America
How Many People Speak
240,000,000.0046,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Marwari
Kharwa
Where They Speak
Gujarat, Haryana, Rajasthan, Sindh
India, Mauritius, Pakistan, Singapore, United Kingdom, United States of America
How Many People Speak
22,000,000.0056,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Bundeli
Surati
Where They Speak
Bundelkhand
-
How Many People Speak
20,000,000.0056,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
218
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
380.00 million60.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
4.70 %0.74 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
260.00 million50.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
120.00 million55.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
हिन्दी
ગુજરાતી (gujarātī)
Alternative Names
Khadi Boli, Khari Boli
Gujerathi, Gujerati, Gujrathi
French Name
hindi
goudjrati
German Name
Hindi
Gujarati-Sprache
Pronunciation
[ˈmaːnək ˈɦin̪d̪iː]
[ɡudʒəˈɾɑːt̪i]
Ethnicity
Hindustani people
Gujaratis
Origin
7th Century
15
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Indo-Iranian
Branch
Indic
Indic
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Old Gujarati
Standard Forms
Standard Hindi
Modern Gujarati
Language Position
523
1
120
👆🏻
Signed Forms
Indian Signing System
Signed Gujarati
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
hi
gu
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
hin
guj
ISO 639 2/B
hin
guj
ISO 639 3
hin
guj
ISO 639 6
hins
guj
Glottocode
hind1269
guja1252
Linguasphere
59-AAF-qf
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
-