Countries
Ethiopia, Kenya
India
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
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National Language
Ethiopia
India
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Africa
Asia
Minority Language
Somalia
Great Britain, Kenya, Malawi, Oman, Pakistan, Tanzania, Uganda, United States of America, Zambia
Regulated By
-
-
Interesting Facts
- Oromo language is the third most spoken language in Africa.
- Oromo is most spoken language in Cushitic Family.
- 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
Somali Language
Bengali Language
Derived From
-
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3447
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
108
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2431
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Devanagari
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
56
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks18 weeks
3
88
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Hello
akkam
નમસ્તે (namaste)
Thank You
Galatoomi
ધન્યવાદ (dhanvaad)
How Are You?
Attam jirta/jirtu?
કેમ છો (kem cho?)
Good Night
Nagayattii buli
શુભ રાત્રે (shub rātrē)
Good Evening
Akkam waarite
સાંજે સારી (sān̄jē sārī)
Good Afternoon
Attam oolte / ooltan
સારા બપોરે (sārā bapōrē)
Good Morning
Attam bulte/bultan
સુ પ્રભાત (su prabhat)
Please
Maaloo
કૃપા કરીને(Kr̥pā karīnē)
Sorry
naa dhiisi
મન્ને મફ કરો (manne maaf karo)
Bye
Nagayattii!
બાય (Bāya)
I Love You
Sin jaaladha
હું તને પ્રેમ કરુ છું (hūṃ tane prem karū chūṃ)
Excuse Me
Maaloo na dabarsi
માફ કરશો (Māpha karaśō)
Dialect 1
Borana
Kathiyawadi
Where They Speak
Ethiopia, Kenya
India, Mauritius, Oman, Pakistan, Singapore, South Africa, Tanzania, United Kingdom, United States of America
How Many People Speak
4,000,000.0046,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Orma
Kharwa
Where They Speak
Kenya
India, Mauritius, Pakistan, Singapore, United Kingdom, United States of America
How Many People Speak
66,000.0056,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Wata
Surati
Where They Speak
Kenya
-
How Many People Speak
13,000.0056,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
178
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
25.00 million60.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.36 %0.74 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
24.00 million50.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
35.00 million55.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Afaan Oromo
ગુજરાતી (gujarātī)
Alternative Names
Afaan Oromoo
Gujerathi, Gujerati, Gujrathi
French Name
galla
goudjrati
German Name
Galla-Sprache
Gujarati-Sprache
Pronunciation
[ɔrɔmɔ]
[ɡudʒəˈɾɑːt̪i]
Ethnicity
Oromos
Gujaratis
Origin
16
15
Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Cushitic
Indo-Iranian
Branch
-
Indic
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Old Gujarati
Standard Forms
Afaan Oromo
Modern Gujarati
Language Position
9123
1
120
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Signed Forms
Oromo Sign Language
Signed Gujarati
Scope
Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 1
om
gu
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
orm
guj
ISO 639 2/B
orm
guj
ISO 639 3
orm
guj
ISO 639 6
orm
guj
Glottocode
nucl1736
guja1252
Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
-
-