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Gujarati
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1 Countries

1.1 Countries

India

1.2 Total No. Of Countries

1
Rank: 14 (Overall)
About Bhojpuri Language
0 46

1.3 National Language

India

1.4 Second Language

Not spoken in any of the countries

1.5 Speaking Continents

Asia

1.6 Minority Language

Great Britain, Kenya, Malawi, Oman, Pakistan, Tanzania, Uganda, United States of America, Zambia

1.7 Regulated By

NA

1.8 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.

1.9 Similar To

Bengali Language

1.10 Derived From

Sanskrit Language

2 Alphabets

2.1 Alphabets in

2.2 Alphabets

47
Rank: 27 (Overall)
About Irish Language
18 247

2.3 Phonology

2.3.1 How Many Vowels

8
Rank: 5 (Overall)
About Hebrew Language
0 32

2.3.2 How Many Consonants

31
Rank: 21 (Overall)
About German Language
9 60

2.4 Scripts

Devanagari

2.5 Writing Direction

Left-To-Right, Horizontal

2.6 Hard to Learn

2.6.1 Language Levels

Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall)
About Bengali Language
2 12

2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn

18 weeks
Rank: 4 (Overall)
About Cebuano Language
3 88

3 Greetings

3.1 Hello

નમસ્તે (namaste)

3.2 Thank You

ધન્યવાદ (dhanvaad)

3.3 How Are You?

કેમ છો (kem cho?)

3.4 Good Night

શુભ રાત્રે (shub rātrē)

3.5 Good Evening

સાંજે સારી (sān̄jē sārī)

3.6 Good Afternoon

સારા બપોરે (sārā bapōrē)

3.7 Good Morning

સુ પ્રભાત (su prabhat)

3.8 Please

કૃપા કરીને(Kr̥pā karīnē)

3.9 Sorry

મન્ને મફ કરો (manne maaf karo)

3.10 Bye

બાય (Bāya)

3.11 I Love You

હું તને પ્રેમ કરુ છું (hūṃ tane prem karū chūṃ)

3.12 Excuse Me

માફ કરશો (Māpha karaśō)

4 Dialects

4.1 Dialect 1

Kathiyawadi

4.1.1 Where They Speak

India, Mauritius, Oman, Pakistan, Singapore, South Africa, Tanzania, United Kingdom, United States of America

4.1.2 How Many People Speak

Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall)
About Macedonian Language
1.5 960000000

4.2 Dialect 2

Kharwa

4.2.1 Where They Speak

India, Mauritius, Pakistan, Singapore, United Kingdom, United States of America

4.2.2 How Many People Speak

Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall)
About Dzongkha Language
700 80000000

4.3 Dialect 3

Not Available

4.3.1 Where They Speak

Not Available

4.3.2 How Many People Speak

Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall)
About Romanian Language
1400 96000000

4.4 Total No. Of Dialects

8
Rank: 8 (Overall)
About Sanskrit Language
0 188

5 How Many People Speak

5.1 How Many People Speak?

60.00 million
Rank: 27 (Overall)
About Abkhaz Language
0.13 1200

5.2 Speaking Population

0.74 %
Rank: 24 (Overall)
About Xhosa Language
0.11 89

5.3 Native Speakers

50.00 million
Rank: 22 (Overall)
About Abkhaz Language
0.13 873

5.3.1 Second Language Speakers

Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall)
About Finnish Language
0.01 400

5.3.2 Native Name

ગુજરાતી (gujarātī)

5.3.3 Alternative Names

Gujerathi, Gujerati, Gujrathi

5.3.4 French Name

goudjrati

5.3.5 German Name

Gujarati-Sprache

5.4 Pronunciation

[ɡudʒəˈɾɑːt̪i]

5.5 Ethnicity

Gujaratis

6 History

6.1 Origin

15

6.2 Language Family

Indo-European Family

6.2.1 Subgroup

Indo-Iranian

6.2.2 Branch

Indic

6.3 Language Forms

6.3.1 Early Forms

Old Gujarati

6.3.2 Standard Forms

Modern Gujarati

6.3.3 Language Position

23
Rank: 19 (Overall)
About Chinese Language
1 120

6.3.4 Signed Forms

Not Available

6.4 Scope

Individual

7 Code

7.1 ISO 639 1

gu

7.2 ISO 639 2

7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T

guj

7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B

guj

7.3 ISO 639 3

guj

7.4 ISO 639 6

Not Available

7.5 Glottocode

guja1252

7.6 Linguasphere

No data available

7.7 Types of Language

7.7.1 Language Type

Living

7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Object-Verb

7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology

Not Available

Know Alphabets in Gujarati

When you start learning to write in any language the Alphabets form a skeleton of any language. Let's talk About Gujarati Language, where you will learn the number of letter in Gujarati Alphabets. Every language has its own set of alphabets or characters so it is necessary to know alphabets in Gujarati. Gujarati phonology gives Gujarati vowels and Gujarati consonants. There are 8 vowels and 31 consonants in Gujarati language. Based upon the number of alphabet, vowels and consonants in the language we can check if Gujarati is one of the Most Difficult Languages. All about Gujarati language is given in detail in this section.

All Gujarati countries

Want to explore all Gujarati countries? About Gujarati language serves you with all Gujarati Speaking Countries. Countries that use Gujarati as official language are called as Gujarati countries.

  • Countries that use Gujarati as their National Language are: India.

Second language indicates to any language which the person learns in addition to first or native language.

  • Countries that use Gujarati as second language are: Gujarati is not spoken as second language in any of the countries.

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Learn Gujarati greetings

Languages are used by every human being to communicate. And communication begins with the greetings. First step to form any interaction is to learn Gujarati Greetings. Whenever you are travelling to new country where in you don’t know the local language of that country then you should at least be familiar with some greetings to start any formal or informal conversion. When we talk about Gujarati language, we are always interested in learning useful phrases in Gujarati language.Learn Gujarati greetings that can be used in formal situations:

  • Hello: નમસ્તે (namaste)
  • Thank you: ધન્યવાદ (dhanvaad)
  • Good Morning: સુ પ્રભાત (su prabhat)
  • Good Evening: સાંજે સારી (sān̄jē sārī)
  • Good Afternoon: સારા બપોરે (sārā bapōrē)

All Gujarati Language Codes

Get to know all Gujarati language codes here. There are several languages spoken all over the world where in most of the languages have alternate names which come from diverse sources. All Gujarati Language Codes are assigned with unique code. There is usually two or three letters code for each language. In most of the applications, these language codes are used where it is tedious to use language names.