Countries
India
  
Philippines
  
National Language
India
  
Philippines
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Philippines
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Great Britain, Kenya, Malawi, Oman, Pakistan, Tanzania, Uganda, United States of America, Zambia
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Regulated By
NA
  
Visayan Academy of Arts and Letters
  
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.
  
- About one-fifth of the population of the philippines speak cebuano and are second largest ethnolinguistic group in the country.
- Cebuano contains many words of Spanish origin.
  
Similar To
Bengali Language
  
Hiligaynon Language
  
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
  
Island of Cebu
  
Alphabets in
Gujarati-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Cebuano-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Devanagari
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Not Available
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Language Levels
Not Available
  
Hello
નમસ્તે (namaste)
  
Hoy
  
Thank You
ધન્યવાદ (dhanvaad)
  
Salamat
  
How Are You?
કેમ છો (kem cho?)
  
Kumusta man ka?
  
Good Night
શુભ રાત્રે (shub rātrē)
  
Maayong Gabii
  
Good Evening
સાંજે સારી (sān̄jē sārī)
  
Maayong Gabii
  
Good Afternoon
સારા બપોરે (sārā bapōrē)
  
Maayong Hapon
  
Good Morning
સુ પ્રભાત (su prabhat)
  
Maayong Buntag
  
Please
કૃપા કરીને(Kr̥pā karīnē)
  
Palihug
  
Sorry
મન્ને મફ કરો (manne maaf karo)
  
Ikasubo ko
  
Bye
બાય (Bāya)
  
Babay
  
I Love You
હું તને પ્રેમ કરુ છું (hūṃ tane prem karū chūṃ)
  
Gihigugma ko ikaw
  
Excuse Me
માફ કરશો (Māpha karaśō)
  
Ekskyus mi
  
Dialect 1
Kathiyawadi
  
Boholano
  
Where They Speak
India, Mauritius, Oman, Pakistan, Singapore, South Africa, Tanzania, United Kingdom, United States of America
  
Bohol
  
Dialect 2
Kharwa
  
Southern Kana
  
Where They Speak
India, Mauritius, Pakistan, Singapore, United Kingdom, United States of America
  
southern Leyte
  
Dialect 3
Not Available
  
North Kana
  
Where They Speak
Not Available
  
northern part of Leyte
  
How Many People Speak?
60.00 million
  
27
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
50.00 million
  
22
21.00 million
  
36
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
14.50 million
  
19
Native Name
ગુજરાતી (gujarātī)
  
Visayan
  
Alternative Names
Gujerathi, Gujerati, Gujrathi
  
Binisaya, Bisayan, Sebuano, Sugbuanon, Sugbuhanon, Visayan
  
French Name
goudjrati
  
cebuano
  
German Name
Gujarati-Sprache
  
Cebuano
  
Pronunciation
[ɡudʒəˈɾɑːt̪i]
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Gujaratis
  
Cebuano people
  
Origin
15
  
16th century
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Austronesian Family
  
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
  
Not Available
  
Branch
Indic
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old Gujarati
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Modern Gujarati
  
Standard Cebuano
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
gu
  
No data Available
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
guj
  
ceb
  
ISO 639 2/B
guj
  
ceb
  
ISO 639 3
guj
  
ceb
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
guja1252
  
cebu1242
  
Linguasphere
No data available
  
No data Available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Verb-Subject-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Not Available