Countries
India
  
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan
  
National Language
India
  
China, Taiwan
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Republic of Brazil
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Great Britain, Kenya, Malawi, Oman, Pakistan, Tanzania, Uganda, United States of America, Zambia
  
Indonesia, Malaysia
  
Regulated By
NA
  
Chinese Language Standardization Council, National Commission on Language and Script Work, Promote Mandarin Council
  
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.
  
- Chinese language is tonal, since meaning of a word changes according to its tone.
- In Chinese language, there is no grammatical distinction between singular or plural, no declination of verbs according to tense, mood and aspect.
  
Similar To
Bengali Language
  
Not Available
  
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Gujarati-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Chinese.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Devanagari
  
Chinese Characters and derivatives
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Language Levels
Not Available
  
Hello
નમસ્તે (namaste)
  
您好 (Nín hǎo)
  
Thank You
ધન્યવાદ (dhanvaad)
  
谢谢 (Xièxiè)
  
How Are You?
કેમ છો (kem cho?)
  
你好吗? (Nǐ hǎo ma?)
  
Good Night
શુભ રાત્રે (shub rātrē)
  
晚安 (Wǎn'ān)
  
Good Evening
સાંજે સારી (sān̄jē sārī)
  
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)
  
Good Afternoon
સારા બપોરે (sārā bapōrē)
  
下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)
  
Good Morning
સુ પ્રભાત (su prabhat)
  
早安 (Zǎo ān)
  
Please
કૃપા કરીને(Kr̥pā karīnē)
  
请 (Qǐng)
  
Sorry
મન્ને મફ કરો (manne maaf karo)
  
遗憾 (Yíhàn)
  
Bye
બાય (Bāya)
  
再见 (Zàijiàn)
  
I Love You
હું તને પ્રેમ કરુ છું (hūṃ tane prem karū chūṃ)
  
我爱你 (Wǒ ài nǐ)
  
Excuse Me
માફ કરશો (Māpha karaśō)
  
劳驾 (Láojià)
  
Dialect 1
Kathiyawadi
  
Mandarin
  
Where They Speak
India, Mauritius, Oman, Pakistan, Singapore, South Africa, Tanzania, United Kingdom, United States of America
  
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
960,000,000.00
  
1
Dialect 2
Kharwa
  
Wu
  
Where They Speak
India, Mauritius, Pakistan, Singapore, United Kingdom, United States of America
  
China, United States of America
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
80,000,000.00
  
1
Dialect 3
Not Available
  
Yue
  
Where They Speak
Not Available
  
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
60,000,000.00
  
2
How Many People Speak?
60.00 million
  
27
1,051.00 million
  
2
Native Speakers
50.00 million
  
22
873.00 million
  
1
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
178.00 million
  
3
Native Name
ગુજરાતી (gujarātī)
  
中文 (zhōngwén)
  
Alternative Names
Gujerathi, Gujerati, Gujrathi
  
Not Available
  
French Name
goudjrati
  
chinois
  
German Name
Gujarati-Sprache
  
Chinesisch
  
Pronunciation
[ɡudʒəˈɾɑːt̪i]
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Gujaratis
  
Han
  
Origin
15
  
1250 BC
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Sino-Tibetan Family
  
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
  
Not Available
  
Branch
Indic
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old Gujarati
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Modern Gujarati
  
Standard Chinese
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
gu
  
zh
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
guj
  
zho
  
ISO 639 2/B
guj
  
chi
  
ISO 639 3
guj
  
zho
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
guja1252
  
sini1245
  
Linguasphere
No data available
  
79-AAA
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Analytic, Isolating