Countries
India
  
European Union, Finland
  
National Language
India
  
Estonia, Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Estonia
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Asia, Europe
  
Minority Language
Great Britain, Kenya, Malawi, Oman, Pakistan, Tanzania, Uganda, United States of America, Zambia
  
Republic of Karelia, Russian Federation, Sweden
  
Regulated By
NA
  
Institute for the Languages of Finland
  
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.
  
- Finnish language has adopted many words from Iranian, Turkic, Baltic, Germanic and Slavic languages.
- In Finnish language, there are no articles or grammatical gender.
  
Similar To
Bengali Language
  
Estonian and Livonian Languages
  
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Gujarati-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Finnish-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Devanagari
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Language Levels
Not Available
  
Hello
નમસ્તે (namaste)
  
Moi
  
Thank You
ધન્યવાદ (dhanvaad)
  
Kiitos
  
How Are You?
કેમ છો (kem cho?)
  
Mitä kuuluu?
  
Good Night
શુભ રાત્રે (shub rātrē)
  
hyvää yötä
  
Good Evening
સાંજે સારી (sān̄jē sārī)
  
Hyvää iltaa
  
Good Afternoon
સારા બપોરે (sārā bapōrē)
  
Hyvää iltapäivää
  
Good Morning
સુ પ્રભાત (su prabhat)
  
Hyvää huomenta
  
Please
કૃપા કરીને(Kr̥pā karīnē)
  
haluta
  
Sorry
મન્ને મફ કરો (manne maaf karo)
  
Anteeksi
  
Bye
બાય (Bāya)
  
Heippa
  
I Love You
હું તને પ્રેમ કરુ છું (hūṃ tane prem karū chūṃ)
  
Minä rakastan sinua
  
Excuse Me
માફ કરશો (Māpha karaśō)
  
Anteeksi
  
Dialect 1
Kathiyawadi
  
Colloquial Finnish
  
Where They Speak
India, Mauritius, Oman, Pakistan, Singapore, South Africa, Tanzania, United Kingdom, United States of America
  
Finland
  
Dialect 2
Kharwa
  
Rauma
  
Where They Speak
India, Mauritius, Pakistan, Singapore, United Kingdom, United States of America
  
Finland, Rauma
  
Dialect 3
Not Available
  
Meänkieli
  
Where They Speak
Not Available
  
Finland, Sweden
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
60.00 million
  
27
5.40 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
50.00 million
  
22
5.40 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
0.01 million
  
39
Native Name
ગુજરાતી (gujarātī)
  
suomi / suomen kieli
  
Alternative Names
Gujerathi, Gujerati, Gujrathi
  
Suomi
  
French Name
goudjrati
  
finnois
  
German Name
Gujarati-Sprache
  
Finnisch
  
Pronunciation
[ɡudʒəˈɾɑːt̪i]
  
[ˈsuomi]
  
Ethnicity
Gujaratis
  
ethnic Finns
  
Origin
15
  
1543
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Uralic Family
  
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
  
Finno-Ugric
  
Branch
Indic
  
Finnic
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old Gujarati
  
Proto-Finnic language
  
Standard Forms
Modern Gujarati
  
standard Finnish
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Signed Finnish
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
gu
  
fi
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
guj
  
fin
  
ISO 639 2/B
guj
  
fin
  
ISO 639 3
guj
  
fin
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
guja1252
  
finn1318
  
Linguasphere
No data available
  
No data available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Agglutinative, Synthetic