Countries
India
  
Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Switzerland
  
National Language
India
  
Germany
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
North Dakota, United States of America
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Europe
  
Minority Language
Great Britain, Kenya, Malawi, Oman, Pakistan, Tanzania, Uganda, United States of America, Zambia
  
Czech Republic, Denmark, Former Soviet Union, France, Hungary, Italy, Namibia, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia
  
Regulated By
NA
  
Council for German Orthography
  
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.
  
- One of the large group of Indo-Germanic languages is German.
- The second most popular Germanic language spoken today behind English is German language.
  
Similar To
Bengali Language
  
Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and English Languages
  
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
  
Albanian Languages
  
Alphabets in
Gujarati-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
German-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)
  
hallo
  
Thank You
ધન્યવાદ (dhanvaad)
  
Danke
  
How Are You?
કેમ છો (kem cho?)
  
Wie geht es dir?
  
Good Night
શુભ રાત્રે (shub rātrē)
  
gute Nacht
  
Good Evening
સાંજે સારી (sān̄jē sārī)
  
guten Abend
  
Good Afternoon
સારા બપોરે (sārā bapōrē)
  
guten Tag
  
Good Morning
સુ પ્રભાત (su prabhat)
  
guten Morgen
  
Please
કૃપા કરીને(Kr̥pā karīnē)
  
bitte
  
Sorry
મન્ને મફ કરો (manne maaf karo)
  
Verzeihung
  
Bye
બાય (Bāya)
  
Tschüs
  
I Love You
હું તને પ્રેમ કરુ છું (hūṃ tane prem karū chūṃ)
  
Ich liebe dich
  
Excuse Me
માફ કરશો (Māpha karaśō)
  
Entschuldigung
  
Dialect 1
Kathiyawadi
  
Swiss German
  
Where They Speak
India, Mauritius, Oman, Pakistan, Singapore, South Africa, Tanzania, United Kingdom, United States of America
  
Switzerland
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
4,500,000.00
  
18
Dialect 2
Kharwa
  
Swabian German
  
Where They Speak
India, Mauritius, Pakistan, Singapore, United Kingdom, United States of America
  
Germany
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Not Available
  
Texas German
  
Where They Speak
Not Available
  
Texas
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
60.00 million
  
27
229.00 million
  
8
Native Speakers
50.00 million
  
22
101.00 million
  
10
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
128.00 million
  
5
Native Name
ગુજરાતી (gujarātī)
  
Deutsch
  
Alternative Names
Gujerathi, Gujerati, Gujrathi
  
Deutsch, Tedesco
  
French Name
goudjrati
  
allemand
  
German Name
Gujarati-Sprache
  
Deutsch
  
Pronunciation
[ɡudʒəˈɾɑːt̪i]
  
[ˈdɔʏtʃ]
  
Ethnicity
Gujaratis
  
Germans
  
Origin
15
  
6th Century AD
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
  
Germanic
  
Branch
Indic
  
Western
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old Gujarati
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Modern Gujarati
  
German Standard German, Swiss Standard German and Austrian Standard German
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Signed German
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
gu
  
de
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
guj
  
deu
  
ISO 639 2/B
guj
  
ger
  
ISO 639 3
guj
  
deu
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
deus
  
Glottocode
guja1252
  
high1287, uppe1397
  
Linguasphere
No data available
  
52-ACB–dl & -dm
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Subject-Object-Verb, Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Fusional, Synthetic