Countries
India
Afganistan, Iran, Tajikistan
National Language
India
Afganistan, Azerbaijan, Iran, Iraq, Russia, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Great Britain, Kenya, Malawi, Oman, Pakistan, Tanzania, Uganda, United States of America, Zambia
Bahrain, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates
Regulated By
NA
Academy of Persian Language and Literature (فرهنگستان زبان و اد, Academy of Sciences of Afghanistan
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.
- In Iran, Parsi language is known as Farsi, while in Afghanistan Persian language is known as Dari.
- Persian language has borrowed many loanwords from the Arabic language.
Similar To
Bengali Language
Pashto and Balochi Languages
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
Arabic Language
Alphabets in
Gujarati-Alphabets.jpg#200
Persian-Alphabets.jpg#200
Scripts
Devanagari
Arabic
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Language Levels
Not Available
Hello
નમસ્તે (namaste)
سلام
Thank You
ધન્યવાદ (dhanvaad)
متشکرم
How Are You?
કેમ છો (kem cho?)
چطور هستید?
Good Night
શુભ રાત્રે (shub rātrē)
شب بخیر
Good Evening
સાંજે સારી (sān̄jē sārī)
عصر بخیر
Good Afternoon
સારા બપોરે (sārā bapōrē)
بعد از ظهر بخیر
Good Morning
સુ પ્રભાત (su prabhat)
صبح به خیر
Please
કૃપા કરીને(Kr̥pā karīnē)
لطفا
Sorry
મન્ને મફ કરો (manne maaf karo)
متاسف
I Love You
હું તને પ્રેમ કરુ છું (hūṃ tane prem karū chūṃ)
من شما را دوست دارم
Excuse Me
માફ કરશો (Māpha karaśō)
ببخشيد!
Dialect 1
Kathiyawadi
Western Persian
Where They Speak
India, Mauritius, Oman, Pakistan, Singapore, South Africa, Tanzania, United Kingdom, United States of America
Iran, Iraq
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 2
Kharwa
Dari Persian
Where They Speak
India, Mauritius, Pakistan, Singapore, United Kingdom, United States of America
Afganistan
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 3
Not Available
Tajik Persian
Where They Speak
Not Available
Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Native Name
ગુજરાતી (gujarātī)
فارسی
Alternative Names
Gujerathi, Gujerati, Gujrathi
New Persian, Parsi, Persian, West Persian
French Name
goudjrati
persan
German Name
Gujarati-Sprache
Persisch
Pronunciation
[ɡudʒəˈɾɑːt̪i]
[fɒːɾˈsiː]
Ethnicity
Gujaratis
Persian people
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Indo-Iranian
Early Forms
Old Gujarati
Old Persian and Middle Persian
Standard Forms
Modern Gujarati
Persian
Signed Forms
Not Available
Persian Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
Glottocode
guja1252
fars1254
Linguasphere
No data available
58-AAC-c
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
Synthetic
Gujarati and Persian Speaking population
Gujarati and Persian speaking population is one of the factors based on which Gujarati and Persian languages can be compared. The total count of Gujarati and Persian Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Gujarati language is 0.74 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Persian language is 0.99 %. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak Gujarati and Persian on Gujarati vs Persian where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Gujarati and Persian Language Codes
Gujarati and Persian language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Gujarati and Persian Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.