Countries
India
  
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
  
National Language
India
  
Russia
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Afganistan
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Asia, Europe
  
Minority Language
Great Britain, Kenya, Malawi, Oman, Pakistan, Tanzania, Uganda, United States of America, Zambia
  
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, Poland, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
  
Regulated By
NA
  
Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
  
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 Russian language, the words are not pronounced as they are written.
- In Russian language, there are only 200,000 words out of which only few words are used and due to this many words have more than one meaning.
  
Similar To
Bengali Language
  
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages
  
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
  
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary
  
Alphabets in
Gujarati-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Russian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Devanagari
  
Cyrillic
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Language Levels
Not Available
  
Hello
નમસ્તે (namaste)
  
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)
  
Thank You
ધન્યવાદ (dhanvaad)
  
спасибо(spasibo)
  
How Are You?
કેમ છો (kem cho?)
  
Как дела? (Kak dela?)
  
Good Night
શુભ રાત્રે (shub rātrē)
  
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)
  
Good Evening
સાંજે સારી (sān̄jē sārī)
  
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)
  
Good Afternoon
સારા બપોરે (sārā bapōrē)
  
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')
  
Good Morning
સુ પ્રભાત (su prabhat)
  
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)
  
Please
કૃપા કરીને(Kr̥pā karīnē)
  
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)
  
Sorry
મન્ને મફ કરો (manne maaf karo)
  
Извините(Izvinite)
  
Bye
બાય (Bāya)
  
до свидания(do svidaniya)
  
I Love You
હું તને પ્રેમ કરુ છું (hūṃ tane prem karū chūṃ)
  
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)
  
Excuse Me
માફ કરશો (Māpha karaśō)
  
извините(izvinite)
  
Dialect 1
Kathiyawadi
  
Doukhobor Russian
  
Where They Speak
India, Mauritius, Oman, Pakistan, Singapore, South Africa, Tanzania, United Kingdom, United States of America
  
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Kharwa
  
Olonets
  
Where They Speak
India, Mauritius, Pakistan, Singapore, United Kingdom, United States of America
  
Olonets
  
Dialect 3
Not Available
  
Novgorod
  
Where They Speak
Not Available
  
Novgorod
  
How Many People Speak?
60.00 million
  
27
276.00 million
  
6
Native Speakers
50.00 million
  
22
166.00 million
  
8
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
110.00 million
  
7
Native Name
ગુજરાતી (gujarātī)
  
Русский
  
Alternative Names
Gujerathi, Gujerati, Gujrathi
  
Russki
  
French Name
goudjrati
  
russe
  
German Name
Gujarati-Sprache
  
Russisch
  
Pronunciation
[ɡudʒəˈɾɑːt̪i]
  
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
  
Ethnicity
Gujaratis
  
Russians
  
Origin
15
  
1000 AD
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
  
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
  
Slavic
  
Branch
Indic
  
Eastern
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old Gujarati
  
Old East Slavic
  
Standard Forms
Modern Gujarati
  
Standard Russian
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Signed Russian
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
gu
  
ru
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
guj
  
rus
  
ISO 639 2/B
guj
  
rus
  
ISO 639 3
guj
  
rus
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
guja1252
  
russ1263
  
Linguasphere
No data available
  
53-AAA-ea
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Fusional, Synthetic