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Gujarati
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1 Countries

1.1 Countries

India

1.2 Total No. Of Countries

1
Rank: 14 (Overall)
Bhojpuri
0 46

1.3 National Language

India

1.4 Second Language

Not spoken in any of the countries

1.5 Speaking Continents

Asia

1.6 Minority Language

Great Britain, Kenya, Malawi, Oman, Pakistan, Tanzania, Uganda, United States of America, Zambia

1.7 Regulated By

NA

1.8 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.

1.9 Similar To

Bengali Language

1.10 Derived From

Sanskrit Language

2 Alphabets

2.1 Alphabets in

2.2 Alphabets

47
Rank: 27 (Overall)
Irish
18 247

2.3 Phonology

2.3.1 How Many Vowels

8
Rank: 5 (Overall)
Hebrew
0 32

2.3.2 How Many Consonants

31
Rank: 21 (Overall)
German
9 60

2.4 Scripts

Devanagari

2.5 Writing Direction

Left-To-Right, Horizontal

2.6 Hard to Learn

2.6.1 Language Levels

Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall)
Bengali
2 12

2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn

18 weeks
Rank: 4 (Overall)
Cebuano
3 88

3 Greetings

3.1 Hello

નમસ્તે (namaste)

3.2 Thank You

ધન્યવાદ (dhanvaad)

3.3 How Are You?

કેમ છો (kem cho?)

3.4 Good Night

શુભ રાત્રે (shub rātrē)

3.5 Good Evening

સાંજે સારી (sān̄jē sārī)

3.6 Good Afternoon

સારા બપોરે (sārā bapōrē)

3.7 Good Morning

સુ પ્રભાત (su prabhat)

3.8 Please

કૃપા કરીને(Kr̥pā karīnē)

3.9 Sorry

મન્ને મફ કરો (manne maaf karo)

3.10 Bye

બાય (Bāya)

3.11 I Love You

હું તને પ્રેમ કરુ છું (hūṃ tane prem karū chūṃ)

3.12 Excuse Me

માફ કરશો (Māpha karaśō)

4 Dialects

4.1 Dialect 1

Kathiyawadi

4.1.1 Where They Speak

India, Mauritius, Oman, Pakistan, Singapore, South Africa, Tanzania, United Kingdom, United States of America

4.1.2 How Many People Speak

Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall)
Macedonian
1.5 960000000

4.2 Dialect 2

Kharwa

4.2.1 Where They Speak

India, Mauritius, Pakistan, Singapore, United Kingdom, United States of America

4.2.2 How Many People Speak

Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall)
Dzongkha
700 80000000

4.3 Dialect 3

Not Available

4.3.1 Where They Speak

Not Available

4.3.2 How Many People Speak

Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall)
Romanian
1400 96000000

4.4 Total No. Of Dialects

8
Rank: 8 (Overall)
Sanskrit
0 188

5 How Many People Speak

5.1 How Many People Speak?

60.00 million
Rank: 27 (Overall)
Abkhaz
0.13 1200

5.2 Speaking Population

0.74 %
Rank: 24 (Overall)
Xhosa
0.11 89

5.3 Native Speakers

50.00 million
Rank: 22 (Overall)
Abkhaz
0.13 873

5.3.1 Second Language Speakers

Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall)
Finnish
0.01 400

5.3.2 Native Name

ગુજરાતી (gujarātī)

5.3.3 Alternative Names

Gujerathi, Gujerati, Gujrathi

5.3.4 French Name

goudjrati

5.3.5 German Name

Gujarati-Sprache

5.4 Pronunciation

[ɡudʒəˈɾɑːt̪i]

5.5 Ethnicity

Gujaratis

6 History

6.1 Origin

15

6.2 Language Family

Indo-European Family

6.2.1 Subgroup

Indo-Iranian

6.2.2 Branch

Indic

6.3 Language Forms

6.3.1 Early Forms

Old Gujarati

6.3.2 Standard Forms

Modern Gujarati

6.3.3 Language Position

23
Rank: 19 (Overall)
Chinese
1 120

6.3.4 Signed Forms

Not Available

6.4 Scope

Individual

7 Code

7.1 ISO 639 1

gu

7.2 ISO 639 2

7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T

guj

7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B

guj

7.3 ISO 639 3

guj

7.4 ISO 639 6

Not Available

7.5 Glottocode

guja1252

7.6 Linguasphere

No data available

7.7 Types of Language

7.7.1 Language Type

Living

7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Object-Verb

7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology

Not Available

Origin of Gujarati language

In order to communicate with each other, the origin of language was the essential part. Various languages are spoken all over the world. Gujarati language is one of the Easiest Languages to Learn. The origin of Gujarati language states that it was put to use in 15. The history of Gujarati language reveals that the language is old and used since many years. Check out in brief about Gujarati Language History.The evolution of Gujarati language began with early forms such as Old Gujarati. Modern Gujarati is the standard form of Gujarati language and it is used in government centers. Know all About Gujarati Language.

Gujarati population

Gujarati population gives us the total count of number of people speaking Gujarati language. Gujarati language is spoken by 60.00 million people in the world. Most of the Gujarati population lies in the Gujarati Speaking Countries. Gujarati language is spoken as first language by 50.00 million people and no total count of people speaking Gujarati as second language. Get to know Gujarati speaking population in detail.

Gujarati writing system

There are numerous writing systems but most widely used scripts are Latin, Cyrillic and Arabic. Gujarati writing system decides the alphabets, vowels and consonants i.e. the written form of Gujarati language. Some languages share common writing systems. Devanagari script is used by Gujarati language. Learn more about . 

Information about Gujarati language

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