Countries
India
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan
National Language
India
China, Taiwan
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Republic of Brazil
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Great Britain, Kenya, Malawi, Oman, Pakistan, Tanzania, Uganda, United States of America, Zambia
Indonesia, Malaysia
Regulated By
NA
Chinese Language Standardization Council, National Commission on Language and Script Work, Promote Mandarin Council
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.
- Chinese language is tonal, since meaning of a word changes according to its tone.
- In Chinese language, there is no grammatical distinction between singular or plural, no declination of verbs according to tense, mood and aspect.
Similar To
Bengali Language
Not Available
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
Not Available
Alphabets in
Gujarati-Alphabets.jpg#200
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Scripts
Devanagari
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Language Levels
Not Available
Hello
નમસ્તે (namaste)
您好 (Nín hǎo)
Thank You
ધન્યવાદ (dhanvaad)
谢谢 (Xièxiè)
How Are You?
કેમ છો (kem cho?)
你好吗？ (Nǐ hǎo ma?)
Good Night
શુભ રાત્રે (shub rātrē)
晚安 (Wǎn'ān)
Good Evening
સાંજે સારી (sān̄jē sārī)
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)
Good Afternoon
સારા બપોરે (sārā bapōrē)
下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)
Good Morning
સુ પ્રભાત (su prabhat)
早安 (Zǎo ān)
Please
કૃપા કરીને(Kr̥pā karīnē)
请 (Qǐng)
Sorry
મન્ને મફ કરો (manne maaf karo)
遗憾 (Yíhàn)
Bye
બાય (Bāya)
再见 (Zàijiàn)
I Love You
હું તને પ્રેમ કરુ છું (hūṃ tane prem karū chūṃ)
我爱你 (Wǒ ài nǐ)
Excuse Me
માફ કરશો (Māpha karaśō)
劳驾 (Láojià)
Dialect 1
Kathiyawadi
Mandarin
Where They Speak
India, Mauritius, Oman, Pakistan, Singapore, South Africa, Tanzania, United Kingdom, United States of America
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Where They Speak
India, Mauritius, Pakistan, Singapore, United Kingdom, United States of America
China, United States of America
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 3
Not Available
Yue
Where They Speak
Not Available
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
Native Name
ગુજરાતી (gujarātī)
中文 (zhōngwén)
Alternative Names
Gujerathi, Gujerati, Gujrathi
Not Available
French Name
goudjrati
chinois
German Name
Gujarati-Sprache
Chinesisch
Pronunciation
[ɡudʒəˈɾɑːt̪i]
Not Available
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Not Available
Branch
Indic
Not Available
Early Forms
Old Gujarati
No early forms
Standard Forms
Modern Gujarati
Standard Chinese
Signed Forms
Not Available
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
Glottocode
guja1252
sini1245
Linguasphere
No data available
79-AAA
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
Analytic, Isolating
Gujarati and Chinese Greetings
People around the world use different languages to interact with each other. Even if we cannot communicate fluently in any language, it will always be beneficial to know about some of the common greetings or phrases from that language. This is where Gujarati and Chinese greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Gujarati and Chinese language. Gujarati word for "Hello" is નમસ્તે (namaste) or Chinese word for "Thank You" is 谢谢 (Xièxiè). Find more of such common Gujarati Greetings and Chinese Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Gujarati vs Chinese Difficulty
The Gujarati vs Chinese difficulty level basically depends on the number of Gujarati Alphabets and Chinese Alphabets. Also the number of vowels and consonants in the language plays an important role in deciding the difficulty level of that language. The important points to be considered when we compare Gujarati and Chinese are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Gujarati and Chinese, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Gujarati is 18 weeks while to learn Chinese time required is 88 weeks.
