Countries
India
  
Brunei, Malaysia, Singapore
  
National Language
India
  
Malaysia
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Indonesia
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Great Britain, Kenya, Malawi, Oman, Pakistan, Tanzania, Uganda, United States of America, Zambia
  
Thailand
  
Regulated By
NA
  
Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka
  
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 most politically powerful language historically is Malaysian Language.
- Malaysian earliest known inscriptions were found in South of Sumatra way back in 683-6 AD.
  
Similar To
Bengali Language
  
Indonesian Language
  
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
  
Tamil Language
  
Alphabets in
Gujarati-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Malaysian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Devanagari
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Not Available
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Language Levels
Not Available
  
Hello
નમસ્તે (namaste)
  
Hai
  
Thank You
ધન્યવાદ (dhanvaad)
  
terima kasih
  
How Are You?
કેમ છો (kem cho?)
  
Apa khabar?
  
Good Night
શુભ રાત્રે (shub rātrē)
  
Selamat Malam
  
Good Evening
સાંજે સારી (sān̄jē sārī)
  
Selamat Petang
  
Good Afternoon
સારા બપોરે (sārā bapōrē)
  
Selamat tengah hari
  
Good Morning
સુ પ્રભાત (su prabhat)
  
Selamat pagi
  
Please
કૃપા કરીને(Kr̥pā karīnē)
  
sila
  
Sorry
મન્ને મફ કરો (manne maaf karo)
  
maaf
  
Bye
બાય (Bāya)
  
Selamat tinggal
  
I Love You
હું તને પ્રેમ કરુ છું (hūṃ tane prem karū chūṃ)
  
Saya sayang kamu
  
Excuse Me
માફ કરશો (Māpha karaśō)
  
Maafkan saya
  
Dialect 1
Kathiyawadi
  
Bengkulu
  
Where They Speak
India, Mauritius, Oman, Pakistan, Singapore, South Africa, Tanzania, United Kingdom, United States of America
  
Bengkulu Province, Sumatra
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
1,600,000.00
  
25
Dialect 2
Kharwa
  
Pekal
  
Where They Speak
India, Mauritius, Pakistan, Singapore, United Kingdom, United States of America
  
Indonesia
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Not Available
  
Musi
  
Where They Speak
Not Available
  
Indonesia
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
3,100,000.00
  
11
How Many People Speak?
60.00 million
  
27
175.00 million
  
10
Native Speakers
50.00 million
  
22
77.00 million
  
12
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
98.00 million
  
8
Native Name
ગુજરાતી (gujarātī)
  
Bahasa melayu
  
Alternative Names
Gujerathi, Gujerati, Gujrathi
  
Not Available
  
French Name
goudjrati
  
malais
  
German Name
Gujarati-Sprache
  
Malaiisch
  
Pronunciation
[ɡudʒəˈɾɑːt̪i]
  
[baˈhasə malajˈsiə]
  
Ethnicity
Gujaratis
  
Not Available
  
Origin
15
  
c. 683 AD
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Austronesian Family
  
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
  
Not Available
  
Branch
Indic
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old Gujarati
  
Ancient Malay, Old Malay, Pre-Modern MalayClassical Malay,
  
Standard Forms
Modern Gujarati
  
Pluricentric Standard Malay
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Malaysian Sign Language
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
gu
  
ms
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
guj
  
msa
  
ISO 639 2/B
guj
  
may
  
ISO 639 3
guj
  
zsm
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
guja1252
  
stan1306
  
Linguasphere
No data available
  
No data available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Not Available
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Agglutinative
  
Gujarati and Malaysian 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 Malaysian greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Gujarati and Malaysian language. Gujarati word for "Hello" is નમસ્તે (namaste) or Malaysian word for "Thank You" is terima kasih. Find more of such common Gujarati Greetings and Malaysian Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Gujarati vs Malaysian Difficulty
The Gujarati vs Malaysian difficulty level basically depends on the number of Gujarati Alphabets and Malaysian 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 Malaysian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Gujarati and Malaysian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Gujarati is 18 weeks while to learn Malaysian time required is 36 weeks.