Countries
Japan
  
India
  
National Language
Japan
  
India
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Asia, Pacific
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Palau
  
Great Britain, Kenya, Malawi, Oman, Pakistan, Tanzania, Uganda, United States of America, Zambia
  
Regulated By
Agency for Cultural Affairs (文化庁) at the Ministry of Education
  
NA
  
Interesting Facts
- In Japanese Language, there are 4 different ways to address people: kun, chan, san and sama.
- There are many words in Japanese language which end with vowel letter, which determines the structure and rhythm of Japanese.
  
- 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.
  
Similar To
Korean Language
  
Bengali Language
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Sanskrit Language
  
Alphabets in
Japanese-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Gujarati-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Kana
  
Devanagari
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Language Levels
Not Available
  
Hello
こんにちは (Kon'nichiwa)
  
નમસ્તે (namaste)
  
Thank You
ありがとう (Arigatō)
  
ધન્યવાદ (dhanvaad)
  
How Are You?
お元気ですか (O genki desu ka?)
  
કેમ છો (kem cho?)
  
Good Night
おやすみなさい (Oyasuminasai)
  
શુભ રાત્રે (shub rātrē)
  
Good Evening
こんばんは (Konbanwa)
  
સાંજે સારી (sān̄jē sārī)
  
Good Afternoon
こんにちは (Konnichiwa!)
  
સારા બપોરે (sārā bapōrē)
  
Good Morning
おはよう (Ohayō)
  
સુ પ્રભાત (su prabhat)
  
Please
お願いします (Onegaishimasu)
  
કૃપા કરીને(Kr̥pā karīnē)
  
Sorry
ごめんなさい (Gomen'nasai)
  
મન્ને મફ કરો (manne maaf karo)
  
Bye
さようなら (Sayōnara)
  
બાય (Bāya)
  
I Love You
愛しています (Aishiteimasu)
  
હું તને પ્રેમ કરુ છું (hūṃ tane prem karū chūṃ)
  
Excuse Me
すみません (Sumimasen)
  
માફ કરશો (Māpha karaśō)
  
Dialect 1
Sanuki
  
Kathiyawadi
  
Where They Speak
Kagawa
  
India, Mauritius, Oman, Pakistan, Singapore, South Africa, Tanzania, United Kingdom, United States of America
  
How Many People Speak
1,000,000.00
  
28
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Hakata
  
Kharwa
  
Where They Speak
Fukuoka
  
India, Mauritius, Pakistan, Singapore, United Kingdom, United States of America
  
Dialect 3
Kansai
  
Not Available
  
Where They Speak
kansai
  
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
128.00 million
  
14
60.00 million
  
27
Native Speakers
128.00 million
  
9
50.00 million
  
22
Native Name
日本語
  
ગુજરાતી (gujarātī)
  
Alternative Names
Not Available
  
Gujerathi, Gujerati, Gujrathi
  
French Name
japonais
  
goudjrati
  
German Name
Japanisch
  
Gujarati-Sprache
  
Pronunciation
/nihoɴɡo/: [nihõŋɡo], [nihõŋŋo]
  
[ɡudʒəˈɾɑːt̪i]
  
Ethnicity
Japanese (Yamato)
  
Gujaratis
  
Origin
1185
  
15
  
Language Family
Japonic Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
Indo-Iranian
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Indic
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old Japanese, Early Middle Japanese, Late Middle Japanese and Early Modern Japanese
  
Old Gujarati
  
Standard Forms
Japanese
  
Modern Gujarati
  
Signed Forms
Signed Japanese
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
ja
  
gu
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
jpn
  
guj
  
ISO 639 2/B
jpn
  
guj
  
ISO 639 3
jpn
  
guj
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
nucl1643
  
guja1252
  
Linguasphere
45-CAA-a
  
No data available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative, Synthetic
  
Not Available