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Gujarati medical interpreters

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435,700 people in the U.S. speak Gujarati at home.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, 2017-2021 American Community Survey 5-year estimates.

Gujarati speakers by state
StateSpeakers
New Jersey83,860
Illinois47,260
Texas39,840
Georgia23,020
Florida22,550
Pennsylvania21,420
North Carolina12,950
Connecticut7,171
Tennessee6,753
South Carolina5,178
Kentucky3,771
Alabama3,001
Delaware2,485
Arkansas1,097

State counts reflect the 15 most reported non-English languages in each state’s ACS table. States where Gujarati falls outside the top 15 are shown without shading; the national total includes every state.

141,600

speakers of Gujarati speak English less than “very well”: the federal threshold for needing language assistance.

32%

of Gujarati speakers in the U.S. meet that limited-English definition.

83,860

people speak Gujarati at home in New Jersey alone.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, 2017-2021 American Community Survey 5-year estimates.

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  • Works on the devices care teams already carry: phones, tablets, computers, and telehealth platforms
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What to know when interpreting Gujarati

Every language has grammar that an interpreter must handle correctly. These are the Gujarati features that the fewest other languages in the world share, according to the World Atlas of Language Structures (WALS).

Indo-European · Indic · Eurasia

5.5%

of the world’s languages share this trait

Gujarati places “not” between the object and a sentence-final verb, so an interpreter hears everything else before learning the statement was negative.

WALS 144A · Position of Negative Word With Respect to Subject, Object, and Verb · SONegV

8.2%

of the world’s languages share this trait

Gujarati stress lands on the syllable with the most prominent vowel rather than on a fixed position, so an interpreter must hear the word’s shape to place stress correctly.

WALS 16A · Weight Factors in Weight-Sensitive Stress Systems · Prominence

11.2%

of the world’s languages share this trait

Gujarati places “not” as a separate word just before a sentence-final verb, so the denial arrives late and an interpreter must hold the whole sentence before relaying it.

WALS 144L · The Position of Negative Morphemes in SOV Languages · SONegV

How Gujarati is structured

Word ordersubject, object and verb
SOV
Adpositionsprepositions or postpositions
Postpositions
Adjectivebefore or after the noun
Adjective-Noun
Demonstrativethis and that, before or after
Demonstrative-Noun
Numeralnumber before or after the noun
Numeral-Noun
Genitivepossessor before or after
Not coded
Relative clausebefore or after the noun
Not coded
Morphologyprefixing or suffixing
Not coded
Tonewhether pitch changes meaning
Not coded
Casesnumber of noun cases
Not coded
Gendersnumber of noun genders
Not coded
Classifierscounting words for nouns
Not coded

Source: Dryer, Matthew S. & Haspelmath, Martin (eds.) 2013. WALS Online, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig. Gujarati entry: wals.info GUJ. Licensed under CC BY 4.0. Values are reproduced as WALS codes them; each links to its datapoint. The clinical readings are Opalite’s own inferences and are not part of WALS.

FAQs about Gujarati medical interpreters

Three states hold 39% of the nation’s Gujarati speakers, and Gujarati ranks in the published top-15 language tables of 14 states.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, 2017-2021 American Community Survey 5-year estimates.

Opalite uses the same underlying interpretation techniques for Gujarati as it does for Spanish, Mandarin, and Cantonese. In Opalite’s published validation study, those three languages were evaluated in clinical conversations, with over 90% fewer errors than certified medical interpreters across the conversations studied.

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