Gujarati medical interpreters
Real-time Gujarati medical interpretation for healthcare teams, on phones, tablets, and computers.
435,700 people in the U.S. speak Gujarati at home.
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, 2017-2021 American Community Survey 5-year estimates.
Darker states have more Gujarati speakers; shading is logarithmic, relative to the state with the most speakers.
| State | Speakers |
|---|---|
| New Jersey | 83,860 |
| Illinois | 47,260 |
| Texas | 39,840 |
| Georgia | 23,020 |
| Florida | 22,550 |
| Pennsylvania | 21,420 |
| North Carolina | 12,950 |
| Connecticut | 7,171 |
| Tennessee | 6,753 |
| South Carolina | 5,178 |
| Kentucky | 3,771 |
| Alabama | 3,001 |
| Delaware | 2,485 |
| Arkansas | 1,097 |
The 10 states with the most Gujarati speakers
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.
Meet Opalite.
Real-time AI medical interpretation in 150+ languages and dialects, connecting providers and patients in seconds.
- Works on the devices care teams already carry: phones, tablets, computers, and telehealth platforms
- Integrates with all EHRs
- Built for HIPAA-compliant healthcare
- SOC 2 Type II attested security controls
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.
States where Gujarati is a top 15 non-English language
- Alabama
- Arkansas
- Connecticut
- Delaware
- Florida
- Georgia
- Illinois
- Kentucky
- New Jersey
- North Carolina
- Pennsylvania
- South Carolina
- Tennessee
- Texas
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