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1 Countries
1.1 Countries
India, Nepal
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
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1.3 National Language
Nepal
1.4 Second Language
Republic of Brazil
1.5 Speaking Continents
Asia
1.6 Minority Language
People's Republic of China
1.7 Regulated By
Language Academy of Nepal
1.8 Interesting Facts
  • Before the term "Nepali" was coined, historically the language was first called the Khas language, Gorkhali or Gukhali.
  • Nepali has borrowed many loanwords from neighboring Tibeto-Burmese languages.
1.9 Similar To
Hindi
1.10 Derived From
Sanskrit Language
2 Alphabets
2.1 Alphabets in
2.2 Alphabets
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2.3 Phonology
2.3.1 How Many Vowels
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12
Rank: 9 (Overall)
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2.3.2 How Many Consonants
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36
Rank: 26 (Overall)
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2.4 Scripts
Devanagari
2.5 Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
2.6 Hard to Learn
2.6.1 Language Levels
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2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
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44 weeks
Rank: 11 (Overall)
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3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
नमस्ते (namaste)
3.2 Thank You
धन्यवाद (dhanyabad)
3.3 How Are You?
तिमीलाई कस्तो छ? (timi lai kasto cha?)
3.4 Good Night
शुभ रात्री (subha ratri)
3.5 Good Evening
शुभ सन्ध्या (subha sandhya)
3.6 Good Afternoon
Good afternoon
3.7 Good Morning
शुभ प्रभात (subha prabhat)
3.8 Please
कृपया
3.9 Sorry
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
3.10 Bye
नमस्ते (namaste)
3.11 I Love You
म तपाइलाइ माया गर्छु। (ma tapainlai maya garchu)
3.12 Excuse Me
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Doteli
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Nepal
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
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4.2 Dialect 2
Bajhangi
4.2.1 Where They Speak
India, Nepal
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
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Not Available
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4.3 Dialect 3
Baitadeli
4.3.1 Where They Speak
Nepal
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
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4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
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12
Rank: 12 (Overall)
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5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
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30.00 million
Rank: 36 (Overall)
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5.2 Speaking Population
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0.25 %
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5.3 Native Speakers
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25.00 million
Rank: 32 (Overall)
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5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
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5.00 million
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5.3.2 Native Name
नेपाली (nēpālī)
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Eastern Pahadi, Gorkhali, Gurkhali, Khaskura, Nepalese, Parbate
5.3.4 French Name
népalais
5.3.5 German Name
Nepali
5.4 Pronunciation
Not Available
5.5 Ethnicity
Gurkha, Khas people, Madhesi and Tharu
6 History
6.1 Origin
19 BC
6.2 Language Family
Indo-European Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
6.2.2 Branch
Indic
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
Khas language, Gurkhali, Parbatiya, Dzongkha Lhotshammikha
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Nepali
6.3.3 Language Position
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6.3.4 Signed Forms
Signed Nepali
6.4 Scope
Individual, Macrolanguage
7 Code
7.1 ISO 639 1
ne
7.2 ISO 639 2
7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
nep
7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
nep
7.3 ISO 639 3
npi
7.4 ISO 639 6
Not Available
7.5 Glottocode
nepa1254
7.6 Linguasphere
12
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
Living
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
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Know Alphabets in Nepali

When you start learning to write in any language the Alphabets form a skeleton of any language. Let's talk About Nepali Language, where you will learn the number of letter in Nepali Alphabets. Every language has its own set of alphabets or characters so it is necessary to know alphabets in Nepali. Nepali phonology gives Nepali vowels and Nepali consonants. There are 12 vowels and 36 consonants in Nepali language. Based upon the number of alphabet, vowels and consonants in the language we can check if Nepali is one of the Most Difficult Languages. All about Nepali language is given in detail in this section.

All Nepali countries

Want to explore all Nepali countries? About Nepali language serves you with all Nepali Speaking Countries. Countries that use Nepali as official language are called as Nepali countries.

  • Countries that use Nepali as their National Language are: Nepal.

Second language indicates to any language which the person learns in addition to first or native language.

  • Countries that use Nepali as second language are: Republic of Brazil.

You can also go through all European Languages and explore more about their speaking population, alphabets, greetings, dialects and many more.

Learn Nepali greetings

Languages are used by every human being to communicate. And communication begins with the greetings. First step to form any interaction is to learn Nepali Greetings. Whenever you are travelling to new country where in you don’t know the local language of that country then you should at least be familiar with some greetings to start any formal or informal conversion. When we talk about Nepali language, we are always interested in learning useful phrases in Nepali language.Learn Nepali greetings that can be used in formal situations:

  • Hello: नमस्ते (namaste)
  • Thank you: धन्यवाद (dhanyabad)
  • Good Morning: शुभ प्रभात (subha prabhat)
  • Good Evening: शुभ सन्ध्या (subha sandhya)
  • Good Afternoon: Good afternoon

All Nepali Language Codes

Get to know all Nepali language codes here. There are several languages spoken all over the world where in most of the languages have alternate names which come from diverse sources. All Nepali Language Codes are assigned with unique code. There is usually two or three letters code for each language. In most of the applications, these language codes are used where it is tedious to use language names.

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