About Nepali Language | Nepali | Alphabets in Nepali

Countries

India, Nepal

Total No. Of Countries

Rank: 13 (Overall)

0 46

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National Language

Nepal

Second Language

Republic of Brazil

Speaking Continents

Asia

Minority Language

People's Republic of China

Regulated By

Language Academy of Nepal

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.

Similar To

Hindi

Derived From

Sanskrit Language

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

Rank: 28 (Overall)

18 247

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Phonology

How Many Vowels

Rank: 9 (Overall)

0 32

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How Many Consonants

Rank: 26 (Overall)

9 60

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Scripts

Devanagari

Writing Direction

Left-To-Right, Horizontal

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

Rank: 5 (Overall)

2 12

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Time Taken to Learn

44 weeks

Rank: 11 (Overall)

3 88

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Greetings

Hello

नमस्ते (namaste)

Thank You

धन्यवाद (dhanyabad)

How Are You?

तिमीलाई कस्तो छ? (timi lai kasto cha?)

Good Night

शुभ रात्री (subha ratri)

Good Evening

शुभ सन्ध्या (subha sandhya)

Good Afternoon

Good afternoon

Good Morning

शुभ प्रभात (subha prabhat)

Please

कृपया

Sorry

माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)

Bye

नमस्ते (namaste)

I Love You

म तपाइलाइ माया गर्छु। (ma tapainlai maya garchu)

Excuse Me

माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)

Dialects

Dialect 1

Doteli

Where They Speak

Nepal

How Many People Speak

790,000.00

Rank: 30 (Overall)

1.5 960000000

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Dialect 2

Bajhangi

Where They Speak

India, Nepal

How Many People Speak

Not Available

700 80000000

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Dialect 3

Baitadeli

Where They Speak

Nepal

How Many People Speak

Not Available

1400 96000000

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Total No. Of Dialects

Rank: 12 (Overall)

0 188

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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

30.00 million

Rank: 36 (Overall)

0.13 1200

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Speaking Population

0.25 %

Rank: 41 (Overall)

0.11 89

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Native Speakers

25.00 million

Rank: 32 (Overall)

0.13 873

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Second Language Speakers

5.00 million

Rank: 29 (Overall)

0.01 400

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Native Name

नेपाली (nēpālī)

Alternative Names

Eastern Pahadi, Gorkhali, Gurkhali, Khaskura, Nepalese, Parbate

French Name

népalais

German Name

Nepali

Pronunciation

Not Available

Ethnicity

Gurkha, Khas people, Madhesi and Tharu

History

Origin

19 BC

Language Family

Indo-European Family

Subgroup

Indo-Iranian

Branch

Indic

Language Forms

Early Forms

Khas language, Gurkhali, Parbatiya, Dzongkha Lhotshammikha

Standard Forms

Nepali

Language Position

Rank: 44 (Overall)

1 120

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Signed Forms

Signed Nepali

Scope

Individual, Macrolanguage

Code

ISO 639 1

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

nep

ISO 639 2/B

nep

ISO 639 3

npi

ISO 639 6

Not Available

Glottocode

nepa1254

Linguasphere

Types of Language

Language Type

Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Object-Verb

Language Morphological Typology

Agglutinative

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.

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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.