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Countries

Countries
India, Nepal

Total No. Of Countries
2 13

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
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Alphabets
48 28

Phonology

How Many Vowels
12 9

How Many Consonants
36 26

Scripts
Devanagari

Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal

Hard to Learn

Language Levels
6 5

Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks 17

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 63

Dialect 2
Bajhangi

Where They Speak
India, Nepal

How Many People Speak
17,000,000.00 29

Dialect 3
Baitadeli

Where They Speak
Nepal

How Many People Speak
17,000,000.00 26

Total No. Of Dialects
12 12

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
30.00 million 36

Speaking Population
0.25 % 43

Native Speakers
25.00 million 32

Second Language Speakers
5.00 million 51

Native Name
नेपाली (nēpālī)

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

French Name
népalais

German Name
Nepali

Pronunciation
[neˈpali]

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
59 54

Signed Forms
Signed Nepali

Scope
Individual, Macrolanguage

Code

ISO 639 1
ne

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T
nep

ISO 639 2/B
nep

ISO 639 3
npi

ISO 639 6
nep

Glottocode
nepa1254

Linguasphere
12

Types of Language

Language Type
Living

Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb

Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative

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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.

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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.

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