Countries
Basque Autonomous Community, Navarre
India, Nepal
Total No. Of Countries
22
0
46
👆🏻
National Language
France, Spain
Nepal
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Republic of Brazil
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
Asia
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
People's Republic of China
Regulated By
Euskaltzaindia, National Languages Committee
Language Academy of Nepal
Interesting Facts
- The Basque language is the oldest European language.
- Basque alphabet include many Roman letters.
- 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
Spanish
Hindi
Derived From
-
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2748
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
512
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2136
9
60
👆🏻
Scripts
Latin
Devanagari
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
36
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
88 weeks44 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
Kaixo
नमस्ते (namaste)
Thank You
Eskerrik asko
धन्यवाद (dhanyabad)
How Are You?
Zer moduz?
तिमीलाई कस्तो छ? (timi lai kasto cha?)
Good Night
Gabon
शुभ रात्री (subha ratri)
Good Evening
Arratsalde on
शुभ सन्ध्या (subha sandhya)
Good Afternoon
Arratsalde on
Good afternoon
Good Morning
Egun on
शुभ प्रभात (subha prabhat)
Please
Mesedez
कृपया
Sorry
Barkatu
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
Bye
Agur
नमस्ते (namaste)
I Love You
Maite zaitut
म तपाइलाइ माया गर्छु। (ma tapainlai maya garchu)
Excuse Me
Barkatu
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
Dialect 1
Navarro-Lapurdian
Doteli
Where They Speak
France
Nepal
How Many People Speak
68,000.00790,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Souletin
Bajhangi
Where They Speak
France, Soule, Spain
India, Nepal
How Many People Speak
8,700.0017,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Biscayan
Baitadeli
Where They Speak
Spain
Nepal
How Many People Speak
750,000.0017,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
612
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
7.20 million30.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.12 %0.25 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
7.20 million25.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
0.70 million5.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Euskara
नेपाली (nēpālī)
Alternative Names
Euskara, Euskera, Vascuense
Eastern Pahadi, Gorkhali, Gurkhali, Khaskura, Nepalese, Parbate
French Name
basque
népalais
German Name
Baskisch
Nepali
Pronunciation
[bɑːsk]
[neˈpali]
Ethnicity
Basque people
Gurkha, Khas people, Madhesi and Tharu
Origin
c. 1000
19 BC
Language Family
Vasconic Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
-
Indo-Iranian
Branch
-
Indic
Language Forms
Early Forms
Proto-Basque, Aquitanian
Khas language, Gurkhali, Parbatiya, Dzongkha Lhotshammikha
Standard Forms
Basque
Nepali
Language Position
3059
1
120
👆🏻
Signed Forms
Basque Sign Language
Signed Nepali
Scope
-
Individual, Macrolanguage
ISO 639 1
eu
ne
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
eus
nep
ISO 639 2/B
baq
nep
ISO 639 3
eus
npi
ISO 639 6
eus
nep
Glottocode
basq1248
nepa1254
Linguasphere
40-AAA-a
12
Types of Language
Language Type
-
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
Agglutinative