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Countries

Countries

Barbados, Belize, Botswana, Cameroon, Canada, Dominica, Fiji, Ghana, India, Ireland, Jamaica, Kenya, Malta, Mauritius, Micronesia, Nigeria, Pakistan, Philippines, Rwanda, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Samoa, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Somaliland, South Africa, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania, Trinidad and Tobago, Uganda, United Kingdom, Zambia, Zimbabwe
India, Nepal

Total No. Of Countries

332
0 46
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National Language

Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bermuda, Cayman Islands, Gibraltar, Grenada, Guam, Guyana, Jersey, Montserrat, Nauru, Singapore, Trinidad and Tobago, United Kingdom, United States of America
Nepal

Second Language

India, Nigeria, Pakistan, Singapore
Republic of Brazil

Speaking Continents

Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, North America, Oceania, South America
Asia

Minority Language

South Africa
People's Republic of China

Regulated By

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Language Academy of Nepal

Interesting Facts

  • Most of the English words begin with the letter S than any other letter.
  • English is third most commonly spoken language in the world.
  • 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

Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and German Languages
Hindi

Derived From

Latin
Sanskrit Language

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

2648
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

512
0 32
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How Many Consonants

2136
9 60
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Scripts

Latin
Devanagari

Writing Direction

Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

76
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

6 weeks44 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

Hello
नमस्ते (namaste)

Thank You

Thank you
धन्यवाद (dhanyabad)

How Are You?

How are you?
तिमीलाई कस्तो छ? (timi lai kasto cha?)

Good Night

Good Night
शुभ रात्री (subha ratri)

Good Evening

Good Evening
शुभ सन्ध्या (subha sandhya)

Good Afternoon

Good Afternoon
Good afternoon

Good Morning

Good Morning
शुभ प्रभात (subha prabhat)

Please

Please
कृपया

Sorry

Sorry
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)

Bye

Bye
नमस्ते (namaste)

I Love You

I love you
म तपाइलाइ माया गर्छु। (ma tapainlai maya garchu)

Excuse Me

Excuse Me
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)

Dialects

Dialect 1

American English
Doteli

Where They Speak

United States of America
Nepal

How Many People Speak

225,000,000.00790,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Hiberno-English
Bajhangi

Where They Speak

Republic of Ireland, United Kingdom
India, Nepal

How Many People Speak

4,500,000.0017,000,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Welsh English
Baitadeli

Where They Speak

United Kingdom
Nepal

How Many People Speak

2,500,000.0017,000,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

18812
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

1,200.00 million30.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

5.43 %0.25 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

400.00 million25.00 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

400.00 million5.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

English
नेपाली (nēpālī)

Alternative Names

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

French Name

anglais
népalais

German Name

Englisch
Nepali

Pronunciation

/ˈɪŋɡlɪʃ/
[neˈpali]

Ethnicity

English people
Gurkha, Khas people, Madhesi and Tharu

History

Origin

5th Century AD
19 BC

Language Family

Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family

Subgroup

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Indo-Iranian

Branch

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Indic

Language Forms

Early Forms

Old English, Middle English, Early Modern English and English
Khas language, Gurkhali, Parbatiya, Dzongkha Lhotshammikha

Standard Forms

Standard English
Nepali

Language Position

359
1 120
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Signed Forms

Signed English
Signed Nepali

Scope

Individual
Individual, Macrolanguage

Code

ISO 639 1

en
ne

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

eng
nep

ISO 639 2/B

eng
nep

ISO 639 3

eng
npi

ISO 639 6

engs
nep

Glottocode

stan1293
nepa1254

Linguasphere

52-ABA
12

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb

Language Morphological Typology

Analytic, Fusional, Isolating, Synthetic
Agglutinative

English and Nepali Alphabets

English and Nepali Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in English and Nepali. In English Alphabets there are 26 letters while in Nepali Alphabets there are 48 letters. To learn English and Nepali languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of English and Nepali languages. The English phonology consist English vowels and English consonants. After alphabets, words are to be learned and after words, phrases in that language. Take a look at English greetings vs Nepali greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether English and Nepali are Most Spoken Languages.

All English and Nepali Dialects

Most languages have dialects where each dialect differ from other dialect with respect to grammar and vocabulary. Here you will get to know all English and Nepali dialects. Various dialects of English and Nepali language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of English are spoken in different English Speaking Countries whereas Nepali Dialects are spoken in different Nepali speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking English vs Nepali Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the English dialects include: American English, Hiberno-English. Nepali dialects include: Doteli , Bajhangi. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

English and Nepali Speaking population

English and Nepali speaking population is one of the factors based on which English and Nepali languages can be compared. The total count of English and Nepali Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking English language is 5.43 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Nepali language is 0.25 %. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak English and Nepali on English vs Nepali where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

English and Nepali Language Codes

English and Nepali language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. English and Nepali Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.