Countries
East Asia, European Union, South America
India, Nepal
Total No. Of Countries
32
0
46
👆🏻
National Language
East Asia, European Union
Nepal
Second Language
Central Europe, East Asia, Eastern Europe, South America
Republic of Brazil
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe, South America
Asia
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
People's Republic of China
Regulated By
Akademio de Esperanto
Language Academy of Nepal
Interesting Facts
- The most widely spoken constructed language in the world is Esperanto.
- Esperanto is an artificial international language.
- 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
Latin and Italian Languages
Hindi
Derived From
-
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3248
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
512
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2736
9
60
👆🏻
Scripts
Latin
Devanagari
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
26
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
6 weeks44 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
Halo
नमस्ते (namaste)
Thank You
Dankon
धन्यवाद (dhanyabad)
How Are You?
Kiel vi sanas?
तिमीलाई कस्तो छ? (timi lai kasto cha?)
Good Night
Bonan nokton
शुभ रात्री (subha ratri)
Good Evening
Bonan vesperon
शुभ सन्ध्या (subha sandhya)
Good Afternoon
Bonan posttagmezon
Good afternoon
Good Morning
Bonan matenon
शुभ प्रभात (subha prabhat)
Please
Mi petas
कृपया
Sorry
Mi bedaŭras!
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
Bye
Ĝis poste
नमस्ते (namaste)
I Love You
Mi amas vin
म तपाइलाइ माया गर्छु। (ma tapainlai maya garchu)
Excuse Me
Pardonu!
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
Dialect 1
Not present
Doteli
Where They Speak
Not present
Nepal
How Many People Speak
2,000,000.00790,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Not present
Bajhangi
Where They Speak
Not present
India, Nepal
How Many People Speak
1,000,000.0017,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Not present
Baitadeli
Where They Speak
Not present
Nepal
How Many People Speak
2,000,000.0017,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
012
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
2.20 million30.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.03 %0.25 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
0.20 million25.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
2.00 million5.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Esperanto
नेपाली (nēpālī)
Alternative Names
Eo, La Lingvo Internacia
Eastern Pahadi, Gorkhali, Gurkhali, Khaskura, Nepalese, Parbate
French Name
espéranto
népalais
German Name
Esperanto
Nepali
Pronunciation
[espeˈranto]
[neˈpali]
Ethnicity
Esperanto speakers
Gurkha, Khas people, Madhesi and Tharu
Origin
1887
19 BC
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
-
Indo-Iranian
Branch
-
Indic
Language Forms
Early Forms
Proto-Esperanto
Khas language, Gurkhali, Parbatiya, Dzongkha Lhotshammikha
Standard Forms
Esperanto
Nepali
Language Position
3359
1
120
👆🏻
Signed Forms
Signuno
Signed Nepali
Scope
Individual
Individual, Macrolanguage
ISO 639 1
eo
ne
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
epo
nep
ISO 639 2/B
epo
nep
ISO 639 3
epo
npi
ISO 639 6
epo
nep
Glottocode
espe1235
nepa1254
Linguasphere
51-AAB-da
12
Types of Language
Language Type
Constructed
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
Agglutinative