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Countries

Countries

Cyprus, European Union, Greece
India, Nepal

Total No. Of Countries

32
0 46
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National Language

Albania, Cyprus, Egypt, France, Greece, Italy, Romania, Turkey, Ukraine
Nepal

Second Language

Roman Empire
Republic of Brazil

Speaking Continents

Asia, Europe
Asia

Minority Language

Albania, Armenia, Australia, Hungary, Italy, Romania, Turkey, Ukraine
People's Republic of China

Regulated By

Center for the Greek language (Κέντρον Ελληνικής Γλώσσας)
Language Academy of Nepal

Interesting Facts

  • Greek is the longest documented language of all the Indo-European Langauges.
  • The official language of education in the Roman Empire was Greek.
  • 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

Armenian
Hindi

Derived From

Latin
Sanskrit Language

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

2448
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

712
0 32
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How Many Consonants

1736
9 60
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Scripts

Arabic, Latin
Devanagari

Writing Direction

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

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

66
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

44 weeks44 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

γεια σας (geia sas)
नमस्ते (namaste)

Thank You

ευχαριστώ (ef̱charistó̱)
धन्यवाद (dhanyabad)

How Are You?

πώς είσαι (pó̱s eísai)
तिमीलाई कस्तो छ? (timi lai kasto cha?)

Good Night

Καληνυχτα (Kali̱nychta)
शुभ रात्री (subha ratri)

Good Evening

καλησπέρα (kali̱spéra)
शुभ सन्ध्या (subha sandhya)

Good Afternoon

Καλὸ ἀπόγευμα (Kaló apóyevma)
Good afternoon

Good Morning

καλημέρα (kali̱méra)
शुभ प्रभात (subha prabhat)

Please

παρακαλώ (parakaló̱)
कृपया

Sorry

συγνώμη (sygnó̱mi̱)
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)

Bye

αντίο (antío)
नमस्ते (namaste)

I Love You

Σε αγαπώ (Se agapó̱)
म तपाइलाइ माया गर्छु। (ma tapainlai maya garchu)

Excuse Me

Με συγχωρείτε! (Me synhoríte)
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)

Dialects

Dialect 1

Cappadocian Greek
Doteli

Where They Speak

Greece
Nepal

How Many People Speak

2,800.00790,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Griko
Bajhangi

Where They Speak

Italy
India, Nepal

How Many People Speak

50,000.0017,000,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Mariupol
Baitadeli

Where They Speak

Ukraine
Nepal

How Many People Speak

13,000,000.0017,000,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

2512
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

13.00 million30.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.18 %0.25 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

13.00 million25.00 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

13.00 million5.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

ελληνικά
नेपाली (nēpālī)

Alternative Names

Ellinika, Graecae, Grec, Greco, Neo-Hellenic, Romaic
Eastern Pahadi, Gorkhali, Gurkhali, Khaskura, Nepalese, Parbate

French Name

grec moderne (après 1453)
népalais

German Name

Neugriechisch
Nepali

Pronunciation

[eliniˈka]
[neˈpali]

Ethnicity

Greeks or Hellenes
Gurkha, Khas people, Madhesi and Tharu

History

Origin

1500 BC
19 BC

Language Family

Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family

Subgroup

Hellenic
Indo-Iranian

Branch

-
Indic

Language Forms

Early Forms

Proto-Greek, Mycenaean Greek, Ancient Greek, Koine Greek and Medieval Greek
Khas language, Gurkhali, Parbatiya, Dzongkha Lhotshammikha

Standard Forms

Modern Greek
Nepali

Language Position

7459
1 120
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Signed Forms

Greek Sign Language
Signed Nepali

Scope

Individual
Individual, Macrolanguage

Code

ISO 639 1

el
ne

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

ell
nep

ISO 639 2/B

gre
nep

ISO 639 3

ell
npi

ISO 639 6

ells
nep

Glottocode

gree1276
nepa1254

Linguasphere

56-AAA-a
12

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb

Language Morphological Typology

Fusional, Synthetic
Agglutinative

Greek and Nepali Alphabets

Greek and Nepali Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Greek and Nepali. In Greek Alphabets there are 24 letters while in Nepali Alphabets there are 48 letters. To learn Greek and Nepali languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Greek and Nepali languages. The Greek phonology consist Greek vowels and Greek consonants. After alphabets, words are to be learned and after words, phrases in that language. Take a look at Greek greetings vs Nepali greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Greek and Nepali are Most Spoken Languages.

All Greek 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 Greek and Nepali dialects. Various dialects of Greek and Nepali language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Greek are spoken in different Greek Speaking Countries whereas Nepali Dialects are spoken in different Nepali speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Greek vs Nepali Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Greek dialects include: Cappadocian Greek, Griko. Nepali dialects include: Doteli , Bajhangi. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

Greek and Nepali Speaking population

Greek and Nepali speaking population is one of the factors based on which Greek and Nepali languages can be compared. The total count of Greek and Nepali Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Greek language is 0.18 % 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 Greek and Nepali on Greek vs Nepali where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Greek and Nepali Language Codes

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