Countries
Fiji, India
India, Nepal
Total No. Of Countries
22
0
46
👆🏻
National Language
India
Nepal
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Republic of Brazil
Speaking Continents
Asia, Oceania
Asia
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
People's Republic of China
Regulated By
Central Hindi Directorate
Language Academy of Nepal
Interesting Facts
- In Hindi language, nouns are followed by post positions.
- In Hindi, there are many familiar words in English which are in Hindi or of Hindi origin.
- 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
Urdu
Hindi
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
4448
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
1112
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
3336
9
60
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Scripts
Devanagari
Devanagari
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
46
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
नमस्ते (Namastē)
नमस्ते (namaste)
Thank You
धन्यवाद (Dhan'yavāda)
धन्यवाद (dhanyabad)
How Are You?
तुम कैसे हो? (Tuma kaisē hō?)
तिमीलाई कस्तो छ? (timi lai kasto cha?)
Good Night
शुभरात्रि (Śubharātri)
शुभ रात्री (subha ratri)
Good Evening
शुभ सन्ध्या (shubh sandhya)
शुभ सन्ध्या (subha sandhya)
Good Afternoon
दोपहर के बाद नमस्कार (dopahar ke bad namaskar)
Good afternoon
Good Morning
सुप्रभात (Suprabhāta)
शुभ प्रभात (subha prabhat)
Please
कृपया (Kr̥payā)
कृपया
Sorry
खेद (Khēda)
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
Bye
अलविदा (Alavidā)
नमस्ते (namaste)
I Love You
मैं आपसे प्यार करता (Maiṁ āpasē pyāra karatā)
म तपाइलाइ माया गर्छु। (ma tapainlai maya garchu)
Excuse Me
मुझे माफ करें (Mujhē māpha karēṁ)
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
Dialect 1
Khariboli
Doteli
Where They Speak
Delhi, Haryana, Western Uttar Pradesh
Nepal
How Many People Speak
240,000,000.00790,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Marwari
Bajhangi
Where They Speak
Gujarat, Haryana, Rajasthan, Sindh
India, Nepal
How Many People Speak
22,000,000.0017,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Bundeli
Baitadeli
Where They Speak
Bundelkhand
Nepal
How Many People Speak
20,000,000.0017,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
2112
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
380.00 million30.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
4.70 %0.25 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
260.00 million25.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
120.00 million5.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
हिन्दी
नेपाली (nēpālī)
Alternative Names
Khadi Boli, Khari Boli
Eastern Pahadi, Gorkhali, Gurkhali, Khaskura, Nepalese, Parbate
French Name
hindi
népalais
German Name
Hindi
Nepali
Pronunciation
[ˈmaːnək ˈɦin̪d̪iː]
[neˈpali]
Ethnicity
Hindustani people
Gurkha, Khas people, Madhesi and Tharu
Origin
7th Century
19 BC
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Indo-Iranian
Branch
Indic
Indic
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Khas language, Gurkhali, Parbatiya, Dzongkha Lhotshammikha
Standard Forms
Standard Hindi
Nepali
Language Position
559
1
120
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Signed Forms
Indian Signing System
Signed Nepali
Scope
Individual
Individual, Macrolanguage
ISO 639 1
hi
ne
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
hin
nep
ISO 639 2/B
hin
nep
ISO 639 3
hin
npi
ISO 639 6
hins
nep
Glottocode
hind1269
nepa1254
Linguasphere
59-AAF-qf
12
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
Agglutinative