Countries
Indonesia
India, Nepal
Total No. Of Countries
12
0
46
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National Language
Indonesia
Nepal
Second Language
East Timor, Indonesia
Republic of Brazil
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Denmark, East Timor, Netherlands
People's Republic of China
Regulated By
Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa
Language Academy of Nepal
Interesting Facts
- The modern Indonesian language uses many loan words from Persian, Chinese and Arabic.
- In Indonesian language, spelling is phonetically precise, so that words are spelled as they sound.
- 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
Malay language
Hindi
Derived From
Malay and Dutch Languages
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2648
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
612
0
32
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How Many Consonants
1936
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Devanagari
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
76
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
36 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Halo
नमस्ते (namaste)
Thank You
Terima kasih
धन्यवाद (dhanyabad)
How Are You?
Apa kabar?
तिमीलाई कस्तो छ? (timi lai kasto cha?)
Good Night
Selamat Malam
शुभ रात्री (subha ratri)
Good Evening
Malam yang baik
शुभ सन्ध्या (subha sandhya)
Good Afternoon
Selamat Sore
Good afternoon
Good Morning
Selamat Pagi
शुभ प्रभात (subha prabhat)
Please
mohon Untuk
कृपया
Sorry
maaf
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
Bye
Selamat tinggal
नमस्ते (namaste)
I Love You
Aku cinta kamu
म तपाइलाइ माया गर्छु। (ma tapainlai maya garchu)
Excuse Me
Permisi
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
Dialect 1
Sundanese
Doteli
Where They Speak
Indonesia
Nepal
How Many People Speak
38,000,000.00790,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Balinese
Bajhangi
Where They Speak
Bali, Indonesia, Lombok and Java, Nusa Penida
India, Nepal
How Many People Speak
3,300,000.0017,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Minangkabau
Baitadeli
Where They Speak
Indonesia, Malaysia
Nepal
How Many People Speak
6,000,000.0017,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
4612
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
163.00 million30.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
1.16 %0.25 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
23.00 million25.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
140.00 million5.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
Bahasa Melayu
नेपाली (nēpālī)
Alternative Names
Bahasa Indonesia
Eastern Pahadi, Gorkhali, Gurkhali, Khaskura, Nepalese, Parbate
French Name
indonésien
népalais
German Name
Bahasa Indonesia
Nepali
Pronunciation
[bahaˈsa indoneˈsia]
[neˈpali]
Ethnicity
Indonesians
Gurkha, Khas people, Madhesi and Tharu
Origin
7th Century
19 BC
Language Family
Austronesian Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Indonesian
Indo-Iranian
Branch
-
Indic
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Malay
Khas language, Gurkhali, Parbatiya, Dzongkha Lhotshammikha
Standard Forms
Indonesian
Nepali
Language Position
5659
1
120
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Signed Forms
Sistem Isyarat Bahasa Indonesia (SIBI, "Signed Indonesian")
Signed Nepali
Scope
Individual
Individual, Macrolanguage
ISO 639 1
id
ne
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
ind
nep
ISO 639 2/B
ind
nep
ISO 639 3
ind
npi
ISO 639 6
ind
nep
Glottocode
indo1316
nepa1254
Linguasphere
No data available
12
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
Agglutinative