Countries
Japan
India, Nepal
Total No. Of Countries
12
0
46
👆🏻
National Language
Japan
Nepal
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Republic of Brazil
Speaking Continents
Asia, Pacific
Asia
Minority Language
Palau
People's Republic of China
Regulated By
Agency for Cultural Affairs (文化庁) at the Ministry of Education
Language Academy of Nepal
Interesting Facts
- In Japanese Language, there are 4 different ways to address people: kun, chan, san and sama.
- There are many words in Japanese language which end with vowel letter, which determines the structure and rhythm of Japanese.
- 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
Korean Language
Hindi
Derived From
-
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
9948
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
512
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
1436
9
60
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Scripts
Kana
Devanagari
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
56
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
88 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
こんにちは (Kon'nichiwa)
नमस्ते (namaste)
Thank You
ありがとう (Arigatō)
धन्यवाद (dhanyabad)
How Are You?
お元気ですか (O genki desu ka?)
तिमीलाई कस्तो छ? (timi lai kasto cha?)
Good Night
おやすみなさい (Oyasuminasai)
शुभ रात्री (subha ratri)
Good Evening
こんばんは (Konbanwa)
शुभ सन्ध्या (subha sandhya)
Good Afternoon
こんにちは (Konnichiwa!)
Good afternoon
Good Morning
おはよう (Ohayō)
शुभ प्रभात (subha prabhat)
Please
お願いします (Onegaishimasu)
कृपया
Sorry
ごめんなさい (Gomen'nasai)
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
Bye
さようなら (Sayōnara)
नमस्ते (namaste)
I Love You
愛しています (Aishiteimasu)
म तपाइलाइ माया गर्छु। (ma tapainlai maya garchu)
Excuse Me
すみません (Sumimasen)
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
Dialect 1
Sanuki
Doteli
Where They Speak
Kagawa
Nepal
How Many People Speak
1,000,000.00790,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Hakata
Bajhangi
Where They Speak
Fukuoka
India, Nepal
How Many People Speak
127,000,000.0017,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Kansai
Baitadeli
Where They Speak
kansai
Nepal
How Many People Speak
127,000,000.0017,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
3112
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
128.00 million30.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
1.90 %0.25 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
128.00 million25.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
3.00 million5.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
日本語
नेपाली (nēpālī)
Alternative Names
Nihongo
Eastern Pahadi, Gorkhali, Gurkhali, Khaskura, Nepalese, Parbate
French Name
japonais
népalais
German Name
Japanisch
Nepali
Pronunciation
/nihoɴɡo/: [nihõŋɡo], [nihõŋŋo]
[neˈpali]
Ethnicity
Japanese (Yamato)
Gurkha, Khas people, Madhesi and Tharu
Origin
1185
19 BC
Language Family
Japonic Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
-
Indo-Iranian
Branch
-
Indic
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Japanese, Early Middle Japanese, Late Middle Japanese and Early Modern Japanese
Khas language, Gurkhali, Parbatiya, Dzongkha Lhotshammikha
Standard Forms
Japanese
Nepali
Language Position
859
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Japanese
Signed Nepali
Scope
Individual
Individual, Macrolanguage
ISO 639 1
ja
ne
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
jpn
nep
ISO 639 2/B
jpn
nep
ISO 639 3
jpn
npi
ISO 639 6
jpn
nep
Glottocode
nucl1643
nepa1254
Linguasphere
45-CAA-a
12
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative, Synthetic
Agglutinative