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Countries

Countries

Japan
India, Nepal

Total No. Of Countries

12
0 46
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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

Alphabets in

Alphabets

9948
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

512
0 32
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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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Greetings

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)

Dialects

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
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Total No. Of Dialects

3112
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

128.00 million30.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

1.90 %0.25 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

128.00 million25.00 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

3.00 million5.00 million
0.01 400
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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

History

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

Code

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

Japanese and Nepali Alphabets

Japanese and Nepali Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Japanese and Nepali. In Japanese Alphabets there are 99 letters while in Nepali Alphabets there are 48 letters. To learn Japanese and Nepali languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Japanese and Nepali languages. The Japanese phonology consist Japanese vowels and Japanese consonants. After alphabets, words are to be learned and after words, phrases in that language. Take a look at Japanese greetings vs Nepali greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Japanese and Nepali are Most Spoken Languages.

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

Japanese and Nepali Speaking population

Japanese and Nepali speaking population is one of the factors based on which Japanese and Nepali languages can be compared. The total count of Japanese and Nepali Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Japanese language is 1.90 % 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 Japanese and Nepali on Japanese vs Nepali where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Japanese and Nepali Language Codes

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