Countries
India, Pakistan
India, Nepal
Total No. Of Countries
22
0
46
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National Language
India, Pakistan
Nepal
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Republic of Brazil
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
People's Republic of China
Regulated By
-
Language Academy of Nepal
Interesting Facts
- Kashmiri is the only Daridc language with literature which was originated more than seven hundred and fifty years ago.
- Kashmiri has thousands of loan words from Persian and Arabic Languages.
- 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
Hindi and Urdu Languages
Hindi
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
4448
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
1712
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2736
9
60
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Scripts
Arabic, Perso-Arabic script
Devanagari
Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
66
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Assalām ‘alaikum
नमस्ते (namaste)
Thank You
शुकिया / شکریہ (shukriya)
धन्यवाद (dhanyabad)
How Are You?
तोहय छिवा वारय? (tohy ch'ivaa vaarai?)
तिमीलाई कस्तो छ? (timi lai kasto cha?)
Good Night
शबे खैर । (shabey k'eūr)
शुभ रात्री (subha ratri)
Good Evening
سہا مسا
शुभ सन्ध्या (subha sandhya)
Good Afternoon
Hach t'ochoktiya
Good afternoon
Good Morning
Hach ch'i
शुभ प्रभात (subha prabhat)
Please
مهربانی کر
कृपया
Sorry
माफ कॅरिव । (maap' keuriv)
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
Bye
Khuda hāfiz
नमस्ते (namaste)
I Love You
be chus che seth mohabat karaan
म तपाइलाइ माया गर्छु। (ma tapainlai maya garchu)
Excuse Me
वय त्रॅाविव । (vat' treūviv)
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
Dialect 1
Kashtawari
Doteli
Where They Speak
India, Koshtawar valley, southeast kashmir, India
Nepal
How Many People Speak
6,000,000.00790,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Poguli
Bajhangi
Where They Speak
Pogul and Paristan valleys
India, Nepal
How Many People Speak
6,100,000.0017,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Rambani
Baitadeli
Where They Speak
India
Nepal
How Many People Speak
5,600,000.0017,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
412
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
5.60 million30.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.05 %0.25 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
5.42 million25.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
5.00 million5.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
कॉशुर / كٲشُر
नेपाली (nēpālī)
Alternative Names
Cashmeeree, Cashmiri, Kacmiri, Kaschemiri, Keshur, Koshur
Eastern Pahadi, Gorkhali, Gurkhali, Khaskura, Nepalese, Parbate
French Name
kashmiri
népalais
German Name
Kaschmiri
Nepali
Pronunciation
[kəːʃur]
[neˈpali]
Ethnicity
Kashmiris or koshur
Gurkha, Khas people, Madhesi and Tharu
Origin
12th 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
Kashmiri
Nepali
Language Position
2359
1
120
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Signed Forms
Indian Signing System (ISS)
Signed Nepali
Scope
Individual
Individual, Macrolanguage
ISO 639 1
ks
ne
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
kas
nep
ISO 639 2/B
kas
nep
ISO 639 3
kas
npi
ISO 639 6
kas
nep
Glottocode
kash1277
nepa1254
Linguasphere
No data available
12
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
-
Agglutinative