Countries
China, Kazakhstan, Russia
India, Nepal
Total No. Of Countries
32
0
46
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National Language
Gambia, Kazakhstan
Nepal
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries, Republic of Brazil
Republic of Brazil
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
Asia
Minority Language
Afganistan, Iran, Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia, People's Republic of China, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
People's Republic of China
Regulated By
Kazakh language agency
Language Academy of Nepal
Interesting Facts
- The Kazakh language can be written using a variety of scripts.
- Kazakh Language contains many words from Russian, Arabic, Mongol, Persian and other Turkic 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
Turkish and Uzbek Languages
Hindi
Derived From
-
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2448
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
512
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
1736
9
60
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Scripts
Arabic, Cyrillic
Devanagari
Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
36
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
Сәлеметсіз бе (Sälemetsiz be)
नमस्ते (namaste)
Thank You
Рақмет сізге (Raqmet sizge)
धन्यवाद (dhanyabad)
How Are You?
Қалыңыз қалай? (Qalıñız qalay?)
तिमीलाई कस्तो छ? (timi lai kasto cha?)
Good Night
қайырлы түн (qayırlı tün)
शुभ रात्री (subha ratri)
Good Evening
қайырлы кеш (qayırlı keş)
शुभ सन्ध्या (subha sandhya)
Good Afternoon
қайырлы күн (qayırlı kün)
Good afternoon
Good Morning
қайырлы таң (qayırlı tañ)
शुभ प्रभात (subha prabhat)
Please
өтінемін (ötinemin)
कृपया
Sorry
кешіріңіз (keşiriñiz)
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
Bye
bye
नमस्ते (namaste)
I Love You
Мен сені жақсы көремін (Men seni jaqsı köremin)
म तपाइलाइ माया गर्छु। (ma tapainlai maya garchu)
Excuse Me
Кешіріңіз! (Keşiriñiz!)
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
Dialect 1
Northeastern Kazakh
Doteli
Where They Speak
Kazakhstan
Nepal
How Many People Speak
18,000,000.00790,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Southern Kazakh
Bajhangi
Where They Speak
Kazakhstan
India, Nepal
How Many People Speak
18,000,000.0017,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Western Kazakh
Baitadeli
Where They Speak
Kazakhstan
Nepal
How Many People Speak
18,000,000.0017,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
312
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
11.00 million30.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.17 %0.25 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
11.00 million25.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
18.00 million5.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Қазақ тілі / Qazaq tili / قازاق ٴتىلى
नेपाली (nēpālī)
Alternative Names
Kaisak, Kazak, Kosach, Qazaq
Eastern Pahadi, Gorkhali, Gurkhali, Khaskura, Nepalese, Parbate
French Name
kazakh
népalais
German Name
Kasachisch
Nepali
Pronunciation
[qɑˈzɑq tɘˈlɘ]
[neˈpali]
Ethnicity
Kazahks
Gurkha, Khas people, Madhesi and Tharu
Origin
17th Century
19 BC
Language Family
Turkic Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Turkic
Indo-Iranian
Branch
Northwestern (Kipchak)
Indic
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Khas language, Gurkhali, Parbatiya, Dzongkha Lhotshammikha
Standard Forms
Kazakh
Nepali
Language Position
9359
1
120
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Signed Forms
Kazakh Sign Language
Signed Nepali
Scope
Individual
Individual, Macrolanguage
ISO 639 1
kk
ne
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
kaz
nep
ISO 639 2/B
kaz
nep
ISO 639 3
kaz
npi
ISO 639 6
kaz
nep
Glottocode
kaza1248
nepa1254
Linguasphere
No data available
12
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
Agglutinative