Countries
East Java, Island of Madura, North Java, Sapudi Islands, Singapore
India, Nepal
Total No. Of Countries
52
0
46
👆🏻
National Language
Indonesia, Island of Madura
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
- There is unique pronunciation system in the Madurese language.
- Madurese was first written using Javanese Alphabets.
- 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 and Javanese Languages
Hindi
Derived From
-
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2748
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
612
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2136
9
60
👆🏻
Scripts
Latin
Devanagari
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
46
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Halo
नमस्ते (namaste)
Thank You
matur nuwun
धन्यवाद (dhanyabad)
How Are You?
piye kabare?
तिमीलाई कस्तो छ? (timi lai kasto cha?)
Good Night
wengi sing apik
शुभ रात्री (subha ratri)
Good Evening
Sugeng sọnten
शुभ सन्ध्या (subha sandhya)
Good Afternoon
Sugeng siang
Good afternoon
Good Morning
Sugeng énjing
शुभ प्रभात (subha prabhat)
Please
tolong
कृपया
Sorry
Nyuwun pangapunten
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
Bye
Pamit
नमस्ते (namaste)
I Love You
Kula tresna panjengan
म तपाइलाइ माया गर्छु। (ma tapainlai maya garchu)
Excuse Me
Nuwun séwu
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
Dialect 1
Kangean
Doteli
Where They Speak
Indonesia
Nepal
How Many People Speak
110,000.00790,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Bawean
Bajhangi
Where They Speak
Indonesia
India, Nepal
How Many People Speak
8,000,000.0017,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Bangkalan
Baitadeli
Where They Speak
Indonesia
Nepal
How Many People Speak
8,000,000.0017,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
612
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
15.00 million30.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.23 %0.25 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
15.00 million25.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
14.00 million5.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Madurese
नेपाली (nēpālī)
Alternative Names
Basa Mathura, Madhura, Madura
Eastern Pahadi, Gorkhali, Gurkhali, Khaskura, Nepalese, Parbate
French Name
madourais
népalais
German Name
Maduresisch
Nepali
Pronunciation
[madura]
[neˈpali]
Ethnicity
Madurese
Gurkha, Khas people, Madhesi and Tharu
Origin
8th Century AD
19 BC
Language Family
Austronesian Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Indonesian
Indo-Iranian
Branch
-
Indic
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Khas language, Gurkhali, Parbatiya, Dzongkha Lhotshammikha
Standard Forms
Madurese
Nepali
Language Position
6959
1
120
👆🏻
Signed Forms
Madurese Sign Language
Signed Nepali
Scope
Individual
Individual, Macrolanguage
ISO 639 1
No data Available
ne
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
mad
nep
ISO 639 2/B
mad
nep
ISO 639 3
mad
npi
ISO 639 6
-
nep
Glottocode
madu1247
nepa1254
Linguasphere
No data available
12
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
-
Agglutinative