Countries
Brunei, Malaysia, Singapore
India, Nepal
Total No. Of Countries
32
0
46
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National Language
Malaysia
Nepal
Second Language
Indonesia
Republic of Brazil
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Thailand
People's Republic of China
Regulated By
Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka
Language Academy of Nepal
Interesting Facts
- One of the most politically powerful language historically is Malaysian Language.
- Malaysian earliest known inscriptions were found in South of Sumatra way back in 683-6 AD.
- 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
Indonesian Language
Hindi
Derived From
Tamil Language
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2648
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
612
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2436
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Devanagari
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
66
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
36 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Hai
नमस्ते (namaste)
Thank You
terima kasih
धन्यवाद (dhanyabad)
How Are You?
Apa khabar?
तिमीलाई कस्तो छ? (timi lai kasto cha?)
Good Night
Selamat Malam
शुभ रात्री (subha ratri)
Good Evening
Selamat Petang
शुभ सन्ध्या (subha sandhya)
Good Afternoon
Selamat tengah hari
Good afternoon
Good Morning
Selamat pagi
शुभ प्रभात (subha prabhat)
Please
sila
कृपया
Sorry
maaf
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
Bye
Selamat tinggal
नमस्ते (namaste)
I Love You
Saya sayang kamu
म तपाइलाइ माया गर्छु। (ma tapainlai maya garchu)
Excuse Me
Maafkan saya
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
Dialect 1
Bengkulu
Doteli
Where They Speak
Bengkulu Province, Sumatra
Nepal
How Many People Speak
1,600,000.00790,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Pekal
Bajhangi
Where They Speak
Indonesia
India, Nepal
How Many People Speak
30,000.0017,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Musi
Baitadeli
Where They Speak
Indonesia
Nepal
How Many People Speak
3,100,000.0017,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
2412
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
175.00 million30.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
1.16 %0.25 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
77.00 million25.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
98.00 million5.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
Bahasa melayu
नेपाली (nēpālī)
Alternative Names
Bahasa Malaysia
Eastern Pahadi, Gorkhali, Gurkhali, Khaskura, Nepalese, Parbate
French Name
malais
népalais
German Name
Malaiisch
Nepali
Pronunciation
[baˈhasə malajˈsiə]
[neˈpali]
Ethnicity
Malaysian people
Gurkha, Khas people, Madhesi and Tharu
Origin
c. 683 AD
19 BC
Language Family
Austronesian Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
-
Indo-Iranian
Branch
-
Indic
Language Forms
Early Forms
Ancient Malay, Old Malay, Pre-Modern MalayClassical Malay,
Khas language, Gurkhali, Parbatiya, Dzongkha Lhotshammikha
Standard Forms
Pluricentric Standard Malay
Nepali
Language Position
5459
1
120
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Signed Forms
Malaysian Sign Language
Signed Nepali
Scope
Individual
Individual, Macrolanguage
ISO 639 1
ms
ne
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
msa
nep
ISO 639 2/B
may
nep
ISO 639 3
zsm
npi
ISO 639 6
may
nep
Glottocode
stan1306
nepa1254
Linguasphere
No data available
12
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
Agglutinative