Countries
Burkina Faso
India, Nepal
Total No. Of Countries
12
0
46
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National Language
Benin, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Ivory coast, Mali, Togo
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
- Mossi languages use pitch to distinguish meanings.
- Mossi is the 2nd largest ethnic group in Ivory Coast.
- 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
Dagbani Language
Hindi
Derived From
-
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2648
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
812
0
32
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How Many Consonants
1636
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Devanagari
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
36
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
30 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Kia ora
नमस्ते (namaste)
Thank You
Laafi bala
धन्यवाद (dhanyabad)
How Are You?
Laafi beme ?
तिमीलाई कस्तो छ? (timi lai kasto cha?)
Good Night
Ne y yungo
शुभ रात्री (subha ratri)
Good Evening
ne y zabre
शुभ सन्ध्या (subha sandhya)
Good Afternoon
Kia ora
Good afternoon
Good Morning
Ne y yibeogo
शुभ प्रभात (subha prabhat)
Please
gafare
कृपया
Sorry
gafare
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
Bye
Wend na kon-d nindaare
नमस्ते (namaste)
I Love You
Kei te aroha au ki a koe
म तपाइलाइ माया गर्छु। (ma tapainlai maya garchu)
Excuse Me
Y gafare
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
Dialect 1
Ouapadoupou
Doteli
Where They Speak
Burkina Faso
Nepal
How Many People Speak
7,000,000.00790,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Saremde
Bajhangi
Where They Speak
Burkina Faso
India, Nepal
How Many People Speak
7,000,000.0017,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Taolende
Baitadeli
Where They Speak
Burkina Faso
Nepal
How Many People Speak
7,000,000.0017,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
812
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
7.60 million30.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.11 %0.25 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
7.60 million25.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
5.00 million5.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Mosse
नेपाली (nēpālī)
Alternative Names
Mossi, Mòoré, Mooré, More, Moshi, Mole, Mosi, Mòoré, Moré, More, Moshi, Mole, Mosi
Eastern Pahadi, Gorkhali, Gurkhali, Khaskura, Nepalese, Parbate
French Name
moré
népalais
German Name
Mossi-Sprache
Nepali
Pronunciation
[mɔ̀ːsì]
[neˈpali]
Ethnicity
Mossi
Gurkha, Khas people, Madhesi and Tharu
Origin
11th Century AD
19 BC
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Western Sudanic
Indo-Iranian
Branch
Gur (Voltaic)
Indic
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Khas language, Gurkhali, Parbatiya, Dzongkha Lhotshammikha
Standard Forms
Mossi
Nepali
Language Position
3759
1
120
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Signed Forms
Mossi Sign Language
Signed Nepali
Scope
Individual
Individual, Macrolanguage
ISO 639 1
No data Available
ne
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
mos
nep
ISO 639 2/B
mos
nep
ISO 639 3
mos
npi
ISO 639 6
mos
nep
Glottocode
moss1236
nepa1254
Linguasphere
No data Available
12
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
-
Agglutinative