Countries
United States of America
India, Nepal
Total No. Of Countries
12
0
46
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National Language
United States of America
Nepal
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Republic of Brazil
Speaking Continents
North America
Asia
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
People's Republic of China
Regulated By
-
Language Academy of Nepal
Interesting Facts
- Navajo language is tonal language, as it heavily relies on pitch to distinguish between similar words.
- Navajo ethinc group is 2nd largest Native American group.
- 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
Apache Language
Hindi
Derived From
-
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3648
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
1212
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
3436
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Devanagari
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
26
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
88 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Yá'át'ééh
नमस्ते (namaste)
Thank You
Ahéhee'
धन्यवाद (dhanyabad)
How Are You?
Ąąʼ haʼíí baa naniná?
तिमीलाई कस्तो छ? (timi lai kasto cha?)
Good Night
Yá'át'ééh hiiłchi'į'
शुभ रात्री (subha ratri)
Good Evening
Yá'át'ééh ałní'íní
शुभ सन्ध्या (subha sandhya)
Good Afternoon
Yá'át'ééh
Good afternoon
Good Morning
Yá'át'ééh abíní
शुभ प्रभात (subha prabhat)
Please
T'aa shoodi
कृपया
Sorry
Nízhdził
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
Bye
Hágoónee’
नमस्ते (namaste)
I Love You
Ayóó ánííníshí
म तपाइलाइ माया गर्छु। (ma tapainlai maya garchu)
Excuse Me
Shoohá
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
Dialect 1
Navajo1
Doteli
Where They Speak
Arizona
Nepal
How Many People Speak
170,000.00790,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Navajo2
Bajhangi
Where They Speak
New Mexico
India, Nepal
How Many People Speak
170,000.0017,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Navajo3
Baitadeli
Where They Speak
Utah
Nepal
How Many People Speak
120,000.0017,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
412
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
1.70 million30.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.05 %0.25 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
1.70 million25.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
0.17 million5.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
Diné Bizaad / Dinék'ehjí
नेपाली (nēpālī)
Alternative Names
Navaho
Eastern Pahadi, Gorkhali, Gurkhali, Khaskura, Nepalese, Parbate
French Name
navaho
népalais
German Name
Navajo-Sprache
Nepali
Pronunciation
[ˈnævəhoʊ]
[neˈpali]
Ethnicity
Navajo people
Gurkha, Khas people, Madhesi and Tharu
Origin
1500 CE
19 BC
Language Family
Dené–Yeniseian Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Athapascan
Indo-Iranian
Branch
-
Indic
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Khas language, Gurkhali, Parbatiya, Dzongkha Lhotshammikha
Standard Forms
Navajo
Nepali
Language Position
2959
1
120
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Signed Forms
Navajo Sign Language
Signed Nepali
Scope
Individual
Individual, Macrolanguage
ISO 639 1
nv
ne
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
nav
nep
ISO 639 2/B
nav
nep
ISO 639 3
nav
npi
ISO 639 6
nav
nep
Glottocode
nava1243
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
Fusional, Polysynthetic, Synthetic
Agglutinative