Countries
India, Nepal
Autonomous Republic of Abkhazia, Georgia, Republic of Abkhazia
Total No. Of Countries
23
0
46
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National Language
Nepal
Abkhazia
Second Language
Republic of Brazil
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Europe
Minority Language
People's Republic of China
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Language Academy of Nepal
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Interesting Facts
- 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.
- Abkhaz is a north-west Caucasian language.
- Abkhaz is spoken in Abkhazia by only 100,000 people, while in Turkey there are 500,000 people speaking Abkhaz.
Similar To
Hindi
Adyghe language, Abaza language
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
Caucasian languages
Alphabets in
Alphabets
4862
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
122
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3660
9
60
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Scripts
Devanagari
Cyrillic
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
66
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks27 weeks
3
88
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Hello
नमस्ते (namaste)
Бзиа збаша (Bzia zbaşa)
Thank You
धन्यवाद (dhanyabad)
Иҭабуп (It̢abup)
How Are You?
तिमीलाई कस्तो छ? (timi lai kasto cha?)
Ушҧаҟоу? (Ušṗaꝁou?)
Good Night
शुभ रात्री (subha ratri)
Ашара шәзыбзиарахааит (Ašara šəzybziaraxaait)
Good Evening
शुभ सन्ध्या (subha sandhya)
Уа, мшы бзиа (Ua, mšy bzia)
Good Afternoon
Good afternoon
Уа, мшы бзиа (Ua, mšy bzia)
Good Morning
शुभ प्रभात (subha prabhat)
Уа, Шьыжьы бзиа (Ua, Š’yž’y bzia)
Please
कृपया
амритана
Sorry
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
Амарахь
Bye
नमस्ते (namaste)
Абзиараз (Abziaraz)
I Love You
म तपाइलाइ माया गर्छु। (ma tapainlai maya garchu)
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Excuse Me
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
Извините (Izvinite)
Dialect 1
Doteli
Bzyb
Where They Speak
Nepal
Abkhazia
How Many People Speak
790,000.00106,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Bajhangi
Abzhywa
Where They Speak
India, Nepal
Caucasus
How Many People Speak
17,000,000.00106,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Baitadeli
Sadz
Where They Speak
Nepal
Turkey
How Many People Speak
17,000,000.00106,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
123
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
30.00 million0.13 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.25 %0.01 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
25.00 million0.13 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
5.00 million-
0.01
400
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Native Name
नेपाली (nēpālī)
аҧсуа бызшәа (aṗsua byzš˚a)
Alternative Names
Eastern Pahadi, Gorkhali, Gurkhali, Khaskura, Nepalese, Parbate
Abxazo, Abkhazian
French Name
népalais
abkhaze
German Name
Nepali
Abchasisch
Pronunciation
[neˈpali]
[abxaz]
Ethnicity
Gurkha, Khas people, Madhesi and Tharu
Abkhaz people
Origin
19 BC
c. 1650
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Northwest Caucasian
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
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Branch
Indic
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Language Forms
Early Forms
Khas language, Gurkhali, Parbatiya, Dzongkha Lhotshammikha
No early forms
Standard Forms
Nepali
Abkhaz
Language Position
5928
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Nepali
Abkhaz Sign Language
Scope
Individual, Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 1
ne
ab
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
nep
abk
ISO 639 2/B
nep
abk
ISO 639 3
npi
abk
ISO 639 6
nep
abks
Glottocode
nepa1254
abkh1244
Linguasphere
12
No data Available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Historical
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
Agglutinative