Countries
India, Nepal
South Africa
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
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National Language
Nepal
South Africa
Second Language
Republic of Brazil
Namibia, South Africa
Speaking Continents
Asia
Africa
Minority Language
People's Republic of China
Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Swaziland, Zambia, Zimbabwe
Regulated By
Language Academy of Nepal
Die Taalkommissie, National Languages Committee
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.
- Afrikaans Language is a mixture of English, Dutch, German, French and some South African language like Xhosa.
- Afrikaans Language lacks case and gender distinctions.
Similar To
Hindi
Dutch Language
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
Dutch Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
4832
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
1215
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
3617
9
60
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Scripts
Devanagari
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
63
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks24 weeks
3
88
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Hello
नमस्ते (namaste)
hallo
Thank You
धन्यवाद (dhanyabad)
Dankie
How Are You?
तिमीलाई कस्तो छ? (timi lai kasto cha?)
Hoe gaan dit
Good Night
शुभ रात्री (subha ratri)
goeie nag
Good Evening
शुभ सन्ध्या (subha sandhya)
Goeienaand
Good Afternoon
Good afternoon
Goeie middag
Good Morning
शुभ प्रभात (subha prabhat)
goeie more
Please
कृपया
asseblief
Sorry
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
jammer
Bye
नमस्ते (namaste)
Totsiens
I Love You
म तपाइलाइ माया गर्छु। (ma tapainlai maya garchu)
Ek het jou lief
Excuse Me
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
Verskoon my
Dialect 1
Doteli
Kaapse Afrikaans
Where They Speak
Nepal
-
How Many People Speak
790,000.007,700,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Bajhangi
Oranjeriverafrikaans
Where They Speak
India, Nepal
-
How Many People Speak
17,000,000.007,700,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Baitadeli
Baster Afrikaans
Where They Speak
Nepal
Namibia
How Many People Speak
17,000,000.007.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
123
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
30.00 million19.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.25 %0.03 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
25.00 million7.10 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
5.00 million10.30 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
नेपाली (nēpālī)
Afrikaans
Alternative Names
Eastern Pahadi, Gorkhali, Gurkhali, Khaskura, Nepalese, Parbate
Cape Dutch
French Name
népalais
afrikaans
German Name
Nepali
Afrikaans
Pronunciation
[neˈpali]
[ɐfriˈkɑːns]
Ethnicity
Gurkha, Khas people, Madhesi and Tharu
Afrikaners
Origin
19 BC
17th Century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Germanic
Branch
Indic
Western
Language Forms
Early Forms
Khas language, Gurkhali, Parbatiya, Dzongkha Lhotshammikha
Cape dutch or kitchen dutch
Standard Forms
Nepali
Standard Afrikaans
Language Position
5923
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Nepali
Signed Afrikaans (signs of SASL)
Scope
Individual, Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 1
ne
af
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
nep
afr
ISO 639 2/B
nep
afr
ISO 639 3
npi
afr
ISO 639 6
nep
afrs
Glottocode
nepa1254
afri1274
Linguasphere
12
52-ACB-ba
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
Analytic