Countries
India, Nepal
Ghana, Ivory coast
Total No. Of Countries
22
0
46
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National Language
Nepal
Ghana
Second Language
Republic of Brazil
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Africa
Minority Language
People's Republic of China
Benin, United States of America
Regulated By
Language Academy of Nepal
Akan Orthography 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.
- Ghana has over 100 ethnic groups living, and Akan is one of the largest tribe.
- Akan language came in South America, notably Suriname and Jamaica through slave trade.
Similar To
Hindi
Ewe and Ga-Dangme Languages
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
4821
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
1210
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3616
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
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
नमस्ते (namaste)
ete-sen
Thank You
धन्यवाद (dhanyabad)
meda ase
How Are You?
तिमीलाई कस्तो छ? (timi lai kasto cha?)
wo ho te sɛn?
Good Night
शुभ रात्री (subha ratri)
maadwo
Good Evening
शुभ सन्ध्या (subha sandhya)
maadwo
Good Afternoon
Good afternoon
maaha
Good Morning
शुभ प्रभात (subha prabhat)
maakye
Please
कृपया
wae
Sorry
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
Kafra
Bye
नमस्ते (namaste)
bye
I Love You
म तपाइलाइ माया गर्छु। (ma tapainlai maya garchu)
Me doכ wo
Excuse Me
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
mepa wo kyɛw
Dialect 1
Doteli
Asante
Where They Speak
Nepal
Ghana
How Many People Speak
790,000.009,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Bajhangi
Akuapem
Where They Speak
India, Nepal
Ghana
How Many People Speak
17,000,000.009,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Baitadeli
Fante
Where They Speak
Nepal
Ghana
How Many People Speak
17,000,000.001,900,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
123
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
30.00 million11.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.25 %0.17 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
25.00 million11.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
5.00 million21.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
नेपाली (nēpālī)
Akan
Alternative Names
Eastern Pahadi, Gorkhali, Gurkhali, Khaskura, Nepalese, Parbate
Twi, Fante
French Name
népalais
akan
German Name
Nepali
Akan-Sprache
Pronunciation
[neˈpali]
[ˈaːkã]
Ethnicity
Gurkha, Khas people, Madhesi and Tharu
Akan people
Origin
19 BC
15
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Niger-Congo Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
-
Branch
Indic
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Khas language, Gurkhali, Parbatiya, Dzongkha Lhotshammikha
No early forms
Standard Forms
Nepali
Akan
Language Position
59104
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Nepali
Akan Sign Language
Scope
Individual, Macrolanguage
Macrolanguage
ISO 639 1
ne
ak
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
nep
aka
ISO 639 2/B
nep
aka
ISO 639 3
npi
aka
ISO 639 6
nep
aka
Glottocode
nepa1254
akan1251
Linguasphere
12
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
-
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
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