Countries
India, Nepal
Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia.
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
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National Language
Nepal
Ethiopia
Second Language
Republic of Brazil
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Africa
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.
- Amharic ranks as second most spoken Semitic language in the world.
- Amharic has its own writing system named “fidel” and it uses Amharic alphabets to write.
Similar To
Hindi
Tigrinya and Oromo Languages
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
4833
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
127
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3631
9
60
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Scripts
Devanagari
Ethiopic
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 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
नमस्ते (namaste)
Selam
Thank You
धन्यवाद (dhanyabad)
amesege'nallo'
How Are You?
तिमीलाई कस्तो छ? (timi lai kasto cha?)
Dehina newot?
Good Night
शुभ रात्री (subha ratri)
Dehna dur
Good Evening
शुभ सन्ध्या (subha sandhya)
melkam meshe't
Good Afternoon
Good afternoon
i'ndemin walu
Good Morning
शुभ प्रभात (subha prabhat)
i'ndemin adäru
Please
कृपया
i'bakwon
Sorry
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
aznallehu
Bye
नमस्ते (namaste)
tschao
I Love You
म तपाइलाइ माया गर्छु। (ma tapainlai maya garchu)
afekirishalehu
Excuse Me
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
yiqirta
Dialect 1
Doteli
Gondar
Where They Speak
Nepal
Gondar
How Many People Speak
790,000.0022,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Bajhangi
Gojjami
Where They Speak
India, Nepal
Ethiopia
How Many People Speak
17,000,000.0022,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Baitadeli
Showa
Where They Speak
Nepal
Ethiopia
How Many People Speak
17,000,000.0022,000,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
125
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
30.00 million18.70 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.25 %0.37 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
25.00 million25.00 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
5.00 million10.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
नेपाली (nēpālī)
አማርኛ
Alternative Names
Eastern Pahadi, Gorkhali, Gurkhali, Khaskura, Nepalese, Parbate
Abyssinian, Amarigna, Amarinya, Amhara, Ethiopian
French Name
népalais
amharique
German Name
Nepali
Amharisch
Pronunciation
[neˈpali]
[amarɨɲɲa]
Ethnicity
Gurkha, Khas people, Madhesi and Tharu
Amharas
Origin
19 BC
13th century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Semitic
Branch
Indic
Ethiopic
Language Forms
Early Forms
Khas language, Gurkhali, Parbatiya, Dzongkha Lhotshammikha
Ge'ez
Standard Forms
Nepali
Amharic
Language Position
5955
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Nepali
Signed Amharic
Scope
Individual, Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 1
ne
am
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
nep
amh
ISO 639 2/B
nep
amh
ISO 639 3
npi
amh
ISO 639 6
nep
amh
Glottocode
nepa1254
amha1245
Linguasphere
12
12-ACB-a
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
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Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
Fusional