Countries
India, Nepal
India
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
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National Language
Nepal
Bangladesh, India
Second Language
Republic of Brazil
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
People's Republic of China
Bangladesh, Bhutan
Regulated By
Language Academy of Nepal
Asam Sahitya Sabha
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.
- Assamese was reinstated as the state language of Assam in 1873.
- Assamese language has its own stream of origin, it is evolved in a different way from rest of the Indo-Aryan languages of India.
Similar To
Hindi
Bengali and Oriya
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
4852
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
1211
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3641
9
60
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Scripts
Devanagari
Bengali
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)
nomoskaar
Thank You
धन्यवाद (dhanyabad)
ḍhonyobaaḍ
How Are You?
तिमीलाई कस्तो छ? (timi lai kasto cha?)
aapuni kene aase?
Good Night
शुभ रात्री (subha ratri)
subhoraattri
Good Evening
शुभ सन्ध्या (subha sandhya)
subha gadhuli
Good Afternoon
Good afternoon
subha abeli
Good Morning
शुभ प्रभात (subha prabhat)
suprobhaat
Please
कृपया
anugroha kori
Sorry
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
moi ḍukkhita
Bye
नमस्ते (namaste)
biḍai
I Love You
म तपाइलाइ माया गर्छु। (ma tapainlai maya garchu)
moi tomaak bhaalpaao
Excuse Me
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
kyoma koribo
Dialect 1
Doteli
Kamrupi
Where They Speak
Nepal
Western Assam
How Many People Speak
790,000.006,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Bajhangi
Goalpariya
Where They Speak
India, Nepal
Western Assam
How Many People Speak
17,000,000.0016,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Baitadeli
Bhakatiya
Where They Speak
Nepal
Assam
How Many People Speak
17,000,000.0016,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
123
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
30.00 million15.30 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.25 %0.24 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
25.00 million15.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
5.00 million15.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
नेपाली (nēpālī)
অসমীয়া (asamīẏa)
Alternative Names
Eastern Pahadi, Gorkhali, Gurkhali, Khaskura, Nepalese, Parbate
Asambe, Asami, Asamiya
French Name
népalais
assamais
German Name
Nepali
Assamesisch
Pronunciation
[neˈpali]
[ɔxɔmɔnɔ]
Ethnicity
Gurkha, Khas people, Madhesi and Tharu
Assamese people
Origin
19 BC
7th century A.D
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Indo-Iranian
Branch
Indic
Indic
Language Forms
Early Forms
Khas language, Gurkhali, Parbatiya, Dzongkha Lhotshammikha
Kamarupa
Standard Forms
Nepali
Assamese
Language Position
5965
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Nepali
Signed Assamese
Scope
Individual, Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 1
ne
as
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
nep
asm
ISO 639 2/B
nep
asm
ISO 639 3
npi
asm
ISO 639 6
nep
asm
Glottocode
nepa1254
assa1263
Linguasphere
12
59-AAF-w
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
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