Countries
India, Nepal
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Russia, Syria, Turkey
Total No. Of Countries
27
0
46
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National Language
Nepal
Azerbaijan, Gambia
Second Language
Republic of Brazil
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
People's Republic of China
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Language Academy of Nepal
Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences
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.
- Even though Official language of Azerbaijan is Azerbaijani, the Business language is Azerbaijani, English and Russian.
- Azerbaijan is known as “Land of Fire”, is country with unique culture and spellbinding history.
Similar To
Hindi
Turkish
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
Osmanly language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
4832
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
129
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3623
9
60
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Scripts
Devanagari
Latin
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 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
नमस्ते (namaste)
Salam
Thank You
धन्यवाद (dhanyabad)
Təşəkkür edirəm
How Are You?
तिमीलाई कस्तो छ? (timi lai kasto cha?)
necəsən
Good Night
शुभ रात्री (subha ratri)
yaxşı gecə
Good Evening
शुभ सन्ध्या (subha sandhya)
Axşamınız xeyir
Good Afternoon
Good afternoon
Günortanız Xeyir
Good Morning
शुभ प्रभात (subha prabhat)
Sabahınız xeyir
Please
कृपया
lütfən
Sorry
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
üzr
Bye
नमस्ते (namaste)
xudafiz
I Love You
म तपाइलाइ माया गर्छु। (ma tapainlai maya garchu)
Mən səni sevirəm
Excuse Me
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
Bağışlayın
Dialect 1
Doteli
Derbent
Where They Speak
Nepal
Russia
How Many People Speak
790,000.0037,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Bajhangi
Gazakh
Where They Speak
India, Nepal
Azerbaijan
How Many People Speak
17,000,000.0037,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Baitadeli
Baku
Where They Speak
Nepal
Azerbaijan
How Many People Speak
17,000,000.0037.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
1233
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
30.00 million26.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.25 %0.34 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
25.00 million23.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
5.00 million25.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
नेपाली (nēpālī)
Azərbaycan dili / Азәрбајҹан дили / آذربايجانجا ديلي
Alternative Names
Eastern Pahadi, Gorkhali, Gurkhali, Khaskura, Nepalese, Parbate
Azeri, Azari, Azeri Turkish, Azerbaijani Turkish
French Name
népalais
azéri
German Name
Nepali
Aserbeidschanisch
Pronunciation
[neˈpali]
[ɑzærbɑjdʒɑn dili]
Ethnicity
Gurkha, Khas people, Madhesi and Tharu
Azerbaijani
Origin
19 BC
16th Century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Turkic Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Turkic
Branch
Indic
Southwestern(Oghuz)
Language Forms
Early Forms
Khas language, Gurkhali, Parbatiya, Dzongkha Lhotshammikha
No early forms
Standard Forms
Nepali
Azerbaijani
Language Position
5938
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Nepali
Signed Azerbaijani
Scope
Individual, Macrolanguage
Macrolanguage
ISO 639 1
ne
az
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
nep
aze
ISO 639 2/B
nep
aze
ISO 639 3
npi
aze
ISO 639 6
nep
aze
Glottocode
nepa1254
azer1255
Linguasphere
12
44-AAB-a
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
Agglutinative