Countries
India, Nepal
Afganistan, Iran, Oman, Pakistan
Total No. Of Countries
24
0
46
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National Language
Nepal
Iran
Second Language
Republic of Brazil
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
People's Republic of China
India, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, United Arab Emirates
Regulated By
Language Academy of Nepal
Balochi Academy, 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.
- Balochi language had no written form before the early 19th century. The official language used until that time was Persian.
- Balochi has borrowed words from Persian, Arabic, Sindhi, and other languages.
Similar To
Hindi
Kurdish and Persian
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
Ancient Indo-Iranian Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
4834
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
128
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3626
9
60
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Scripts
Devanagari
Perso-Arabic script
Writing Direction
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)
Salam
Thank You
धन्यवाद (dhanyabad)
mana bebahgsh
How Are You?
तिमीलाई कस्तो छ? (timi lai kasto cha?)
chone tao?
Good Night
शुभ रात्री (subha ratri)
jawáin shap
Good Evening
शुभ सन्ध्या (subha sandhya)
jawáin begáh
Good Afternoon
Good afternoon
سلام علیکم
Good Morning
शुभ प्रभात (subha prabhat)
jawáin sawáh
Please
कृपया
Mihrabani kan
Sorry
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
bebaksh / bebagsh
Bye
नमस्ते (namaste)
bye
I Love You
म तपाइलाइ माया गर्छु। (ma tapainlai maya garchu)
Tu mana doost biyeh
Excuse Me
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
mana bebahgsh
Dialect 1
Doteli
Eastern Balochi
Where They Speak
Nepal
Pakistan
How Many People Speak
790,000.005,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Bajhangi
Western Balochi
Where They Speak
India, Nepal
Afganistan, Iran, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan
How Many People Speak
17,000,000.001,800,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Baitadeli
Southern Balochi
Where They Speak
Nepal
Iran, Oman, Pakistan, United Arab Emirates
How Many People Speak
17,000,000.003,400,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
123
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
30.00 million7.60 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.25 %0.11 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
25.00 million7.60 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
5.00 million8.50 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
नेपाली (nēpālī)
بلوچی
Alternative Names
Eastern Pahadi, Gorkhali, Gurkhali, Khaskura, Nepalese, Parbate
Baluchi
French Name
népalais
baloutchi
German Name
Nepali
Belutschisch
Pronunciation
[neˈpali]
[bəˈloʧi]
Ethnicity
Gurkha, Khas people, Madhesi and Tharu
Predominantly Baloch, some Brahui
Origin
19 BC
19th Century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
-
Branch
Indic
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Khas language, Gurkhali, Parbatiya, Dzongkha Lhotshammikha
No early forms
Standard Forms
Nepali
Balochi
Language Position
5939
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Nepali
Balochi Sign Language
Scope
Individual, Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 1
ne
No data available
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
nep
bal
ISO 639 2/B
nep
bal
ISO 639 3
npi
bal
ISO 639 6
nep
bal
Glottocode
nepa1254
balo1260
Linguasphere
12
58-AAB-a
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
-
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
-