Countries
India, Nepal
Basque Autonomous Community, Navarre
Total No. Of Countries
22
0
46
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National Language
Nepal
France, Spain
Second Language
Republic of Brazil
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia, Europe
Minority Language
People's Republic of China
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Language Academy of Nepal
Euskaltzaindia, 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.
- The Basque language is the oldest European language.
- Basque alphabet include many Roman letters.
Similar To
Hindi
Spanish
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
4827
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
125
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3621
9
60
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Scripts
Devanagari
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
63
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks88 weeks
3
88
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Hello
नमस्ते (namaste)
Kaixo
Thank You
धन्यवाद (dhanyabad)
Eskerrik asko
How Are You?
तिमीलाई कस्तो छ? (timi lai kasto cha?)
Zer moduz?
Good Night
शुभ रात्री (subha ratri)
Gabon
Good Evening
शुभ सन्ध्या (subha sandhya)
Arratsalde on
Good Afternoon
Good afternoon
Arratsalde on
Good Morning
शुभ प्रभात (subha prabhat)
Egun on
Please
कृपया
Mesedez
Sorry
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
Barkatu
Bye
नमस्ते (namaste)
Agur
I Love You
म तपाइलाइ माया गर्छु। (ma tapainlai maya garchu)
Maite zaitut
Excuse Me
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
Barkatu
Dialect 1
Doteli
Navarro-Lapurdian
Where They Speak
Nepal
France
How Many People Speak
790,000.0068,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Bajhangi
Souletin
Where They Speak
India, Nepal
France, Soule, Spain
How Many People Speak
17,000,000.008,700.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Baitadeli
Biscayan
Where They Speak
Nepal
Spain
How Many People Speak
17,000,000.00750,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
126
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
30.00 million7.20 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.25 %0.12 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
25.00 million7.20 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
5.00 million0.70 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
नेपाली (nēpālī)
Euskara
Alternative Names
Eastern Pahadi, Gorkhali, Gurkhali, Khaskura, Nepalese, Parbate
Euskara, Euskera, Vascuense
French Name
népalais
basque
German Name
Nepali
Baskisch
Pronunciation
[neˈpali]
[bɑːsk]
Ethnicity
Gurkha, Khas people, Madhesi and Tharu
Basque people
Origin
19 BC
c. 1000
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Vasconic Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
-
Branch
Indic
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Khas language, Gurkhali, Parbatiya, Dzongkha Lhotshammikha
Proto-Basque, Aquitanian
Standard Forms
Nepali
Basque
Language Position
5930
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Nepali
Basque Sign Language
Scope
Individual, Macrolanguage
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ISO 639 1
ne
eu
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
nep
eus
ISO 639 2/B
nep
baq
ISO 639 3
npi
eus
ISO 639 6
nep
eus
Glottocode
nepa1254
basq1248
Linguasphere
12
40-AAA-a
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
-
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
Agglutinative