Countries
India, Nepal
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Total No. Of Countries
22
0
46
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National Language
Nepal
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Second Language
Republic of Brazil
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Europe
Minority Language
People's Republic of China
Croatia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia
Regulated By
Language Academy of Nepal
University of Sarajevo
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.
- South Slavic language group developed Bosnian Language.
- The muslim Bosnians are referred as "Bosniaks", who are the primary speakers of Bosnian language.
Similar To
Hindi
Serbian and Croatian
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
4830
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
125
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3625
9
60
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Scripts
Devanagari
Cyrillic, Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
65
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
नमस्ते (namaste)
Zdravo
Thank You
धन्यवाद (dhanyabad)
Hvala
How Are You?
तिमीलाई कस्तो छ? (timi lai kasto cha?)
Kako si?
Good Night
शुभ रात्री (subha ratri)
Laku noc
Good Evening
शुभ सन्ध्या (subha sandhya)
Dobro veće
Good Afternoon
Good afternoon
Dobar dan
Good Morning
शुभ प्रभात (subha prabhat)
Dobro jutro
Please
कृपया
molim vas
Sorry
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
Oprostite
Bye
नमस्ते (namaste)
Zbogom
I Love You
म तपाइलाइ माया गर्छु। (ma tapainlai maya garchu)
Volim te
Excuse Me
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
Oprostite
Dialect 1
Doteli
Shtokavian
Where They Speak
Nepal
Bosnia, Croatia, Herzegovina, Hungary, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia
How Many People Speak
790,000.0013,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Bajhangi
Chakavian
Where They Speak
India, Nepal
Croatia
How Many People Speak
17,000,000.00660,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Baitadeli
Kajkavian
Where They Speak
Nepal
Croatia
How Many People Speak
17,000,000.0021,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
126
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
30.00 million3.50 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.25 %0.13 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
25.00 million3.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
5.00 million20.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
नेपाली (nēpālī)
bosanski / босански / بۉسانسقى
Alternative Names
Eastern Pahadi, Gorkhali, Gurkhali, Khaskura, Nepalese, Parbate
Bosanski Jezik
French Name
népalais
bosniaque
German Name
Nepali
Bosnisch
Pronunciation
[neˈpali]
[bɔ̌sanskiː]
Ethnicity
Gurkha, Khas people, Madhesi and Tharu
Bosniaks
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
Bosnian
Language Position
5924
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Nepali
Bosnian Sign Language
Scope
Individual, Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 1
ne
bs
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
nep
bos
ISO 639 2/B
nep
bos
ISO 639 3
npi
bos
ISO 639 6
nep
boss
Glottocode
nepa1254
bosn1245
Linguasphere
12
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Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
-
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
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