Countries
India, Nepal
Bulgaria, European Union
Total No. Of Countries
22
0
46
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National Language
Nepal
Bulgaria
Second Language
Republic of Brazil
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Africa, Europe
Minority Language
People's Republic of China
Hungary, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Ukraine
Regulated By
Language Academy of Nepal
Institute for the Bulgarian language
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 only Slavic language which has lost all its grammatical cases is Bulgarian.
- The first Slavic language to be written was Bulgarian in 9th century.
Similar To
Hindi
Macedonian language
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
4830
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
126
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
3636
9
60
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Scripts
Devanagari
Cyrillic
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)
Здравейте (Zdraveĭte)
Thank You
धन्यवाद (dhanyabad)
Благодаря ти (blagodarya ti)
How Are You?
तिमीलाई कस्तो छ? (timi lai kasto cha?)
Как си? (Kak si?)
Good Night
शुभ रात्री (subha ratri)
Лека нощ (Leka nošt)
Good Evening
शुभ सन्ध्या (subha sandhya)
Добър вечер (Dobãr večer)
Good Afternoon
Good afternoon
Добър ден (Dobãr den)
Good Morning
शुभ प्रभात (subha prabhat)
Добро утро (Dobro utro)
Please
कृपया
Моля (Molja)
Sorry
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
Съжалявам (Sãžaljavam)
Bye
नमस्ते (namaste)
Довиждане (Doviždane)
I Love You
म तपाइलाइ माया गर्छु। (ma tapainlai maya garchu)
Обичам те (Običam te)
Excuse Me
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
Извинете ме (Izvinete me)
Dialect 1
Doteli
Kotel-Elena-Dryanovo
Where They Speak
Nepal
Bulgaria
How Many People Speak
790,000.009,200,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Bajhangi
Panagyurishte
Where They Speak
India, Nepal
Bulgaria
How Many People Speak
17,000,000.009,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Baitadeli
Pirdop
Where They Speak
Nepal
Bulgaria
How Many People Speak
17,000,000.009,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
1258
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
30.00 million7.80 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.25 %0.21 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
25.00 million7.80 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
5.00 million9.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
नेपाली (nēpālī)
български (bãlgarski)
Alternative Names
Eastern Pahadi, Gorkhali, Gurkhali, Khaskura, Nepalese, Parbate
Balgarski
French Name
népalais
bulgare
German Name
Nepali
Bulgarisch
Pronunciation
[neˈpali]
[ˈbɤɫɡɐrski]
Ethnicity
Gurkha, Khas people, Madhesi and Tharu
Bulgarian people
Origin
19 BC
9th Century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Slavic
Branch
Indic
Southern
Language Forms
Early Forms
Khas language, Gurkhali, Parbatiya, Dzongkha Lhotshammikha
Old Bulgarian, Middle Bulgarian, Modern Bulgarian
Standard Forms
Nepali
Standard Bulgarian
Language Position
5988
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Nepali
Bulgarian Sign Language
Scope
Individual, Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 1
ne
bg
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
nep
bul
ISO 639 2/B
nep
bul
ISO 639 3
npi
bul
ISO 639 6
nep
buls
Glottocode
nepa1254
bulg1262
Linguasphere
12
53-AAA-hb
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
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