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Nepali
Nepali

Burmese
Burmese



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Countries

Countries

India, Nepal
Myanmar

Total No. Of Countries

21
0 46
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National Language

Nepal
Myanmar

Second Language

Republic of Brazil
Bangladesh, Burma

Speaking Continents

Asia
Asia

Minority Language

People's Republic of China
Mon

Regulated By

Language Academy of Nepal
Myanmar Language Commission

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 naming of people in Burmese is strange. There is no last name, often name is rhymed such as Ming Ming, Mo Mo or Jo Jo.
  • It appears as odd language to many people because it has peculiar pitch register, tonal form as language.

Similar To

Hindi
Thai Language

Derived From

Sanskrit Language
Pali Language

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

4833
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

1212
0 32
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How Many Consonants

3633
9 60
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Scripts

Devanagari
Tangut

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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Greetings

Hello

नमस्ते (namaste)
မင်္ဂလာပါ (maingalarpar)

Thank You

धन्यवाद (dhanyabad)
ကျေးဇူးတင်ပါသည် (kyaayyjuutainparsai)

How Are You?

तिमीलाई कस्तो छ? (timi lai kasto cha?)
နေကောင်းလား? (naykaungglarr?)

Good Night

शुभ रात्री (subha ratri)
ကောင်းသောညပါ (kaunggsawnyapar)

Good Evening

शुभ सन्ध्या (subha sandhya)
မင်္ဂလာညနေခင်းပါ (main g lar nyanayhkainn par)

Good Afternoon

Good afternoon
မင်္ဂလာနေ့လည်ခင်းပါ (main g lar naelaihkainn par)

Good Morning

शुभ प्रभात (subha prabhat)
မင်္ဂလာနံနက်ခင်းပါ (main g lar nannaathkainnpar)

Please

कृपया
ကျေးဇူးပြု (kyaayyjuupyu)

Sorry

माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
တောင်းပန်ပါတယ် (taunggpaanpartaal)

Bye

नमस्ते (namaste)
နုတ်ဆက်ပါတယ် (notesaatpartaal)

I Love You

म तपाइलाइ माया गर्छु। (ma tapainlai maya garchu)
မင်းကိုချစ်တယ် (mainnkohkyittaal)

Excuse Me

माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
ဆင်ခြေဆင်လက် ငါ့ကိုအ (Sainhkyaysainlaat ngarko a)

Dialects

Dialect 1

Doteli
Arakanese

Where They Speak

Nepal
Bangladesh, India, Myanmar

How Many People Speak

790,000.002,000,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Bajhangi
Tavoyan

Where They Speak

India, Nepal
Myanmar

How Many People Speak

17,000,000.00440,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Baitadeli
Intha

Where They Speak

Nepal
Burma

How Many People Speak

17,000,000.0090,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

125
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

30.00 million43.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.25 %0.50 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

25.00 million33.00 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

5.00 million10.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

नेपाली (nēpālī)
ဗမာစကား (bama saka)

Alternative Names

Eastern Pahadi, Gorkhali, Gurkhali, Khaskura, Nepalese, Parbate
Bama, Bamachaka, Myanmar, Myen, myanma bhasa

French Name

népalais
birman

German Name

Nepali
Birmanisch

Pronunciation

[neˈpali]
[bəmɛ̀]

Ethnicity

Gurkha, Khas people, Madhesi and Tharu
Bamar people

History

Origin

19 BC
1113 AD

Language Family

Indo-European Family
Sino-Tibetan Family

Subgroup

Indo-Iranian
Tibeto-Burman

Branch

Indic
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Language Forms

Early Forms

Khas language, Gurkhali, Parbatiya, Dzongkha Lhotshammikha
Old Burmese, Middle Burmese, Burmese

Standard Forms

Nepali
Modern Burmese

Language Position

5943
1 120
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Signed Forms

Signed Nepali
Burmese sign language

Scope

Individual, Macrolanguage
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

ne
my

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

nep
mya

ISO 639 2/B

nep
bur

ISO 639 3

npi
mya

ISO 639 6

nep
mya

Glottocode

nepa1254
sout3159

Linguasphere

12
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Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Object-Verb

Language Morphological Typology

Agglutinative
Analytic, Isolating

Nepali and Burmese Alphabets

Nepali and Burmese Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Nepali and Burmese. In Nepali Alphabets there are 48 letters while in Burmese Alphabets there are 33 letters. To learn Nepali and Burmese languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Nepali and Burmese languages. The Nepali phonology consist Nepali vowels and Nepali consonants. After alphabets, words are to be learned and after words, phrases in that language. Take a look at Nepali greetings vs Burmese greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Nepali and Burmese are Most Spoken Languages.

All Nepali and Burmese Dialects

Most languages have dialects where each dialect differ from other dialect with respect to grammar and vocabulary. Here you will get to know all Nepali and Burmese dialects. Various dialects of Nepali and Burmese language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Nepali are spoken in different Nepali Speaking Countries whereas Burmese Dialects are spoken in different Burmese speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Nepali vs Burmese Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Nepali dialects include: Doteli, Bajhangi. Burmese dialects include: Arakanese , Tavoyan. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

Nepali and Burmese Speaking population

Nepali and Burmese speaking population is one of the factors based on which Nepali and Burmese languages can be compared. The total count of Nepali and Burmese Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Nepali language is 0.25 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Burmese language is 0.50 %. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak Nepali and Burmese on Nepali vs Burmese where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Nepali and Burmese Language Codes

Nepali and Burmese language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Nepali and Burmese Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.