Countries
India, Nepal
Philippines
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
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National Language
Nepal
Philippines
Second Language
Republic of Brazil
Philippines
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
People's Republic of China
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Language Academy of Nepal
Visayan Academy of Arts and Letters
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.
- About one-fifth of the population of the philippines speak cebuano and are second largest ethnolinguistic group in the country.
- Cebuano contains many words of Spanish origin.
Similar To
Hindi
Hiligaynon Language
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
Island of Cebu
Alphabets in
Alphabets
4821
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
125
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3616
9
60
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Scripts
Devanagari
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
62
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks3 weeks
3
88
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Hello
नमस्ते (namaste)
Hoy
Thank You
धन्यवाद (dhanyabad)
Salamat
How Are You?
तिमीलाई कस्तो छ? (timi lai kasto cha?)
Kumusta man ka?
Good Night
शुभ रात्री (subha ratri)
Maayong Gabii
Good Evening
शुभ सन्ध्या (subha sandhya)
Maayong Gabii
Good Afternoon
Good afternoon
Maayong Hapon
Good Morning
शुभ प्रभात (subha prabhat)
Maayong Buntag
Please
कृपया
Palihug
Sorry
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
Ikasubo ko
Bye
नमस्ते (namaste)
Babay
I Love You
म तपाइलाइ माया गर्छु। (ma tapainlai maya garchu)
Gihigugma ko ikaw
Excuse Me
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
Ekskyus mi
Dialect 1
Doteli
Boholano
Where They Speak
Nepal
Bohol
How Many People Speak
790,000.0021,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Bajhangi
Southern Kana
Where They Speak
India, Nepal
southern Leyte
How Many People Speak
17,000,000.0021,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Baitadeli
North Kana
Where They Speak
Nepal
northern part of Leyte
How Many People Speak
17,000,000.0020,000,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
124
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
30.00 million20.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.25 %0.32 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
25.00 million21.00 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
5.00 million14.50 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
नेपाली (nēpālī)
Visayan
Alternative Names
Eastern Pahadi, Gorkhali, Gurkhali, Khaskura, Nepalese, Parbate
Binisaya, Bisayan, Sebuano, Sugbuanon, Sugbuhanon, Visayan
French Name
népalais
cebuano
German Name
Nepali
Cebuano
Pronunciation
[neˈpali]
[sɛbuˈɑno]
Ethnicity
Gurkha, Khas people, Madhesi and Tharu
Cebuano people
Origin
19 BC
16th century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Austronesian Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
-
Branch
Indic
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Khas language, Gurkhali, Parbatiya, Dzongkha Lhotshammikha
No early forms
Standard Forms
Nepali
Standard Cebuano
Language Position
5962
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Nepali
Cebuano Sign Language
Scope
Individual, Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 1
ne
No data Available
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
nep
ceb
ISO 639 2/B
nep
ceb
ISO 639 3
npi
ceb
ISO 639 6
nep
ceb
Glottocode
nepa1254
cebu1242
Linguasphere
12
No data Available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Verb-Subject-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
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