Countries
India, Nepal
Malawi, Zimbabwe
Total No. Of Countries
22
0
46
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National Language
Nepal
Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia, Zimbabwe
Second Language
Republic of Brazil
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Africa
Minority Language
People's Republic of China
Zambia
Regulated By
Language Academy of Nepal
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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.
- Chewa is one of the 55 languages featured on the Voyager spacecraft.
- Most widely known language of Malawi is Chewa.
Similar To
Hindi
Zulu language
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
4831
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
125
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3618
9
60
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Scripts
Devanagari
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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Hard to Learn
Language Levels
65
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks32 weeks
3
88
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Hello
नमस्ते (namaste)
Moni
Thank You
धन्यवाद (dhanyabad)
Zikomo
How Are You?
तिमीलाई कस्तो छ? (timi lai kasto cha?)
Muli bwanji?
Good Night
शुभ रात्री (subha ratri)
Usiku wabwino
Good Evening
शुभ सन्ध्या (subha sandhya)
Madzulo abwino
Good Afternoon
Good afternoon
Masana abwino
Good Morning
शुभ प्रभात (subha prabhat)
M'mawa wabwino
Please
कृपया
Chonde
Sorry
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
pepani
Bye
नमस्ते (namaste)
anatsanzikana
I Love You
म तपाइलाइ माया गर्छु। (ma tapainlai maya garchu)
Ndimakukondani
Excuse Me
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
Pepani
Dialect 1
Doteli
Kasungu
Where They Speak
Nepal
Malawi, Zambia
How Many People Speak
790,000.0012,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Bajhangi
Kikamtunda
Where They Speak
India, Nepal
Malawi, Zambia
How Many People Speak
17,000,000.0010,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Baitadeli
Kimaravi
Where They Speak
Nepal
Malawi, Zambia
How Many People Speak
17,000,000.001,200,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
125
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
30.00 million12.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.25 %0.17 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
25.00 million12.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
5.00 million1.50 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
नेपाली (nēpālī)
Nyanja
Alternative Names
Eastern Pahadi, Gorkhali, Gurkhali, Khaskura, Nepalese, Parbate
Chichewa, Chinyanja, Nyanja, Nyanja-Chewa
French Name
népalais
chichewa; chewa; nyanja
German Name
Nepali
Nyanja-Sprache
Pronunciation
[neˈpali]
[ˈtʃewa]
Ethnicity
Gurkha, Khas people, Madhesi and Tharu
Chewa people
Origin
19 BC
15th Century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Niger-Congo Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Benue-Congo
Branch
Indic
Bantu
Language Forms
Early Forms
Khas language, Gurkhali, Parbatiya, Dzongkha Lhotshammikha
No early forms
Standard Forms
Nepali
Chewa
Language Position
5927
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Nepali
Chewa Sign Language
Scope
Individual, Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 1
ne
ny
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
nep
nya
ISO 639 2/B
nep
nya
ISO 639 3
npi
nya
ISO 639 6
nep
nya
Glottocode
nepa1254
nyan1308
Linguasphere
12
99-AUS-xaa – xag
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
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Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
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