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Nepali
Nepali

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Countries

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

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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Greetings

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

Dialects

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
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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 million12.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.25 %0.17 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

25.00 million12.00 million
0 873
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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

History

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

Code

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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Nepali and Chewa Alphabets

Nepali and Chewa Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Nepali and Chewa. In Nepali Alphabets there are 48 letters while in Chewa Alphabets there are 31 letters. To learn Nepali and Chewa languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Nepali and Chewa 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 Chewa greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Nepali and Chewa are Most Spoken Languages.

All Nepali and Chewa 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 Chewa dialects. Various dialects of Nepali and Chewa language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Nepali are spoken in different Nepali Speaking Countries whereas Chewa Dialects are spoken in different Chewa speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Nepali vs Chewa Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Nepali dialects include: Doteli, Bajhangi. Chewa dialects include: Kasungu , Kikamtunda. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

Nepali and Chewa Speaking population

Nepali and Chewa speaking population is one of the factors based on which Nepali and Chewa languages can be compared. The total count of Nepali and Chewa Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Nepali language is 0.25 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Chewa language is 0.17 %. 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 Chewa on Nepali vs Chewa where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Nepali and Chewa Language Codes

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