Countries
India, Nepal
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan
Total No. Of Countries
25
0
46
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National Language
Nepal
China, Taiwan
Second Language
Republic of Brazil
Republic of Brazil
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
People's Republic of China
Indonesia, Malaysia
Regulated By
Language Academy of Nepal
Chinese Language Standardization Council, National Commission on Language and Script Work, Promote Mandarin Council
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.
- Chinese language is tonal, since meaning of a word changes according to its tone.
- In Chinese language, there is no grammatical distinction between singular or plural, no declination of verbs according to tense, mood and aspect.
Similar To
Hindi
Japanese and Korean Languages
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
4826
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
1224
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3623
9
60
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Scripts
Devanagari
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
66
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks88 weeks
3
88
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Hello
नमस्ते (namaste)
您好 (Nín hǎo)
Thank You
धन्यवाद (dhanyabad)
谢谢 (Xièxiè)
How Are You?
तिमीलाई कस्तो छ? (timi lai kasto cha?)
你好吗？ (Nǐ hǎo ma?)
Good Night
शुभ रात्री (subha ratri)
晚安 (Wǎn'ān)
Good Evening
शुभ सन्ध्या (subha sandhya)
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)
Good Afternoon
Good afternoon
下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)
Good Morning
शुभ प्रभात (subha prabhat)
早安 (Zǎo ān)
Please
कृपया
请 (Qǐng)
Sorry
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
遗憾 (Yíhàn)
Bye
नमस्ते (namaste)
再见 (Zàijiàn)
I Love You
म तपाइलाइ माया गर्छु। (ma tapainlai maya garchu)
我爱你 (Wǒ ài nǐ)
Excuse Me
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
劳驾 (Láojià)
Dialect 1
Doteli
Mandarin
Where They Speak
Nepal
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan
How Many People Speak
790,000.00960,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Bajhangi
Wu
Where They Speak
India, Nepal
China, United States of America
How Many People Speak
17,000,000.0080,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Baitadeli
Yue
Where They Speak
Nepal
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
How Many People Speak
17,000,000.0060,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
1210
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
30.00 million1,051.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.25 %16.00 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
25.00 million873.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
5.00 million178.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
नेपाली (nēpālī)
中文 (zhōngwén)
Alternative Names
Eastern Pahadi, Gorkhali, Gurkhali, Khaskura, Nepalese, Parbate
Zhongwen, Hanyu
French Name
népalais
chinois
German Name
Nepali
Chinesisch
Pronunciation
[neˈpali]
[ʈʂʰíŋ] [huà]
Ethnicity
Gurkha, Khas people, Madhesi and Tharu
Han
Origin
19 BC
1250 BC
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
-
Branch
Indic
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Khas language, Gurkhali, Parbatiya, Dzongkha Lhotshammikha
No early forms
Standard Forms
Nepali
Standard Chinese
Language Position
591
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Nepali
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))
Scope
Individual, Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 1
ne
zh
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
nep
zho
ISO 639 2/B
nep
chi
ISO 639 3
npi
zho
ISO 639 6
nep
zho
Glottocode
nepa1254
sini1245
Linguasphere
12
79-AAA
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
Analytic, Isolating