Countries
India, Nepal
Czech Republic, European Union
Total No. Of Countries
22
0
46
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National Language
Nepal
Czech Republic
Second Language
Republic of Brazil
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Europe
Minority Language
People's Republic of China
Austria, Croatia, Germany, Slovakia
Regulated By
Language Academy of Nepal
Institute of the Czech Language
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 Czech language was known as Bohemian as early at 19th century.
- In czech language, there are many words that do not contain vowels.
Similar To
Hindi
Polish, Slovak and Sorbian
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
4842
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
1232
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3632
9
60
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Scripts
Devanagari
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
65
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
नमस्ते (namaste)
ahoj
Thank You
धन्यवाद (dhanyabad)
děkuji
How Are You?
तिमीलाई कस्तो छ? (timi lai kasto cha?)
Jak se máš?
Good Night
शुभ रात्री (subha ratri)
dobrou noc
Good Evening
शुभ सन्ध्या (subha sandhya)
dobrý večer
Good Afternoon
Good afternoon
dobré odpoledne
Good Morning
शुभ प्रभात (subha prabhat)
dobré ráno
Please
कृपया
prosím
Sorry
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
litovat
Bye
नमस्ते (namaste)
sbohem
I Love You
म तपाइलाइ माया गर्छु। (ma tapainlai maya garchu)
Miluji tě
Excuse Me
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
promiňte
Dialect 1
Doteli
Chod
Where They Speak
Nepal
Chodsko, Bohemia
How Many People Speak
790,000.0011,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Bajhangi
Lach
Where They Speak
India, Nepal
Czech Silesia, Hlucin, Northeast Moravia
How Many People Speak
17,000,000.0010,500,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Baitadeli
Moravian
Where They Speak
Nepal
Czech Republic, Czech Silesia, Moravia, Slovakia
How Many People Speak
17,000,000.00108,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
1213
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
30.00 million11.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.25 %0.15 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
25.00 million11.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
5.00 million10.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
नेपाली (nēpālī)
čeština / český jazyk
Alternative Names
Eastern Pahadi, Gorkhali, Gurkhali, Khaskura, Nepalese, Parbate
Bohemian, Cestina
French Name
népalais
tchèque
German Name
Nepali
Tschechisch
Pronunciation
[neˈpali]
[ˈtʃɛʃkɪ]
Ethnicity
Gurkha, Khas people, Madhesi and Tharu
Czechs
Origin
19 BC
9th Century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Slavic
Branch
Indic
Western
Language Forms
Early Forms
Khas language, Gurkhali, Parbatiya, Dzongkha Lhotshammikha
Proto-Czech, Old Czech
Standard Forms
Nepali
Standard Czech
Language Position
5973
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Nepali
Czech Sign Language
Scope
Individual, Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 1
ne
cs
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
nep
ces
ISO 639 2/B
nep
cze
ISO 639 3
npi
ces
ISO 639 6
nep
ces
Glottocode
nepa1254
czec1258
Linguasphere
12
53-AAA-da
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
-
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
Fusional, Synthetic