Countries
India, Nepal
Denmark, European Union, Faroe Islands, Greenland, Nordic Council
Total No. Of Countries
25
0
46
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National Language
Nepal
Denmark, Faroe Islands, Germany, Greenland
Second Language
Republic of Brazil
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Europe, North America, South America
Minority Language
People's Republic of China
Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Germany, Greenland, Norway, Sweden, United States of America
Regulated By
Language Academy of Nepal
Dansk Sprognævn (Danish Language Committee)
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.
- Danish, Norwegian and Swedish are mutually intelligible, that means if u learn Danish is almost like learning three languages in one.
- There are 9 vowels in Danish language, which can be pronounced in 16 different ways.
Similar To
Hindi
Norwegian and Swedish
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
Old Norse Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
4829
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
1220
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3620
9
60
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Scripts
Devanagari
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
63
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks24 weeks
3
88
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Hello
नमस्ते (namaste)
Hallo
Thank You
धन्यवाद (dhanyabad)
Mange tak
How Are You?
तिमीलाई कस्तो छ? (timi lai kasto cha?)
Hvordan har du det?
Good Night
शुभ रात्री (subha ratri)
God nat
Good Evening
शुभ सन्ध्या (subha sandhya)
God aften
Good Afternoon
Good afternoon
God eftermiddag
Good Morning
शुभ प्रभात (subha prabhat)
God morgen
Please
कृपया
Please
Sorry
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
Undskyld!
Bye
नमस्ते (namaste)
Farvel
I Love You
म तपाइलाइ माया गर्छु। (ma tapainlai maya garchu)
Jeg elsker dig
Excuse Me
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
Undskyld mig
Dialect 1
Doteli
Scanian
Where They Speak
Nepal
Sweden
How Many People Speak
790,000.0080,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Bajhangi
Jutlandic
Where They Speak
India, Nepal
Denmark
How Many People Speak
17,000,000.006,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Baitadeli
Bornholmsk
Where They Speak
Nepal
Island of Bornholm
How Many People Speak
17,000,000.006,000,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
124
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
30.00 million5.50 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.25 %0.07 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
25.00 million5.50 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
5.00 million6.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
नेपाली (nēpālī)
dansk
Alternative Names
Eastern Pahadi, Gorkhali, Gurkhali, Khaskura, Nepalese, Parbate
Dansk, Rigsdansk
French Name
népalais
danois
German Name
Nepali
Dänisch
Pronunciation
[neˈpali]
[d̥ænˀsɡ̊]
Ethnicity
Gurkha, Khas people, Madhesi and Tharu
Danish people or Danes
Origin
19 BC
c. 1100 AD
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
-
Branch
Indic
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Khas language, Gurkhali, Parbatiya, Dzongkha Lhotshammikha
Old Danish, Early Modern Danish
Standard Forms
Nepali
Rigsdansk
Language Position
5918
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Nepali
Signed Danish
Scope
Individual, Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 1
ne
da
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
nep
dan
ISO 639 2/B
nep
dan
ISO 639 3
npi
dan
ISO 639 6
nep
dan
Glottocode
nepa1254
dani1284
Linguasphere
12
5 2-AAA-bf & -ca to -cj
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
Fusional