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Countries

Countries

India, Nepal
Barbados, Belize, Botswana, Cameroon, Canada, Dominica, Fiji, Ghana, India, Ireland, Jamaica, Kenya, Malta, Mauritius, Micronesia, Nigeria, Pakistan, Philippines, Rwanda, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Samoa, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Somaliland, South Africa, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania, Trinidad and Tobago, Uganda, United Kingdom, Zambia, Zimbabwe

Total No. Of Countries

233
0 46
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National Language

Nepal
Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bermuda, Cayman Islands, Gibraltar, Grenada, Guam, Guyana, Jersey, Montserrat, Nauru, Singapore, Trinidad and Tobago, United Kingdom, United States of America

Second Language

Republic of Brazil
India, Nigeria, Pakistan, Singapore

Speaking Continents

Asia
Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, North America, Oceania, South America

Minority Language

People's Republic of China
South Africa

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.
  • Most of the English words begin with the letter S than any other letter.
  • English is third most commonly spoken language in the world.

Similar To

Hindi
Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and German Languages

Derived From

Sanskrit Language
Latin

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

4826
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

125
0 32
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How Many Consonants

3621
9 60
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Scripts

Devanagari
Latin

Writing Direction

Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

67
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

44 weeks6 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

नमस्ते (namaste)
Hello

Thank You

धन्यवाद (dhanyabad)
Thank you

How Are You?

तिमीलाई कस्तो छ? (timi lai kasto cha?)
How are you?

Good Night

शुभ रात्री (subha ratri)
Good Night

Good Evening

शुभ सन्ध्या (subha sandhya)
Good Evening

Good Afternoon

Good afternoon
Good Afternoon

Good Morning

शुभ प्रभात (subha prabhat)
Good Morning

Please

कृपया
Please

Sorry

माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
Sorry

Bye

नमस्ते (namaste)
Bye

I Love You

म तपाइलाइ माया गर्छु। (ma tapainlai maya garchu)
I love you

Excuse Me

माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
Excuse Me

Dialects

Dialect 1

Doteli
American English

Where They Speak

Nepal
United States of America

How Many People Speak

790,000.00225,000,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Bajhangi
Hiberno-English

Where They Speak

India, Nepal
Republic of Ireland, United Kingdom

How Many People Speak

17,000,000.004,500,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Baitadeli
Welsh English

Where They Speak

Nepal
United Kingdom

How Many People Speak

17,000,000.002,500,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

12188
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

30.00 million1,200.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.25 %5.43 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

25.00 million400.00 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

5.00 million400.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

नेपाली (nēpālī)
English

Alternative Names

Eastern Pahadi, Gorkhali, Gurkhali, Khaskura, Nepalese, Parbate
English

French Name

népalais
anglais

German Name

Nepali
Englisch

Pronunciation

[neˈpali]
/ˈɪŋɡlɪʃ/

Ethnicity

Gurkha, Khas people, Madhesi and Tharu
English people

History

Origin

19 BC
5th Century AD

Language Family

Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family

Subgroup

Indo-Iranian
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Branch

Indic
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Language Forms

Early Forms

Khas language, Gurkhali, Parbatiya, Dzongkha Lhotshammikha
Old English, Middle English, Early Modern English and English

Standard Forms

Nepali
Standard English

Language Position

593
1 120
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Signed Forms

Signed Nepali
Signed English

Scope

Individual, Macrolanguage
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

ne
en

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

nep
eng

ISO 639 2/B

nep
eng

ISO 639 3

npi
eng

ISO 639 6

nep
engs

Glottocode

nepa1254
stan1293

Linguasphere

12
52-ABA

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object

Language Morphological Typology

Agglutinative
Analytic, Fusional, Isolating, Synthetic

Nepali and English Alphabets

Nepali and English Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Nepali and English. In Nepali Alphabets there are 48 letters while in English Alphabets there are 26 letters. To learn Nepali and English languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Nepali and English 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 English greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Nepali and English are Most Spoken Languages.

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

Nepali and English Speaking population

Nepali and English speaking population is one of the factors based on which Nepali and English languages can be compared. The total count of Nepali and English Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Nepali language is 0.25 % whereas the percentage of people speaking English language is 5.43 %. 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 English on Nepali vs English where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Nepali and English Language Codes

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