Countries
India, Nepal
East Asia, European Union, South America
Total No. Of Countries
23
0
46
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National Language
Nepal
East Asia, European Union
Second Language
Republic of Brazil
Central Europe, East Asia, Eastern Europe, South America
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia, Europe, South America
Minority Language
People's Republic of China
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Language Academy of Nepal
Akademio de Esperanto
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 most widely spoken constructed language in the world is Esperanto.
- Esperanto is an artificial international language.
Similar To
Hindi
Latin and Italian Languages
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
4832
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
125
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
3627
9
60
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Scripts
Devanagari
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
62
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks6 weeks
3
88
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Hello
नमस्ते (namaste)
Halo
Thank You
धन्यवाद (dhanyabad)
Dankon
How Are You?
तिमीलाई कस्तो छ? (timi lai kasto cha?)
Kiel vi sanas?
Good Night
शुभ रात्री (subha ratri)
Bonan nokton
Good Evening
शुभ सन्ध्या (subha sandhya)
Bonan vesperon
Good Afternoon
Good afternoon
Bonan posttagmezon
Good Morning
शुभ प्रभात (subha prabhat)
Bonan matenon
Please
कृपया
Mi petas
Sorry
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
Mi bedaŭras!
Bye
नमस्ते (namaste)
Ĝis poste
I Love You
म तपाइलाइ माया गर्छु। (ma tapainlai maya garchu)
Mi amas vin
Excuse Me
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
Pardonu!
Dialect 1
Doteli
Not present
Where They Speak
Nepal
Not present
How Many People Speak
790,000.002,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Bajhangi
Not present
Where They Speak
India, Nepal
Not present
How Many People Speak
17,000,000.001,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Baitadeli
Not present
Where They Speak
Nepal
Not present
How Many People Speak
17,000,000.002,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
120
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
30.00 million2.20 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.25 %0.03 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
25.00 million0.20 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
5.00 million2.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
नेपाली (nēpālī)
Esperanto
Alternative Names
Eastern Pahadi, Gorkhali, Gurkhali, Khaskura, Nepalese, Parbate
Eo, La Lingvo Internacia
French Name
népalais
espéranto
German Name
Nepali
Esperanto
Pronunciation
[neˈpali]
[espeˈranto]
Ethnicity
Gurkha, Khas people, Madhesi and Tharu
Esperanto speakers
Origin
19 BC
1887
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
-
Branch
Indic
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Khas language, Gurkhali, Parbatiya, Dzongkha Lhotshammikha
Proto-Esperanto
Standard Forms
Nepali
Esperanto
Language Position
5933
1
120
👆🏻
Signed Forms
Signed Nepali
Signuno
Scope
Individual, Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 1
ne
eo
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
nep
epo
ISO 639 2/B
nep
epo
ISO 639 3
npi
epo
ISO 639 6
nep
epo
Glottocode
nepa1254
espe1235
Linguasphere
12
51-AAB-da
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Constructed
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
-
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
Agglutinative