Countries
India, Nepal
Philippines
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
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National Language
Nepal
Philippines
Second Language
Republic of Brazil
Philippines
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
People's Republic of China
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Language Academy of Nepal
Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino
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.
- "Filipino" was officially declared as national language by the constitution in 1987.
- "Filipino" is the official name of Tagalog, or synonym of it.
Similar To
Hindi
Tagalog Language
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
Spanish Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
4828
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
125
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3623
9
60
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Scripts
Devanagari
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
63
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
नमस्ते (namaste)
Kumusta
Thank You
धन्यवाद (dhanyabad)
Salamat
How Are You?
तिमीलाई कस्तो छ? (timi lai kasto cha?)
Kumusta
Good Night
शुभ रात्री (subha ratri)
magandang gabi
Good Evening
शुभ सन्ध्या (subha sandhya)
Magandang gabi
Good Afternoon
Good afternoon
Magandang hapon
Good Morning
शुभ प्रभात (subha prabhat)
Magandang umaga
Please
कृपया
Mangyaring
Sorry
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
pinagsisisihan
Bye
नमस्ते (namaste)
Paalam
I Love You
म तपाइलाइ माया गर्छु। (ma tapainlai maya garchu)
Mahal kita
Excuse Me
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
patawarin ninyo ako
Dialect 1
Doteli
Bikol
Where They Speak
Nepal
Philippines
How Many People Speak
790,000.00100,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Bajhangi
Hiligaynon
Where They Speak
India, Nepal
Philippines
How Many People Speak
17,000,000.008,200,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Baitadeli
Waray
Where They Speak
Nepal
Philippines
How Many People Speak
17,000,000.002,600,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
128
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
30.00 million90.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.25 %1.74 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
25.00 million45.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
5.00 million45.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
नेपाली (nēpālī)
filipino
Alternative Names
Eastern Pahadi, Gorkhali, Gurkhali, Khaskura, Nepalese, Parbate
Pilipino
French Name
népalais
filipino; pilipino
German Name
Nepali
Pilipino
Pronunciation
[neˈpali]
[ˌfɪl.ɪˈpiː.no]
Ethnicity
Gurkha, Khas people, Madhesi and Tharu
Filipino people
Origin
19 BC
16th Century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Austronesian Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
-
Branch
Indic
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Khas language, Gurkhali, Parbatiya, Dzongkha Lhotshammikha
No early forms
Standard Forms
Nepali
Filipino
Language Position
5934
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Nepali
Filipino Sign Language
Scope
Individual, Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 1
ne
No Data Available
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
nep
fil
ISO 639 2/B
nep
fil
ISO 639 3
npi
fil
ISO 639 6
nep
fil
Glottocode
nepa1254
fili1244
Linguasphere
12
No Data Available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
-
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
-