Countries
India, Nepal
European Union, Finland
Total No. Of Countries
22
0
46
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National Language
Nepal
Estonia, Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden
Second Language
Republic of Brazil
Estonia
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia, Europe
Minority Language
People's Republic of China
Republic of Karelia, Russian Federation, Sweden
Regulated By
Language Academy of Nepal
Institute for the Languages of Finland
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.
- Finnish language has adopted many words from Iranian, Turkic, Baltic, Germanic and Slavic languages.
- In Finnish language, there are no articles or grammatical gender.
Similar To
Hindi
Estonian and Livonian Languages
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
4829
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
128
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3613
9
60
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Scripts
Devanagari
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
64
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
नमस्ते (namaste)
Moi
Thank You
धन्यवाद (dhanyabad)
Kiitos
How Are You?
तिमीलाई कस्तो छ? (timi lai kasto cha?)
Mitä kuuluu?
Good Night
शुभ रात्री (subha ratri)
hyvää yötä
Good Evening
शुभ सन्ध्या (subha sandhya)
Hyvää iltaa
Good Afternoon
Good afternoon
Hyvää iltapäivää
Good Morning
शुभ प्रभात (subha prabhat)
Hyvää huomenta
Please
कृपया
haluta
Sorry
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
Anteeksi
Bye
नमस्ते (namaste)
Heippa
I Love You
म तपाइलाइ माया गर्छु। (ma tapainlai maya garchu)
Minä rakastan sinua
Excuse Me
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
Anteeksi
Dialect 1
Doteli
Colloquial Finnish
Where They Speak
Nepal
Finland
How Many People Speak
790,000.005,600,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Bajhangi
Rauma
Where They Speak
India, Nepal
Finland, Rauma
How Many People Speak
17,000,000.005,600,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Baitadeli
Meänkieli
Where They Speak
Nepal
Finland, Sweden
How Many People Speak
17,000,000.0060,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
1221
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
30.00 million5.40 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.25 %0.13 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
25.00 million5.40 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
5.00 million0.01 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
नेपाली (nēpālī)
suomi / suomen kieli
Alternative Names
Eastern Pahadi, Gorkhali, Gurkhali, Khaskura, Nepalese, Parbate
Suomi
French Name
népalais
finnois
German Name
Nepali
Finnisch
Pronunciation
[neˈpali]
[ˈsuomi]
Ethnicity
Gurkha, Khas people, Madhesi and Tharu
ethnic Finns
Origin
19 BC
1543
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Uralic Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Finno-Ugric
Branch
Indic
Finnic
Language Forms
Early Forms
Khas language, Gurkhali, Parbatiya, Dzongkha Lhotshammikha
Proto-Finnic language
Standard Forms
Nepali
standard Finnish
Language Position
5922
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Nepali
Signed Finnish
Scope
Individual, Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 1
ne
fi
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
nep
fin
ISO 639 2/B
nep
fin
ISO 639 3
npi
fin
ISO 639 6
nep
fin
Glottocode
nepa1254
finn1318
Linguasphere
12
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
Agglutinative, Synthetic