Countries
India, Nepal
Belgium, Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Canada, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Congo, Cote d'Ivoire, Djibouti, Equatorial Guinea, France, Gabon, Guernesey, Guinea, Haiti, Italy, Jersey, Luxembourg, Madagascar, Mali, Mauritius, Monaco, Niger, Rwanda, Senegal, Seychelles, Switzerland, Togo, Vanuatu
Total No. Of Countries
232
0
46
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National Language
Nepal
France
Second Language
Republic of Brazil
Africa, Canada
Speaking Continents
Asia
Africa, Australia, Europe, North America, Oceania, Pacific, South America
Minority Language
People's Republic of China
Brazil, Cambodia, United States of America, Vietnam
Regulated By
Language Academy of Nepal
Académie française (French Academy), Office québécois de la langue française
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.
- French is the only language, with English, that is taught in every country of the world.
- French is the top language in Culinary Scene.
Similar To
Hindi
Italian Language
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
Latin
Alphabets in
Alphabets
4826
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
126
0
32
👆🏻
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
66
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks24 weeks
3
88
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Hello
नमस्ते (namaste)
bonjour
Thank You
धन्यवाद (dhanyabad)
Merci
How Are You?
तिमीलाई कस्तो छ? (timi lai kasto cha?)
Comment allez-vous?
Good Night
शुभ रात्री (subha ratri)
bonne Nuit
Good Evening
शुभ सन्ध्या (subha sandhya)
bonsoir
Good Afternoon
Good afternoon
bon Après-Midi
Good Morning
शुभ प्रभात (subha prabhat)
Bonjour
Please
कृपया
S'il vous plaît
Sorry
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
désolé
Bye
नमस्ते (namaste)
au revoir
I Love You
म तपाइलाइ माया गर्छु। (ma tapainlai maya garchu)
Je t'aime
Excuse Me
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
Excuse Moi
Dialect 1
Doteli
Quebec French
Where They Speak
Nepal
New Brunswick, New England, Ontario, Quebec, Western Canada
How Many People Speak
790,000.006,200,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Bajhangi
African French
Where They Speak
India, Nepal
Africa
How Many People Speak
17,000,000.00274,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Baitadeli
Swiss French
Where They Speak
Nepal
Northeast France, Switzerland
How Many People Speak
17,000,000.001,800,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
1225
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
30.00 million163.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.25 %1.12 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
25.00 million76.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
5.00 million87.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
नेपाली (nēpālī)
français
Alternative Names
Eastern Pahadi, Gorkhali, Gurkhali, Khaskura, Nepalese, Parbate
Français
French Name
népalais
français
German Name
Nepali
Französisch
Pronunciation
[neˈpali]
[fʁɑ̃sɛ]
Ethnicity
Gurkha, Khas people, Madhesi and Tharu
French people
Origin
19 BC
9th Century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Romance
Branch
Indic
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Khas language, Gurkhali, Parbatiya, Dzongkha Lhotshammikha
Old French, Middle French and French
Standard Forms
Nepali
Standard French
Language Position
5913
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Nepali
le Français Signé (Signed French, France)
Scope
Individual, Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 1
ne
fr
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
nep
fra
ISO 639 2/B
nep
fre
ISO 639 3
npi
fra
ISO 639 6
nep
fras
Glottocode
nepa1254
stan1290
Linguasphere
12
51-AAA-i
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
Fusional, Synthetic