Countries
India, Nepal
Galicia
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
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National Language
Nepal
Galicia
Second Language
Republic of Brazil
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Europe
Minority Language
People's Republic of China
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Language Academy of Nepal
Royal Galician Academy (Real Academia Galega)
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.
- In Galician language, there are no compound tenses.
- The earliest document in Galician language was written in 1228 which was legal charter for a municipality of Galicia.
Similar To
Hindi
Portuguese Language
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
Latin
Alphabets in
Alphabets
4823
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
127
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3619
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
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks28 weeks
3
88
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Hello
नमस्ते (namaste)
Ola
Thank You
धन्यवाद (dhanyabad)
Grazas
How Are You?
तिमीलाई कस्तो छ? (timi lai kasto cha?)
Que tal estás?
Good Night
शुभ रात्री (subha ratri)
Boas noites
Good Evening
शुभ सन्ध्या (subha sandhya)
Boa tarde
Good Afternoon
Good afternoon
Boa tarde
Good Morning
शुभ प्रभात (subha prabhat)
Bos días
Please
कृपया
Por favor
Sorry
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
Síntoo!
Bye
नमस्ते (namaste)
Adeus
I Love You
म तपाइलाइ माया गर्छु। (ma tapainlai maya garchu)
Ámote
Excuse Me
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
Perdoe!
Dialect 1
Doteli
Eastern Galician
Where They Speak
Nepal
East Galicia
How Many People Speak
790,000.002,700,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Bajhangi
Central Galician
Where They Speak
India, Nepal
Central Galicia
How Many People Speak
17,000,000.002,500,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Baitadeli
Western Galician
Where They Speak
Nepal
West Galicia
How Many People Speak
17,000,000.003,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
123
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
30.00 million2.40 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.25 %0.05 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
25.00 million2.40 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
5.00 million3.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
नेपाली (nēpālī)
Galego
Alternative Names
Eastern Pahadi, Gorkhali, Gurkhali, Khaskura, Nepalese, Parbate
Galego, Gallego
French Name
népalais
galicien
German Name
Nepali
Galicisch
Pronunciation
[neˈpali]
[ɡaˈleɣo]
Ethnicity
Gurkha, Khas people, Madhesi and Tharu
Galician people
Origin
19 BC
c. 1175
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
-
Branch
Indic
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Khas language, Gurkhali, Parbatiya, Dzongkha Lhotshammikha
Medieval Galician
Standard Forms
Nepali
Galician
Language Position
5946
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Nepali
Galician Sign Language
Scope
Individual, Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 1
ne
gl
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
nep
glg
ISO 639 2/B
nep
glg
ISO 639 3
npi
glg
ISO 639 6
nep
glg
Glottocode
nepa1254
gali1258
Linguasphere
12
51-AAA-ab
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
-
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
-