Countries
India, Nepal
Georgia
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
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National Language
Nepal
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Israel, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine, United States of America
Second Language
Republic of Brazil
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia, Europe
Minority Language
People's Republic of China
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Language Academy of Nepal
Cabinet of Georgia
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.
- Georgian language has borrowed many words from Arabic, Persian and Turkish languages.
- Georgian language does not distinguish between 'he/him', 'she/her' and 'it', only masculine form is used.
Similar To
Hindi
Armenian and Azerbaijani Languages
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
Anatolian Languages
Alphabets in
Alphabets
4833
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
125
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3628
9
60
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Scripts
Devanagari
Arabic, Georgian script
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 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
नमस्ते (namaste)
გამარჯობა (gamarjoba)
Thank You
धन्यवाद (dhanyabad)
გმადლობთ (gmadlobt)
How Are You?
तिमीलाई कस्तो छ? (timi lai kasto cha?)
როგორა ხარ? (rogora khar?)
Good Night
शुभ रात्री (subha ratri)
ძილი ნებისა (dzili nebisa)
Good Evening
शुभ सन्ध्या (subha sandhya)
საღამო მშვიდობისა (saghamo mshvidobisa)
Good Afternoon
Good afternoon
დილა მშვიდობისა (dila mshvidobisa)
Good Morning
शुभ प्रभात (subha prabhat)
დილა მშვიდობისა (dila mshvidobisa)
Please
कृपया
გთხოვთ (gt’khovt’)
Sorry
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
ბოდიში (bodishi)
Bye
नमस्ते (namaste)
ნახვამდის (nakhvamdis)
I Love You
म तपाइलाइ माया गर्छु। (ma tapainlai maya garchu)
მე შენ მიყვარხარ (me shen miq’varkhar)
Excuse Me
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
უკაცრავად (uk’atsravad)
Dialect 1
Doteli
Judaeo-Georgian
Where They Speak
Nepal
Belgium, Georgia, Israel, Russia, United States of America
How Many People Speak
790,000.0080,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Bajhangi
Kartlian
Where They Speak
India, Nepal
Kartli
How Many People Speak
17,000,000.004,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Baitadeli
Pshavian
Where They Speak
Nepal
Pshavi
How Many People Speak
17,000,000.004,000,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
1220
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
30.00 million4.30 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.25 %0.64 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
25.00 million4.30 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
5.00 million4.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
नेपाली (nēpālī)
ქართული ენა
Alternative Names
Eastern Pahadi, Gorkhali, Gurkhali, Khaskura, Nepalese, Parbate
Common Kartvelian, Gruzinski, Kartuli
French Name
népalais
géorgien
German Name
Nepali
Georgisch
Pronunciation
[neˈpali]
[kʰɑrtʰuli ɛnɑ]
Ethnicity
Gurkha, Khas people, Madhesi and Tharu
Georgians
Origin
19 BC
5th Century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Kartvelian Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Southern
Branch
Indic
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Khas language, Gurkhali, Parbatiya, Dzongkha Lhotshammikha
Old Georgian, Classical Old Georgian, Middle Georgian
Standard Forms
Nepali
Modern Georgian
Language Position
59120
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Nepali
Georgian Sign Language
Scope
Individual, Macrolanguage
-
ISO 639 1
ne
ka
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
nep
kat
ISO 639 2/B
nep
geo
ISO 639 3
npi
kat
ISO 639 6
nep
kat
Glottocode
nepa1254
nucl1302
Linguasphere
12
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
-
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
-
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
Agglutinative, Synthetic