Countries
India, Nepal
Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Switzerland
Total No. Of Countries
27
0
46
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National Language
Nepal
Germany
Second Language
Republic of Brazil
North Dakota, United States of America
Speaking Continents
Asia
Europe
Minority Language
People's Republic of China
Czech Republic, Denmark, Former Soviet Union, France, Hungary, Italy, Namibia, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia
Regulated By
Language Academy of Nepal
Council for German Orthography
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.
- One of the large group of Indo-Germanic languages is German.
- The second most popular Germanic language spoken today behind English is German language.
Similar To
Hindi
Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and English Languages
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
Albanian Languages
Alphabets in
Alphabets
4826
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
1210
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
369
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
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks30 weeks
3
88
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Hello
नमस्ते (namaste)
hallo
Thank You
धन्यवाद (dhanyabad)
Danke
How Are You?
तिमीलाई कस्तो छ? (timi lai kasto cha?)
Wie geht es dir?
Good Night
शुभ रात्री (subha ratri)
gute Nacht
Good Evening
शुभ सन्ध्या (subha sandhya)
guten Abend
Good Afternoon
Good afternoon
guten Tag
Good Morning
शुभ प्रभात (subha prabhat)
guten Morgen
Please
कृपया
bitte
Sorry
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
Verzeihung
Bye
नमस्ते (namaste)
Tschüs
I Love You
म तपाइलाइ माया गर्छु। (ma tapainlai maya garchu)
Ich liebe dich
Excuse Me
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
Entschuldigung
Dialect 1
Doteli
Swiss German
Where They Speak
Nepal
Switzerland
How Many People Speak
790,000.004,500,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Bajhangi
Swabian German
Where They Speak
India, Nepal
Germany
How Many People Speak
17,000,000.00820,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Baitadeli
Texas German
Where They Speak
Nepal
Texas
How Many People Speak
17,000,000.006,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
1228
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
30.00 million229.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.25 %1.39 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
25.00 million101.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
5.00 million128.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
नेपाली (nēpālī)
Deutsch
Alternative Names
Eastern Pahadi, Gorkhali, Gurkhali, Khaskura, Nepalese, Parbate
Deutsch, Tedesco
French Name
népalais
allemand
German Name
Nepali
Deutsch
Pronunciation
[neˈpali]
[ˈdɔʏtʃ]
Ethnicity
Gurkha, Khas people, Madhesi and Tharu
Germans
Origin
19 BC
6th Century AD
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Germanic
Branch
Indic
Western
Language Forms
Early Forms
Khas language, Gurkhali, Parbatiya, Dzongkha Lhotshammikha
No early forms
Standard Forms
Nepali
German Standard German, Swiss Standard German and Austrian Standard German
Language Position
599
1
120
👆🏻
Signed Forms
Signed Nepali
Signed German
Scope
Individual, Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 1
ne
de
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
nep
deu
ISO 639 2/B
nep
ger
ISO 639 3
npi
deu
ISO 639 6
nep
deus
Glottocode
nepa1254
high1287, uppe1397
Linguasphere
12
52-ACB–dl & -dm
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Object-Verb, Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
Fusional, Synthetic