Countries
India, Nepal
Cyprus, European Union, Greece
Total No. Of Countries
23
0
46
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National Language
Nepal
Albania, Cyprus, Egypt, France, Greece, Italy, Romania, Turkey, Ukraine
Second Language
Republic of Brazil
Roman Empire
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia, Europe
Minority Language
People's Republic of China
Albania, Armenia, Australia, Hungary, Italy, Romania, Turkey, Ukraine
Regulated By
Language Academy of Nepal
Center for the Greek language (Κέντρον Ελληνικής Γλώσσας)
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.
- Greek is the longest documented language of all the Indo-European Langauges.
- The official language of education in the Roman Empire was Greek.
Similar To
Hindi
Armenian
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
Latin
Alphabets in
Alphabets
4824
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
127
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3617
9
60
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Scripts
Devanagari
Arabic, 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 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
नमस्ते (namaste)
γεια σας (geia sas)
Thank You
धन्यवाद (dhanyabad)
ευχαριστώ (ef̱charistó̱)
How Are You?
तिमीलाई कस्तो छ? (timi lai kasto cha?)
πώς είσαι (pó̱s eísai)
Good Night
शुभ रात्री (subha ratri)
Καληνυχτα (Kali̱nychta)
Good Evening
शुभ सन्ध्या (subha sandhya)
καλησπέρα (kali̱spéra)
Good Afternoon
Good afternoon
Καλὸ ἀπόγευμα (Kaló apóyevma)
Good Morning
शुभ प्रभात (subha prabhat)
καλημέρα (kali̱méra)
Please
कृपया
παρακαλώ (parakaló̱)
Sorry
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
συγνώμη (sygnó̱mi̱)
Bye
नमस्ते (namaste)
αντίο (antío)
I Love You
म तपाइलाइ माया गर्छु। (ma tapainlai maya garchu)
Σε αγαπώ (Se agapó̱)
Excuse Me
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
Με συγχωρείτε! (Me synhoríte)
Dialect 1
Doteli
Cappadocian Greek
Where They Speak
Nepal
Greece
How Many People Speak
790,000.002,800.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Bajhangi
Griko
Where They Speak
India, Nepal
Italy
How Many People Speak
17,000,000.0050,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Baitadeli
Mariupol
Where They Speak
Nepal
Ukraine
How Many People Speak
17,000,000.0013,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
1225
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
30.00 million13.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.25 %0.18 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
25.00 million13.00 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
5.00 million13.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
नेपाली (nēpālī)
ελληνικά
Alternative Names
Eastern Pahadi, Gorkhali, Gurkhali, Khaskura, Nepalese, Parbate
Ellinika, Graecae, Grec, Greco, Neo-Hellenic, Romaic
French Name
népalais
grec moderne (après 1453)
German Name
Nepali
Neugriechisch
Pronunciation
[neˈpali]
[eliniˈka]
Ethnicity
Gurkha, Khas people, Madhesi and Tharu
Greeks or Hellenes
Origin
19 BC
1500 BC
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Hellenic
Branch
Indic
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Khas language, Gurkhali, Parbatiya, Dzongkha Lhotshammikha
Proto-Greek, Mycenaean Greek, Ancient Greek, Koine Greek and Medieval Greek
Standard Forms
Nepali
Modern Greek
Language Position
5974
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Nepali
Greek Sign Language
Scope
Individual, Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 1
ne
el
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
nep
ell
ISO 639 2/B
nep
gre
ISO 639 3
npi
ell
ISO 639 6
nep
ells
Glottocode
nepa1254
gree1276
Linguasphere
12
56-AAA-a
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
Fusional, Synthetic