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Countries

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

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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Greetings

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)

Dialects

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
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Total No. Of Dialects

1225
0 188
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How Many People Speak

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

History

Origin

19 BC
1500 BC

Language Family

Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family

Subgroup

Indo-Iranian
Hellenic

Branch

Indic
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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

Code

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

Nepali and Greek Alphabets

Nepali and Greek Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Nepali and Greek. In Nepali Alphabets there are 48 letters while in Greek Alphabets there are 24 letters. To learn Nepali and Greek languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Nepali and Greek languages. The Nepali phonology consist Nepali vowels and Nepali consonants. After alphabets, words are to be learned and after words, phrases in that language. Take a look at Nepali greetings vs Greek greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Nepali and Greek are Most Spoken Languages.

All Nepali and Greek Dialects

Most languages have dialects where each dialect differ from other dialect with respect to grammar and vocabulary. Here you will get to know all Nepali and Greek dialects. Various dialects of Nepali and Greek language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Nepali are spoken in different Nepali Speaking Countries whereas Greek Dialects are spoken in different Greek speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Nepali vs Greek Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Nepali dialects include: Doteli, Bajhangi. Greek dialects include: Cappadocian Greek , Griko. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

Nepali and Greek Speaking population

Nepali and Greek speaking population is one of the factors based on which Nepali and Greek languages can be compared. The total count of Nepali and Greek Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Nepali language is 0.25 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Greek language is 0.18 %. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak Nepali and Greek on Nepali vs Greek where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Nepali and Greek Language Codes

Nepali and Greek language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Nepali and Greek Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.