Countries
India, Nepal
India
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
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National Language
Nepal
India
Second Language
Republic of Brazil
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
People's Republic of China
Great Britain, Kenya, Malawi, Oman, Pakistan, Tanzania, Uganda, United States of America, Zambia
Regulated By
Language Academy of Nepal
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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.
- Gujarati was the first language of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi("Father of the Nation of India") and Vallabhbhai Patel ("Iron Man of India").
- Most of the words in Gujarati language are adopted from Sanskrit.
Similar To
Hindi
Bengali Language
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
4847
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
128
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3631
9
60
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Scripts
Devanagari
Devanagari
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 weeks18 weeks
3
88
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Hello
नमस्ते (namaste)
નમસ્તે (namaste)
Thank You
धन्यवाद (dhanyabad)
ધન્યવાદ (dhanvaad)
How Are You?
तिमीलाई कस्तो छ? (timi lai kasto cha?)
કેમ છો (kem cho?)
Good Night
शुभ रात्री (subha ratri)
શુભ રાત્રે (shub rātrē)
Good Evening
शुभ सन्ध्या (subha sandhya)
સાંજે સારી (sān̄jē sārī)
Good Afternoon
Good afternoon
સારા બપોરે (sārā bapōrē)
Good Morning
शुभ प्रभात (subha prabhat)
સુ પ્રભાત (su prabhat)
Please
कृपया
કૃપા કરીને(Kr̥pā karīnē)
Sorry
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
મન્ને મફ કરો (manne maaf karo)
Bye
नमस्ते (namaste)
બાય (Bāya)
I Love You
म तपाइलाइ माया गर्छु। (ma tapainlai maya garchu)
હું તને પ્રેમ કરુ છું (hūṃ tane prem karū chūṃ)
Excuse Me
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
માફ કરશો (Māpha karaśō)
Dialect 1
Doteli
Kathiyawadi
Where They Speak
Nepal
India, Mauritius, Oman, Pakistan, Singapore, South Africa, Tanzania, United Kingdom, United States of America
How Many People Speak
790,000.0046,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Bajhangi
Kharwa
Where They Speak
India, Nepal
India, Mauritius, Pakistan, Singapore, United Kingdom, United States of America
How Many People Speak
17,000,000.0056,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Baitadeli
Surati
Where They Speak
Nepal
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How Many People Speak
17,000,000.0056,000,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
128
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
30.00 million60.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.25 %0.74 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
25.00 million50.00 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
5.00 million55.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
नेपाली (nēpālī)
ગુજરાતી (gujarātī)
Alternative Names
Eastern Pahadi, Gorkhali, Gurkhali, Khaskura, Nepalese, Parbate
Gujerathi, Gujerati, Gujrathi
French Name
népalais
goudjrati
German Name
Nepali
Gujarati-Sprache
Pronunciation
[neˈpali]
[ɡudʒəˈɾɑːt̪i]
Ethnicity
Gurkha, Khas people, Madhesi and Tharu
Gujaratis
Origin
19 BC
15
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Indo-Iranian
Branch
Indic
Indic
Language Forms
Early Forms
Khas language, Gurkhali, Parbatiya, Dzongkha Lhotshammikha
Old Gujarati
Standard Forms
Nepali
Modern Gujarati
Language Position
5923
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Nepali
Signed Gujarati
Scope
Individual, Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 1
ne
gu
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
nep
guj
ISO 639 2/B
nep
guj
ISO 639 3
npi
guj
ISO 639 6
nep
guj
Glottocode
nepa1254
guja1252
Linguasphere
12
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Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
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