Countries
India, Nepal
Haiti
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
👆🏻
National Language
Nepal
Haiti
Second Language
Republic of Brazil
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Central America, North America
Minority Language
People's Republic of China
Cuba
Regulated By
Language Academy of Nepal
Akademi Kreyòl Ayisyen (Academy of Haitian Creole)
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.
- In the year 1940, the first technical orthography for Haitian Creole was developed.
- In Haiian Creole, the word 'creole' is of Latin origin via a Portuguese term that means, "person raised in one's house".
Similar To
Hindi
French Language
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
4829
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
127
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3620
9
60
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Scripts
Devanagari
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
63
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks24 weeks
3
88
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Hello
नमस्ते (namaste)
Bonjou
Thank You
धन्यवाद (dhanyabad)
Mèsi
How Are You?
तिमीलाई कस्तो छ? (timi lai kasto cha?)
Kijan ou yé?
Good Night
शुभ रात्री (subha ratri)
Bon nwit
Good Evening
शुभ सन्ध्या (subha sandhya)
Bonswa
Good Afternoon
Good afternoon
Bon apre-midi
Good Morning
शुभ प्रभात (subha prabhat)
Bon apre-midi
Please
कृपया
Souple
Sorry
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
Dezole
Bye
नमस्ते (namaste)
Babay
I Love You
म तपाइलाइ माया गर्छु। (ma tapainlai maya garchu)
Mwen renmen w
Excuse Me
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
Eskize m
Dialect 1
Doteli
Northern Haitian Creole
Where They Speak
Nepal
Cap-Haitien
How Many People Speak
790,000.0012,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Bajhangi
Central Haitian Creole
Where They Speak
India, Nepal
Port-au-Prince
How Many People Speak
17,000,000.0012,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Baitadeli
Southern Haitian Creole
Where They Speak
Nepal
Cayes
How Many People Speak
17,000,000.0012,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
123
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
30.00 million9.60 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.25 %0.15 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
25.00 million9.60 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
5.00 million12.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
नेपाली (nēpālī)
Kreyòl ayisyen
Alternative Names
Eastern Pahadi, Gorkhali, Gurkhali, Khaskura, Nepalese, Parbate
Creole, Haitian Creole, Western Caribbean Creole
French Name
népalais
haïtien; créole haïtien
German Name
Nepali
Haïtien (Haiti-Kreolisch)
Pronunciation
[neˈpali]
[kɣejɔl]
Ethnicity
Gurkha, Khas people, Madhesi and Tharu
Haitians
Origin
19 BC
17th Century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
-
Branch
Indic
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Khas language, Gurkhali, Parbatiya, Dzongkha Lhotshammikha
No early forms
Standard Forms
Nepali
Haitian Creole
Language Position
5999
1
120
👆🏻
Signed Forms
Signed Nepali
Langue des Signes Haïtienne (LSH)
Scope
Individual, Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 1
ne
ht
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
nep
hat
ISO 639 2/B
nep
hat
ISO 639 3
npi
hat
ISO 639 6
nep
hat
Glottocode
nepa1254
hait1244
Linguasphere
12
51-AAC-cb
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
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