Countries
India, Nepal
China, Laos, Thailand, United States of America, Vietnam
Total No. Of Countries
25
0
46
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National Language
Nepal
China, Gambia, Laos, Thailand, United States of America, Vietnam
Second Language
Republic of Brazil
Not spoken in any of the countries, Republic of Brazil
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
People's Republic of China
Not spoken in any of the countries
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.
- Hmong language may not be so popular at first sight, but it has rich history and various dialects are spoken by millions of people.
- Hmong language came from western part of China.
Similar To
Hindi
Thai and Lao Languages
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
4874
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
1214
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3660
9
60
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Scripts
Devanagari
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
69
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
नमस्ते (namaste)
Nyob zoo (Nyaw zhong)
Thank You
धन्यवाद (dhanyabad)
Ua tsaug (Oua jow)
How Are You?
तिमीलाई कस्तो छ? (timi lai kasto cha?)
Koj nyob li cas (Gaw nyaw lee cha)
Good Night
शुभ रात्री (subha ratri)
zoo hmo
Good Evening
शुभ सन्ध्या (subha sandhya)
zoo yav tsaus ntuj
Good Afternoon
Good afternoon
zoo tav su
Good Morning
शुभ प्रभात (subha prabhat)
zoo thaum sawv ntxov
Please
कृपया
thov
Sorry
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
Thov txim (Thaw zhee)
Bye
नमस्ते (namaste)
Nyob zoo
I Love You
म तपाइलाइ माया गर्छु। (ma tapainlai maya garchu)
Kuv hlub koj
Excuse Me
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
zam txim rau kuv
Dialect 1
Doteli
Hmong Njua
Where They Speak
Nepal
Laos
How Many People Speak
790,000.00310,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Bajhangi
Hmong Daw
Where They Speak
India, Nepal
China
How Many People Speak
17,000,000.001,600,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Baitadeli
Hmong Do
Where They Speak
Nepal
Vietnam
How Many People Speak
17,000,000.0031,000,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
126
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
30.00 million4.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.25 %0.13 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
25.00 million3.70 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
5.00 million4.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
नेपाली (nēpālī)
Hmong
Alternative Names
Eastern Pahadi, Gorkhali, Gurkhali, Khaskura, Nepalese, Parbate
Mong
French Name
népalais
hmong
German Name
Nepali
Miao-Sprachen
Pronunciation
[neˈpali]
[môŋ]
Ethnicity
Gurkha, Khas people, Madhesi and Tharu
Hmong people
Origin
19 BC
19
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Hmong–Mien Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
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Branch
Indic
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Language Forms
Early Forms
Khas language, Gurkhali, Parbatiya, Dzongkha Lhotshammikha
No early forms
Standard Forms
Nepali
Hmong
Language Position
5924
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Nepali
Hmong Sign Language
Scope
Individual, Macrolanguage
Macrolanguage
ISO 639 1
ne
No data available
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
nep
hmn
ISO 639 2/B
nep
hmn
ISO 639 3
npi
hmv
ISO 639 6
nep
hmn
Glottocode
nepa1254
firs1234
Linguasphere
12
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
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Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
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