Countries
India, Nepal
Nigeria
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
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National Language
Nepal
Nigeria
Second Language
Republic of Brazil
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Africa
Minority Language
People's Republic of China
Equatorial Guinea
Regulated By
Language Academy of Nepal
Society for Promoting Igbo Language and Culture
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 Igbo, there is complicated system of high and low tones indicating differences in meaning and grammatical relationships.
- Igbo has inexhaustible and rich linguistic features like idioms, proverbs, aphorisms, anecdotes etc.
Similar To
Hindi
Yoruba and Hausa Languages
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
4836
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
128
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3628
9
60
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Scripts
Devanagari
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
63
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks52 weeks
3
88
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Hello
नमस्ते (namaste)
kedụ
Thank You
धन्यवाद (dhanyabad)
dalụ
How Are You?
तिमीलाई कस्तो छ? (timi lai kasto cha?)
kedụ ka ịmere
Good Night
शुभ रात्री (subha ratri)
ka chi fo
Good Evening
शुभ सन्ध्या (subha sandhya)
mgbede ọma
Good Afternoon
Good afternoon
ehihie ọma
Good Morning
शुभ प्रभात (subha prabhat)
ụtụtụ ọma
Please
कृपया
Biko
Sorry
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
Ndo
Bye
नमस्ते (namaste)
Kachifo
I Love You
म तपाइलाइ माया गर्छु। (ma tapainlai maya garchu)
a hụrụ m gị n'anya
Excuse Me
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
ngọpụ
Dialect 1
Doteli
Enuani
Where They Speak
Nepal
Nigeria
How Many People Speak
790,000.0028,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Bajhangi
Ngwa
Where They Speak
India, Nepal
Nigeria
How Many People Speak
17,000,000.001,500,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Baitadeli
Not present
Where They Speak
Nepal
-
How Many People Speak
17,000,000.0024.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
1220
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
30.00 million25.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.25 %0.09 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
25.00 million25.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
5.00 million24.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
नेपाली (nēpālī)
igbo
Alternative Names
Eastern Pahadi, Gorkhali, Gurkhali, Khaskura, Nepalese, Parbate
Ibo
French Name
népalais
igbo
German Name
Nepali
Ibo-Sprache
Pronunciation
[neˈpali]
[iɡ͡boː]
Ethnicity
Gurkha, Khas people, Madhesi and Tharu
Igbo people
Origin
19 BC
30th Century BC
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Niger-Congo Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Kwa
Branch
Indic
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Khas language, Gurkhali, Parbatiya, Dzongkha Lhotshammikha
No early forms
Standard Forms
Nepali
Standard Igbo
Language Position
5957
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Nepali
Igbo Sign Language
Scope
Individual, Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 1
ne
ig
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
nep
ibo
ISO 639 2/B
nep
ibo
ISO 639 3
npi
ibo
ISO 639 6
nep
ibo
Glottocode
nepa1254
nucl1417
Linguasphere
12
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
-
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
Agglutinative