Countries
India, Nepal
Indonesia
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
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National Language
Nepal
Indonesia
Second Language
Republic of Brazil
East Timor, Indonesia
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
People's Republic of China
Denmark, East Timor, Netherlands
Regulated By
Language Academy of Nepal
Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa
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.
- The modern Indonesian language uses many loan words from Persian, Chinese and Arabic.
- In Indonesian language, spelling is phonetically precise, so that words are spelled as they sound.
Similar To
Hindi
Malay language
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
Malay and Dutch Languages
Alphabets in
Alphabets
4826
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
126
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3619
9
60
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Scripts
Devanagari
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
67
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks36 weeks
3
88
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Hello
नमस्ते (namaste)
Halo
Thank You
धन्यवाद (dhanyabad)
Terima kasih
How Are You?
तिमीलाई कस्तो छ? (timi lai kasto cha?)
Apa kabar?
Good Night
शुभ रात्री (subha ratri)
Selamat Malam
Good Evening
शुभ सन्ध्या (subha sandhya)
Malam yang baik
Good Afternoon
Good afternoon
Selamat Sore
Good Morning
शुभ प्रभात (subha prabhat)
Selamat Pagi
Please
कृपया
mohon Untuk
Sorry
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
maaf
Bye
नमस्ते (namaste)
Selamat tinggal
I Love You
म तपाइलाइ माया गर्छु। (ma tapainlai maya garchu)
Aku cinta kamu
Excuse Me
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
Permisi
Dialect 1
Doteli
Sundanese
Where They Speak
Nepal
Indonesia
How Many People Speak
790,000.0038,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Bajhangi
Balinese
Where They Speak
India, Nepal
Bali, Indonesia, Lombok and Java, Nusa Penida
How Many People Speak
17,000,000.003,300,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Baitadeli
Minangkabau
Where They Speak
Nepal
Indonesia, Malaysia
How Many People Speak
17,000,000.006,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
1246
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
30.00 million163.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.25 %1.16 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
25.00 million23.00 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
5.00 million140.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
नेपाली (nēpālī)
Bahasa Melayu
Alternative Names
Eastern Pahadi, Gorkhali, Gurkhali, Khaskura, Nepalese, Parbate
Bahasa Indonesia
French Name
népalais
indonésien
German Name
Nepali
Bahasa Indonesia
Pronunciation
[neˈpali]
[bahaˈsa indoneˈsia]
Ethnicity
Gurkha, Khas people, Madhesi and Tharu
Indonesians
Origin
19 BC
7th Century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Austronesian Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Indonesian
Branch
Indic
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Khas language, Gurkhali, Parbatiya, Dzongkha Lhotshammikha
Old Malay
Standard Forms
Nepali
Indonesian
Language Position
5956
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Nepali
Sistem Isyarat Bahasa Indonesia (SIBI, "Signed Indonesian")
Scope
Individual, Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 1
ne
id
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
nep
ind
ISO 639 2/B
nep
ind
ISO 639 3
npi
ind
ISO 639 6
nep
ind
Glottocode
nepa1254
indo1316
Linguasphere
12
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Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
Agglutinative