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Nepali
Nepali

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Countries

Countries

India, Nepal
Japan

Total No. Of Countries

21
0 46
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National Language

Nepal
Japan

Second Language

Republic of Brazil
Not spoken in any of the countries

Speaking Continents

Asia
Asia, Pacific

Minority Language

People's Republic of China
Palau

Regulated By

Language Academy of Nepal
Agency for Cultural Affairs (文化庁) at the Ministry of Education

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 Japanese Language, there are 4 different ways to address people: kun, chan, san and sama.
  • There are many words in Japanese language which end with vowel letter, which determines the structure and rhythm of Japanese.

Similar To

Hindi
Korean Language

Derived From

Sanskrit Language
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Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

4899
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

125
0 32
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How Many Consonants

3614
9 60
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Scripts

Devanagari
Kana

Writing Direction

Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

65
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

44 weeks88 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

नमस्ते (namaste)
こんにちは (Kon'nichiwa)

Thank You

धन्यवाद (dhanyabad)
ありがとう (Arigatō)

How Are You?

तिमीलाई कस्तो छ? (timi lai kasto cha?)
お元気ですか (O genki desu ka?)

Good Night

शुभ रात्री (subha ratri)
おやすみなさい (Oyasuminasai)

Good Evening

शुभ सन्ध्या (subha sandhya)
こんばんは (Konbanwa)

Good Afternoon

Good afternoon
こんにちは (Konnichiwa!)

Good Morning

शुभ प्रभात (subha prabhat)
おはよう (Ohayō)

Please

कृपया
お願いします (Onegaishimasu)

Sorry

माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
ごめんなさい (Gomen'nasai)

Bye

नमस्ते (namaste)
さようなら (Sayōnara)

I Love You

म तपाइलाइ माया गर्छु। (ma tapainlai maya garchu)
愛しています (Aishiteimasu)

Excuse Me

माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
すみません (Sumimasen)

Dialects

Dialect 1

Doteli
Sanuki

Where They Speak

Nepal
Kagawa

How Many People Speak

790,000.001,000,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Bajhangi
Hakata

Where They Speak

India, Nepal
Fukuoka

How Many People Speak

17,000,000.00127,000,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Baitadeli
Kansai

Where They Speak

Nepal
kansai

How Many People Speak

17,000,000.00127,000,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

1231
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

30.00 million128.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.25 %1.90 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

25.00 million128.00 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

5.00 million3.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

नेपाली (nēpālī)
日本語

Alternative Names

Eastern Pahadi, Gorkhali, Gurkhali, Khaskura, Nepalese, Parbate
Nihongo

French Name

népalais
japonais

German Name

Nepali
Japanisch

Pronunciation

[neˈpali]
/nihoɴɡo/: [nihõŋɡo], [nihõŋŋo]

Ethnicity

Gurkha, Khas people, Madhesi and Tharu
Japanese (Yamato)

History

Origin

19 BC
1185

Language Family

Indo-European Family
Japonic Family

Subgroup

Indo-Iranian
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Branch

Indic
-

Language Forms

Early Forms

Khas language, Gurkhali, Parbatiya, Dzongkha Lhotshammikha
Old Japanese, Early Middle Japanese, Late Middle Japanese and Early Modern Japanese

Standard Forms

Nepali
Japanese

Language Position

598
1 120
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Signed Forms

Signed Nepali
Signed Japanese

Scope

Individual, Macrolanguage
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

ne
ja

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

nep
jpn

ISO 639 2/B

nep
jpn

ISO 639 3

npi
jpn

ISO 639 6

nep
jpn

Glottocode

nepa1254
nucl1643

Linguasphere

12
45-CAA-a

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Object-Verb

Language Morphological Typology

Agglutinative
Agglutinative, Synthetic

Nepali and Japanese Alphabets

Nepali and Japanese Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Nepali and Japanese. In Nepali Alphabets there are 48 letters while in Japanese Alphabets there are 99 letters. To learn Nepali and Japanese languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Nepali and Japanese languages. The Nepali phonology consist Nepali vowels and Nepali consonants. After alphabets, words are to be learned and after words, phrases in that language. Take a look at Nepali greetings vs Japanese greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Nepali and Japanese are Most Spoken Languages.

All Nepali and Japanese Dialects

Most languages have dialects where each dialect differ from other dialect with respect to grammar and vocabulary. Here you will get to know all Nepali and Japanese dialects. Various dialects of Nepali and Japanese language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Nepali are spoken in different Nepali Speaking Countries whereas Japanese Dialects are spoken in different Japanese speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Nepali vs Japanese Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Nepali dialects include: Doteli, Bajhangi. Japanese dialects include: Sanuki , Hakata. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

Nepali and Japanese Speaking population

Nepali and Japanese speaking population is one of the factors based on which Nepali and Japanese languages can be compared. The total count of Nepali and Japanese Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Nepali language is 0.25 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Japanese language is 1.90 %. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak Nepali and Japanese on Nepali vs Japanese where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Nepali and Japanese Language Codes

Nepali and Japanese language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Nepali and Japanese Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.