Countries
India, Nepal
Indonesia
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
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National Language
Nepal
Indonesia
Second Language
Republic of Brazil
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
People's Republic of China
Malaysia, Netherlands, Singapore, Suriname
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.
- The Javanese group is the largest ethnic group in Indonesian.
- The earliest writing in Javanese dates from the 4th Century AD, at that time Javanese was written with the Pallava alphabet.
Similar To
Hindi
Madurese, Sundanese and Balinese Languages
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
4827
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
126
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3621
9
60
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Scripts
Devanagari
Arabic, Javanese, Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
64
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)
matur nuwun
How Are You?
तिमीलाई कस्तो छ? (timi lai kasto cha?)
piye kabare?
Good Night
शुभ रात्री (subha ratri)
wengi sing apik
Good Evening
शुभ सन्ध्या (subha sandhya)
Sugeng sọnten
Good Afternoon
Good afternoon
Sugeng siang
Good Morning
शुभ प्रभात (subha prabhat)
Sugeng énjing
Please
कृपया
matur nuwun
Sorry
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
Nyuwun pangapunten
Bye
नमस्ते (namaste)
Kepanggih malih benjang
I Love You
म तपाइलाइ माया गर्छु। (ma tapainlai maya garchu)
Kula tresna panjengan
Excuse Me
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
Nuwun séwu
Dialect 1
Doteli
Pekalongan
Where They Speak
Nepal
Indonesia
How Many People Speak
790,000.0082,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Bajhangi
Cirebon
Where They Speak
India, Nepal
Indonesia
How Many People Speak
17,000,000.0082,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Baitadeli
Arekan
Where They Speak
Nepal
Indonesia
How Many People Speak
17,000,000.0082,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
1216
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
30.00 million82.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.25 %1.25 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
25.00 million76.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
5.00 million82.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
नेपाली (nēpālī)
basa Jawa
Alternative Names
Eastern Pahadi, Gorkhali, Gurkhali, Khaskura, Nepalese, Parbate
Djawa, Jawa
French Name
népalais
javanais
German Name
Nepali
Javanisch
Pronunciation
[neˈpali]
[dʒɑˈʋɑnɛs]
Ethnicity
Gurkha, Khas people, Madhesi and Tharu
Javanese (Mataram, Osing, Tenggerese, Boyanese, Samin, Cirebonese, Banyumasan, etc)
Origin
19 BC
450 AD
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Austronesian Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Indonesian
Branch
Indic
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Language Forms
Early Forms
Khas language, Gurkhali, Parbatiya, Dzongkha Lhotshammikha
No early forms
Standard Forms
Nepali
Javanese
Language Position
5911
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Nepali
Javanese Sign Language
Scope
Individual, Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 1
ne
jv
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
nep
jav
ISO 639 2/B
nep
jav
ISO 639 3
npi
jav
ISO 639 6
nep
jav
Glottocode
nepa1254
java1253
Linguasphere
12
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
Agglutinative