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Countries

Countries

India, Nepal
India, Karnataka, India

Total No. Of Countries

21
0 46
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National Language

Nepal
Karnataka, India

Second Language

Republic of Brazil
Goa

Speaking Continents

Asia
Asia

Minority Language

People's Republic of China
Andra Pradesh, Goa, kerala, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Telangana

Regulated By

Language Academy of Nepal
Various academies and the Government of Karnataka

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.
  • Kannada is the third oldest language after Sanskrit and Tamil of India
  • Kannada language is only Indian language which got maximum i.e. 8 GyanaPeetha Awards.

Similar To

Hindi
Telugu

Derived From

Sanskrit Language
Sanskrit Language

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

4849
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

1214
0 32
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How Many Consonants

3635
9 60
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Scripts

Devanagari
Kannada Script

Writing Direction

Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

65
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

44 weeks44 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

नमस्ते (namaste)
ಹಲೋ (Halō)

Thank You

धन्यवाद (dhanyabad)
ಧನ್ಯವಾದಗಳು (Dhan'yavādagaḷu)

How Are You?

तिमीलाई कस्तो छ? (timi lai kasto cha?)
ನೀವು ಹೇಗಿದ್ದೀರಿ? (Nīvu hēgiddīri?)

Good Night

शुभ रात्री (subha ratri)
ಶುಭ ರಾತ್ರಿ (Śubha rātri)

Good Evening

शुभ सन्ध्या (subha sandhya)
ಶುಭ ಸಂಜೆ (Śubha san̄je)

Good Afternoon

Good afternoon
ಉತ್ತಮ ಮಧ್ಯಾಹ್ನ (Uttama madhyāhna)

Good Morning

शुभ प्रभात (subha prabhat)
ಶುಭೋದಯ (Śubhōdaya)

Please

कृपया
ದಯವಿಟ್ಟು (Dayaviṭṭu)

Sorry

माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
ಕ್ಷಮಿಸಿ (Kṣamisi)

Bye

नमस्ते (namaste)
ಬೈ (Bai)

I Love You

म तपाइलाइ माया गर्छु। (ma tapainlai maya garchu)
ನಾನು ನಿನ್ನ ಪ್ರೀತಿಸುತ್ತೇನೆ (Nānu ninna prītisuttēne)

Excuse Me

माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
ಕ್ಷಮಿಸಿ (kshamisi)

Dialects

Dialect 1

Doteli
Badaga

Where They Speak

Nepal
Tamil Nadu, The Nilgiris

How Many People Speak

790,000.00540,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Bajhangi
Urali

Where They Speak

India, Nepal
kerala

How Many People Speak

17,000,000.006,440.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Baitadeli
Kurumba

Where They Speak

Nepal
Andra Pradesh, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu

How Many People Speak

17,000,000.00220,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

1220
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

30.00 million49.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.25 %0.58 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

25.00 million38.00 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

5.00 million11.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

नेपाली (nēpālī)
ಕನ್ನಡ (kannaḍa)

Alternative Names

Eastern Pahadi, Gorkhali, Gurkhali, Khaskura, Nepalese, Parbate
Banglori, Canarese, Havyaka, Kanarese, Madrassi

French Name

népalais
kannada

German Name

Nepali
Kannada

Pronunciation

[neˈpali]
[ˈkʌnnəɖɑː]

Ethnicity

Gurkha, Khas people, Madhesi and Tharu
Kannadiga

History

Origin

19 BC
c. 450

Language Family

Indo-European Family
Dravidian Family

Subgroup

Indo-Iranian
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Branch

Indic
-

Language Forms

Early Forms

Khas language, Gurkhali, Parbatiya, Dzongkha Lhotshammikha
Old Kannada, Kannada

Standard Forms

Nepali
Modern Kannada

Language Position

5931
1 120
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Signed Forms

Signed Nepali
Indian Signing System (ISS)

Scope

Individual, Macrolanguage
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

ne
kn

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

nep
kan

ISO 639 2/B

nep
kan

ISO 639 3

npi
kan

ISO 639 6

nep
kan

Glottocode

nepa1254
nucl1305

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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Nepali and Kannada Alphabets

Nepali and Kannada Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Nepali and Kannada. In Nepali Alphabets there are 48 letters while in Kannada Alphabets there are 49 letters. To learn Nepali and Kannada languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Nepali and Kannada 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 Kannada greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Nepali and Kannada are Most Spoken Languages.

All Nepali and Kannada 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 Kannada dialects. Various dialects of Nepali and Kannada language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Nepali are spoken in different Nepali Speaking Countries whereas Kannada Dialects are spoken in different Kannada speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Nepali vs Kannada Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Nepali dialects include: Doteli, Bajhangi. Kannada dialects include: Badaga , Urali. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

Nepali and Kannada Speaking population

Nepali and Kannada speaking population is one of the factors based on which Nepali and Kannada languages can be compared. The total count of Nepali and Kannada Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Nepali language is 0.25 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Kannada language is 0.58 %. 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 Kannada on Nepali vs Kannada where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Nepali and Kannada Language Codes

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