Countries
India, Nepal
Meghalaya
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
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National Language
Nepal
Bangladesh, India
Second Language
Republic of Brazil
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Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
People's Republic of China
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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.
- Khasi language contain a large number of loanwords from Bengali and Hindi Languages.
- There is significant dialectal variation in khasi language, since several dialects have only partial mutual intelligibility.
Similar To
Hindi
Garo and Jaintia Languages
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
4823
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
126
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3614
9
60
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Scripts
Devanagari
Bengali, Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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Hard to Learn
Language Levels
66
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
नमस्ते (namaste)
Kumno
Thank You
धन्यवाद (dhanyabad)
Khublei
How Are You?
तिमीलाई कस्तो छ? (timi lai kasto cha?)
Kumno phi long?
Good Night
शुभ रात्री (subha ratri)
thia sukh
Good Evening
शुभ सन्ध्या (subha sandhya)
babha janmiet
Good Afternoon
Good afternoon
babha noph-phai-sngi
Good Morning
शुभ प्रभात (subha prabhat)
khublei
Please
कृपया
Sngewbha
Sorry
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
Map
Bye
नमस्ते (namaste)
khublei
I Love You
म तपाइलाइ माया गर्छु। (ma tapainlai maya garchu)
ieit ieit
Excuse Me
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
map a nga
Dialect 1
Doteli
Bhoi
Where They Speak
Nepal
-
How Many People Speak
790,000.001,500,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Bajhangi
Nonglung
Where They Speak
India, Nepal
-
How Many People Speak
17,000,000.001,200,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Baitadeli
Cherrapunji
Where They Speak
Nepal
-
How Many People Speak
17,000,000.001,500,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
125
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
30.00 million0.84 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.25 %0.01 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
25.00 million0.84 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
5.00 million1.50 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
नेपाली (nēpālī)
Ka Ktien
Alternative Names
Eastern Pahadi, Gorkhali, Gurkhali, Khaskura, Nepalese, Parbate
Kahasi, Kassi, Khasa, Khashi, Khasiyas, Khuchia
French Name
népalais
khasi
German Name
Nepali
Khasi-Sprache
Pronunciation
[neˈpali]
[ˈkʰɑsi]
Ethnicity
Gurkha, Khas people, Madhesi and Tharu
Khasi people
Origin
19 BC
1200 AD
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Austroasiatic Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
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Branch
Indic
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Language Forms
Early Forms
Khas language, Gurkhali, Parbatiya, Dzongkha Lhotshammikha
No Early Forms
Standard Forms
Nepali
Khasi
Language Position
5940
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Nepali
Khasi Sign Language
Scope
Individual, Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 1
ne
No data available
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
nep
kha
ISO 639 2/B
nep
kha
ISO 639 3
npi
kha
ISO 639 6
nep
kha
Glottocode
nepa1254
khas1269
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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