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Nepali
Nepali

Khasi
Khasi



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Countries

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
-

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

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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Greetings

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

Dialects

Dialect 1

Doteli
Bhoi

Where They Speak

Nepal
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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
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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

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

History

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

Code

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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Nepali and Khasi Alphabets

Nepali and Khasi Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Nepali and Khasi. In Nepali Alphabets there are 48 letters while in Khasi Alphabets there are 23 letters. To learn Nepali and Khasi languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Nepali and Khasi 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 Khasi greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Nepali and Khasi are Most Spoken Languages.

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

Nepali and Khasi Speaking population

Nepali and Khasi speaking population is one of the factors based on which Nepali and Khasi languages can be compared. The total count of Nepali and Khasi Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Nepali language is 0.25 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Khasi language is 0.01 %. 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 Khasi on Nepali vs Khasi where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Nepali and Khasi Language Codes

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