Countries
India, Nepal
Burma
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
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National Language
Nepal
Burundi, Gambia
Second Language
Republic of Brazil
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Africa, Asia
Minority Language
People's Republic of China
Not spoken in any of the countries
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.
- Kirundi language is tonal, since it has high and low essential tones.
- Kirundi Language is referred as a language where Meeussen's rule is active, this rule describes a certain pattern of tonal change in Bantu languages.
Similar To
Hindi
Kinyarwanda Language
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
4821
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
125
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3619
9
60
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Scripts
Devanagari
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 weeks36 weeks
3
88
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Hello
नमस्ते (namaste)
Bwakeye
Thank You
धन्यवाद (dhanyabad)
Urakoze
How Are You?
तिमीलाई कस्तो छ? (timi lai kasto cha?)
Urakomeye?
Good Night
शुभ रात्री (subha ratri)
Ijoro ryiza
Good Evening
शुभ सन्ध्या (subha sandhya)
Mwiriwe
Good Afternoon
Good afternoon
Mwiriwe
Good Morning
शुभ प्रभात (subha prabhat)
Mwaramutse
Please
कृपया
Ndagusavye
Sorry
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
Ndasubiza
Bye
नमस्ते (namaste)
N’agasaga
I Love You
म तपाइलाइ माया गर्छु। (ma tapainlai maya garchu)
Ndi waramutse
Excuse Me
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
Ndasaba
Dialect 1
Doteli
Rwanda-Rundi
Where They Speak
Nepal
Burundi, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda
How Many People Speak
790,000.0020,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Bajhangi
Ha
Where They Speak
India, Nepal
Tanzania
How Many People Speak
17,000,000.00990,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Baitadeli
Shubi
Where They Speak
Nepal
Tanzania
How Many People Speak
17,000,000.00153,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
126
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
30.00 million8.80 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.25 %0.13 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
25.00 million8.80 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
5.00 million12.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
नेपाली (nēpālī)
íkiRǔndi
Alternative Names
Eastern Pahadi, Gorkhali, Gurkhali, Khaskura, Nepalese, Parbate
Rundi, Urundi
French Name
népalais
rundi
German Name
Nepali
Kirundi
Pronunciation
[neˈpali]
[kɪˈrʊndi]
Ethnicity
Gurkha, Khas people, Madhesi and Tharu
Hutu, Tutsi, and Twa
Origin
19 BC
1500
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Niger-Congo 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
Kirundi
Language Position
5986
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Nepali
Kirundi Sign Language
Scope
Individual, Macrolanguage
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ISO 639 1
ne
rn
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
nep
run
ISO 639 2/B
nep
run
ISO 639 3
npi
run
ISO 639 6
nep
run
Glottocode
nepa1254
rund1242
Linguasphere
12
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
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Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
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Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
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