Countries
India, Nepal
India
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
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National Language
Nepal
India
Second Language
Republic of Brazil
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
People's Republic of China
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Language Academy of Nepal
Govenment of Goa
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.
- Fr. Thomas Stevan wrote the first book in Konkani in 1651.
- Sahitya Academy recognized konkani as a language in year 1976.
Similar To
Hindi
Marathi
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
4852
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
1216
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3636
9
60
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Scripts
Devanagari
Devanagari
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
63
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks4 weeks
3
88
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Hello
नमस्ते (namaste)
Namaskar
Thank You
धन्यवाद (dhanyabad)
Dev Borem Korum
How Are You?
तिमीलाई कस्तो छ? (timi lai kasto cha?)
kaso assa?
Good Night
शुभ रात्री (subha ratri)
Rati Boren Zavonn
Good Evening
शुभ सन्ध्या (subha sandhya)
Sanj Borem Zavonn
Good Afternoon
Good afternoon
संध्याकाळ शुभेच्छा
Good Morning
शुभ प्रभात (subha prabhat)
Dis Borem Zavonn
Please
कृपया
Chike
Sorry
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
Maf kor
Bye
नमस्ते (namaste)
Adeus
I Love You
म तपाइलाइ माया गर्छु। (ma tapainlai maya garchu)
hav tujo mog korta.
Excuse Me
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
upkar korxi
Dialect 1
Doteli
Antruz
Where They Speak
Nepal
Goa
How Many People Speak
790,000.002,500,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Bajhangi
Not present
Where They Speak
India, Nepal
-
How Many People Speak
17,000,000.002,700,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Baitadeli
Not present
Where They Speak
Nepal
-
How Many People Speak
17,000,000.007.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
121
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
30.00 million7.40 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.25 %0.11 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
25.00 million7.40 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
5.00 million8.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
नेपाली (nēpālī)
Kōṅkaṇī
Alternative Names
Eastern Pahadi, Gorkhali, Gurkhali, Khaskura, Nepalese, Parbate
Konkan standard, Bankoti, Kunabi, North Konkan, Central Konkan, Concorinum, Cugani, Konkanese
French Name
népalais
konkani
German Name
Nepali
Konkani
Pronunciation
[neˈpali]
kõkɳi
Ethnicity
Gurkha, Khas people, Madhesi and Tharu
Konkanis
Origin
19 BC
1209 A.D.
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
-
Branch
Indic
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Khas language, Gurkhali, Parbatiya, Dzongkha Lhotshammikha
No early forms
Standard Forms
Nepali
Kokani
Language Position
5923
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Nepali
Indian Signing System (ISS)
Scope
Individual, Macrolanguage
Individual, Macrolanguage
ISO 639 1
ne
No data available
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
nep
kok
ISO 639 2/B
nep
kok
ISO 639 3
npi
kok
ISO 639 6
nep
kok
Glottocode
nepa1254
goan1235
Linguasphere
12
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
-