Countries
India, Nepal
Iraq, Kurdistan
Total No. Of Countries
22
0
46
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National Language
Nepal
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Turkey
Second Language
Republic of Brazil
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Middle East
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.
- The vocabulary in Kurdish is of Iranian origin.
- In the middle East, Kurdish is the fourth largest ethnic group.
Similar To
Hindi
Farsi Language
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
4833
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
128
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3629
9
60
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Scripts
Devanagari
Arabic, Cyrillic, Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
64
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks4 weeks
3
88
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Hello
नमस्ते (namaste)
Silaw
Thank You
धन्यवाद (dhanyabad)
Sipas
How Are You?
तिमीलाई कस्तो छ? (timi lai kasto cha?)
Tu çawa yî?
Good Night
शुभ रात्री (subha ratri)
Şev xweş
Good Evening
शुभ सन्ध्या (subha sandhya)
Evare baş
Good Afternoon
Good afternoon
Nee-wa-rowt bash
Good Morning
शुभ प्रभात (subha prabhat)
Bayanit bash
Please
कृपया
Bê zehmet
Sorry
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
Bibûre
Bye
नमस्ते (namaste)
Be xêr çî
I Love You
म तपाइलाइ माया गर्छु। (ma tapainlai maya garchu)
Ez te hez dikem
Excuse Me
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
Bê zehmet
Dialect 1
Doteli
Northern Kurdish
Where They Speak
Nepal
northern Iraq, northern Syria, northwest Iran, southeast Turkey
How Many People Speak
790,000.0020,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Bajhangi
Central Kurdish
Where They Speak
India, Nepal
Iraq, Kurdistan Province of western Iran
How Many People Speak
17,000,000.005,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Baitadeli
Southern Kurdish
Where They Speak
Nepal
Eastern Iraq
How Many People Speak
17,000,000.003,000,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
123
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
30.00 million28.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.25 %0.31 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
25.00 million21.00 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
5.00 million20.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
नेपाली (nēpālī)
Kurdí / کوردی / к’öрди
Alternative Names
Eastern Pahadi, Gorkhali, Gurkhali, Khaskura, Nepalese, Parbate
Kurdî, کوردی
French Name
népalais
kurde
German Name
Nepali
Kurdisch
Pronunciation
[neˈpali]
[kʊɾdɪʃ]
Ethnicity
Gurkha, Khas people, Madhesi and Tharu
Kurds
Origin
19 BC
16th century CE
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Indo-Iranian
Branch
Indic
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Language Forms
Early Forms
Khas language, Gurkhali, Parbatiya, Dzongkha Lhotshammikha
Old Kurdish and Middle Kurdish
Standard Forms
Nepali
Kurdish
Language Position
5914
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Nepali
Kurdish Sign Language
Scope
Individual, Macrolanguage
Macrolanguage
ISO 639 1
ne
ku
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
nep
kur
ISO 639 2/B
nep
kur
ISO 639 3
npi
kur
ISO 639 6
nep
kur
Glottocode
nepa1254
kurd1259
Linguasphere
12
58-AAA-a
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
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