Countries
India, Nepal
Laos
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
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National Language
Nepal
Laos, Northeastern Thailand
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
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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.
- There is no space left between words, only between phrases or sentences in Lao language.
- The Lao alphabets has been reformed many times over the past 50 years.
Similar To
Hindi
Thai Language
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
Pali, Sanskrit and Old Khmer Languages
Alphabets in
Alphabets
4853
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
1228
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3627
9
60
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Scripts
Devanagari
Thai and Lao Braille
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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)
ສະບາຍດີ (sába̖ai-di̖i)
Thank You
धन्यवाद (dhanyabad)
ຂອບໃຈ (khàwp ja̖i)
How Are You?
तिमीलाई कस्तो छ? (timi lai kasto cha?)
ສະບາຍດີບ (sába̖ai-di̖i baw?)
Good Night
शुभ रात्री (subha ratri)
ໃນຕອນກາງຄືນ ທີ່ດີ (naitonkangkhun thidi)
Good Evening
शुभ सन्ध्या (subha sandhya)
ສະບາຍດີຕອນແລງ (sa bai di ton aelng)
Good Afternoon
Good afternoon
ສະບາຍດີຕອນສວາຍ (sa bai di ton suaai)
Good Morning
शुभ प्रभात (subha prabhat)
ສະບາຍດີຕອນເຊົ້າ (sa bai di ton sao)
Please
कृपया
ກະລຸນາ (kaluna)
Sorry
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
ຂໍອະໄພ (khooaphai)
Bye
नमस्ते (namaste)
Sôhk dii der
I Love You
म तपाइलाइ माया गर्छु। (ma tapainlai maya garchu)
ຂ້ອຍຮັກເຈົ້າ (khony hak chao)
Excuse Me
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
ຂໍໂທດ (kho othd)
Dialect 1
Doteli
Vientiane Lao
Where They Speak
Nepal
Laos
How Many People Speak
790,000.003,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Bajhangi
Northern Lao
Where They Speak
India, Nepal
Laos
How Many People Speak
17,000,000.003,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Baitadeli
Central Lao
Where They Speak
Nepal
Laos
How Many People Speak
17,000,000.003,000,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
126
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
30.00 million25.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.25 %0.22 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
25.00 million25.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
5.00 million3.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
नेपाली (nēpālī)
ພາສາລາວ (pháasaa láo)
Alternative Names
Eastern Pahadi, Gorkhali, Gurkhali, Khaskura, Nepalese, Parbate
Eastern Thai, Lào, Lao Kao, Lao Wiang, Lao-Lum, Lao-Noi, Lao-Tai, Laotian, Laotian Tai, Lum Lao, Phou Lao, Rong Kong, Tai Lao
French Name
népalais
lao
German Name
Nepali
Laotisch
Pronunciation
[neˈpali]
pʰáːsǎː láːw
Ethnicity
Gurkha, Khas people, Madhesi and Tharu
Lao people
Origin
19 BC
1283 CE
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Tai-Kadai Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Tai
Branch
Indic
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Language Forms
Early Forms
Khas language, Gurkhali, Parbatiya, Dzongkha Lhotshammikha
No Early forms
Standard Forms
Nepali
Lao
Language Position
5943
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Nepali
Lao Sign Language
Scope
Individual, Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 1
ne
lo
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
nep
lao
ISO 639 2/B
nep
lao
ISO 639 3
npi
lao
ISO 639 6
nep
lao
Glottocode
nepa1254
laoo1244
Linguasphere
12
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
Isolating