Countries
India, Nepal
European Union, Latvia
Total No. Of Countries
22
0
46
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National Language
Nepal
Latvia
Second Language
Republic of Brazil
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Europe
Minority Language
People's Republic of China
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Language Academy of Nepal
Latvian State Language Center
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 first written form of Latvian dates from 16th century was found in religious texts.
- The old latvian language was based on the a Gothic script.
Similar To
Hindi
Lithuanian Language
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
4833
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
129
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
3624
9
60
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Scripts
Devanagari
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
66
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
नमस्ते (namaste)
Sveiki
Thank You
धन्यवाद (dhanyabad)
Paldies
How Are You?
तिमीलाई कस्तो छ? (timi lai kasto cha?)
Kā jums klājas?
Good Night
शुभ रात्री (subha ratri)
Ar labunakti
Good Evening
शुभ सन्ध्या (subha sandhya)
Labvakar
Good Afternoon
Good afternoon
Labdien
Good Morning
शुभ प्रभात (subha prabhat)
Labrīt
Please
कृपया
lūdzu
Sorry
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
Piedodiet!
Bye
नमस्ते (namaste)
Uz redzēšanos
I Love You
म तपाइलाइ माया गर्छु। (ma tapainlai maya garchu)
Es tevi mīlu
Excuse Me
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
Piedodiet!
Dialect 1
Doteli
Livonian
Where They Speak
Nepal
Latvia
How Many People Speak
790,000.001,500,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Bajhangi
Middle Latvian
Where They Speak
India, Nepal
Latvia
How Many People Speak
17,000,000.002,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Baitadeli
High Latvian
Where They Speak
Nepal
France, Latvia
How Many People Speak
17,000,000.001,500,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
123
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
30.00 million1.75 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.25 %0.07 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
25.00 million1.75 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
5.00 million2.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
नेपाली (nēpālī)
latviešu valoda
Alternative Names
Eastern Pahadi, Gorkhali, Gurkhali, Khaskura, Nepalese, Parbate
Lettish
French Name
népalais
letton
German Name
Nepali
Lettisch
Pronunciation
[neˈpali]
[ˈlætviən]
Ethnicity
Gurkha, Khas people, Madhesi and Tharu
Latvians or Letts
Origin
19 BC
1530
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Baltic
Branch
Indic
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Khas language, Gurkhali, Parbatiya, Dzongkha Lhotshammikha
No early forms
Standard Forms
Nepali
Latvian
Language Position
599
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Nepali
Latvian Sign Language
Scope
Individual, Macrolanguage
Macrolanguage
ISO 639 1
ne
lv
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
nep
lav
ISO 639 2/B
nep
lav
ISO 639 3
npi
lav
ISO 639 6
nep
lav
Glottocode
nepa1254
latv1249
Linguasphere
12
54-AAB-a
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
Synthetic