Countries
Countries
India, Nepal
European Union, Lithuania
Total No. Of Countries
22
0
46
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National Language
Nepal
Lithuania
Second Language
Republic of Brazil
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Europe
Minority Language
People's Republic of China
Poland
Regulated By
Language Academy of Nepal
Commission of the Lithuanian Language
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.
- Lithuanian has many loanwords that originate from Slavic, Germanic and other Baltic languages.
- "Catheciusmus" is the oldest known book in Lithuanian language in 1547.
Similar To
Hindi
Latvian
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
Not Available
Alphabets
Alphabets in
Alphabets
4832
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
1212
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3620
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
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Greetings
Hello
नमस्ते (namaste)
Sveiki
Thank You
धन्यवाद (dhanyabad)
Ačiū
How Are You?
तिमीलाई कस्तो छ? (timi lai kasto cha?)
Kaip sekasi?
Good Night
शुभ रात्री (subha ratri)
Labanakt
Good Evening
शुभ सन्ध्या (subha sandhya)
Labas vakaras
Good Afternoon
Good afternoon
Laba diena
Good Morning
शुभ प्रभात (subha prabhat)
Labas rytas
Please
कृपया
Prašom
Sorry
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
atsiprašau
Bye
नमस्ते (namaste)
Ate
I Love You
म तपाइलाइ माया गर्छु। (ma tapainlai maya garchu)
Aš myliu tave
Excuse Me
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
Atsiprašau
Dialects
Dialect 1
Doteli
Samogitian
Where They Speak
Nepal
Lithuania
How Many People Speak
790,000.00500,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Bajhangi
Aukštaitian
Where They Speak
India, Nepal
Lithuania
How Many People Speak
NANA
700
80000000
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Dialect 3
Baitadeli
Curonian
Where They Speak
Nepal
Lithuania
How Many People Speak
NANA
1400
96000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
1210
0
188
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How Many People Speak
How Many People Speak?
30.00 million3.00 million
0.13
1200
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Speaking Population
0.25 %NA
0.11
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
25.00 million3.00 million
0.13
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
5.00 millionNA
0.01
400
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Native Name
नेपाली (nēpālī)
lietuvių kalba
Alternative Names
Eastern Pahadi, Gorkhali, Gurkhali, Khaskura, Nepalese, Parbate
Lietuvi, Lietuviskai, Litauische, Litewski, Litovskiy
French Name
népalais
lituanien
German Name
Nepali
Litauisch
Pronunciation
Not Available
Not Available
Ethnicity
Gurkha, Khas people, Madhesi and Tharu
Lithuanians
History
Origin
19 BC
c. 1503
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Not Available
Branch
Indic
Baltic
Language Forms
Early Forms
Khas language, Gurkhali, Parbatiya, Dzongkha Lhotshammikha
No early forms
Standard Forms
Nepali
Lithuanian
Language Position
59NA
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Nepali
Lithuanian Sign Language
Scope
Individual, Macrolanguage
Individual
Code
ISO 639 1
ne
lt
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
nep
lit
ISO 639 2/B
nep
lit
ISO 639 3
npi
lit
ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
Glottocode
nepa1254
lith1251
Linguasphere
12
54-AAA-a
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Not Available
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
Synthetic