Countries
India, Nepal
Macedonia
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
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National Language
Nepal
Albania, Bulgaria, Greece, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia
Second Language
Republic of Brazil
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Europe
Minority Language
People's Republic of China
Albania, Romania, Serbia
Regulated By
Language Academy of Nepal
Macedonian Language Institute "Krste Misirkov"
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 are plenty of loan words in Macedonian language from the Serbian, Bulgarian and Russian languages.
- The only Indo-European language that make use of the narrative mood is Macedonian language.
Similar To
Hindi
Bulgarian, Polish, Russian and Serbian Languages
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
4831
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
125
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3626
9
60
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Scripts
Devanagari
Cyrillic, Macedonian Braille
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
63
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
नमस्ते (namaste)
Здраво (Zdravo)
Thank You
धन्यवाद (dhanyabad)
Благодарам (Blagodaram)
How Are You?
तिमीलाई कस्तो छ? (timi lai kasto cha?)
Како си? (Kako si?)
Good Night
शुभ रात्री (subha ratri)
Добра ноќ (Dobra nok)
Good Evening
शुभ सन्ध्या (subha sandhya)
Добра вечер (Dobra večer)
Good Afternoon
Good afternoon
Добар ден (Dobar den)
Good Morning
शुभ प्रभात (subha prabhat)
Добро утро (Dobro utro)
Please
कृपया
Ве молиме (Ve molime)
Sorry
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
жал (žal)
Bye
नमस्ते (namaste)
Чао (Čao)
I Love You
म तपाइलाइ माया गर्छु। (ma tapainlai maya garchu)
Те сакам (Te sakam)
Excuse Me
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
Извинете ме (Izvinete me)
Dialect 1
Doteli
Torlakian
Where They Speak
Nepal
Bulgaria, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia
How Many People Speak
790,000.001.50
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Bajhangi
Debar
Where They Speak
India, Nepal
Macedonia
How Many People Speak
17,000,000.002,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Baitadeli
Galičnik
Where They Speak
Nepal
Macedonia
How Many People Speak
17,000,000.002,100,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
1228
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
30.00 million2.50 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.25 %0.05 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
25.00 million2.50 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
5.00 million2.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
नेपाली (nēpālī)
македонски (Makedonski) македонски јазик (makedonski jazik)
Alternative Names
Eastern Pahadi, Gorkhali, Gurkhali, Khaskura, Nepalese, Parbate
Macedonian Slavic, Makedonski, Slavic
French Name
népalais
macédonien
German Name
Nepali
Makedonisch
Pronunciation
[neˈpali]
[maˈkɛdɔnski ˈjazik]
Ethnicity
Gurkha, Khas people, Madhesi and Tharu
Macedonians
Origin
19 BC
2200 BC
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Slavic
Branch
Indic
Southern
Language Forms
Early Forms
Khas language, Gurkhali, Parbatiya, Dzongkha Lhotshammikha
No early forms
Standard Forms
Nepali
Macedonian
Language Position
5945
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Nepali
Macedonian Sign Language
Scope
Individual, Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 1
ne
mk
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
nep
mkd
ISO 639 2/B
nep
mac
ISO 639 3
npi
mkd
ISO 639 6
nep
mkd
Glottocode
nepa1254
mace1250
Linguasphere
12
53-AAA-ha
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
-
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
Analytic