Countries
India, Nepal
East Java, Island of Madura, North Java, Sapudi Islands, Singapore
Total No. Of Countries
25
0
46
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National Language
Nepal
Indonesia, Island of Madura
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 unique pronunciation system in the Madurese language.
- Madurese was first written using Javanese Alphabets.
Similar To
Hindi
Malay and Javanese Languages
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
4827
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
126
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3621
9
60
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Scripts
Devanagari
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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Hard to Learn
Language Levels
64
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
नमस्ते (namaste)
Halo
Thank You
धन्यवाद (dhanyabad)
matur nuwun
How Are You?
तिमीलाई कस्तो छ? (timi lai kasto cha?)
piye kabare?
Good Night
शुभ रात्री (subha ratri)
wengi sing apik
Good Evening
शुभ सन्ध्या (subha sandhya)
Sugeng sọnten
Good Afternoon
Good afternoon
Sugeng siang
Good Morning
शुभ प्रभात (subha prabhat)
Sugeng énjing
Please
कृपया
tolong
Sorry
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
Nyuwun pangapunten
Bye
नमस्ते (namaste)
Pamit
I Love You
म तपाइलाइ माया गर्छु। (ma tapainlai maya garchu)
Kula tresna panjengan
Excuse Me
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
Nuwun séwu
Dialect 1
Doteli
Kangean
Where They Speak
Nepal
Indonesia
How Many People Speak
790,000.00110,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Bajhangi
Bawean
Where They Speak
India, Nepal
Indonesia
How Many People Speak
17,000,000.008,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Baitadeli
Bangkalan
Where They Speak
Nepal
Indonesia
How Many People Speak
17,000,000.008,000,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
126
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
30.00 million15.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.25 %0.23 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
25.00 million15.00 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
5.00 million14.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
नेपाली (nēpālī)
Madurese
Alternative Names
Eastern Pahadi, Gorkhali, Gurkhali, Khaskura, Nepalese, Parbate
Basa Mathura, Madhura, Madura
French Name
népalais
madourais
German Name
Nepali
Maduresisch
Pronunciation
[neˈpali]
[madura]
Ethnicity
Gurkha, Khas people, Madhesi and Tharu
Madurese
Origin
19 BC
8th Century AD
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Austronesian Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Indonesian
Branch
Indic
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Language Forms
Early Forms
Khas language, Gurkhali, Parbatiya, Dzongkha Lhotshammikha
No early forms
Standard Forms
Nepali
Madurese
Language Position
5969
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Nepali
Madurese Sign Language
Scope
Individual, Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 1
ne
No data Available
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
nep
mad
ISO 639 2/B
nep
mad
ISO 639 3
npi
mad
ISO 639 6
nep
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Glottocode
nepa1254
madu1247
Linguasphere
12
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
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Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
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