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1 Countries
1.1 Countries
India, Nepal
India, Nepal
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
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2
Rank: 13 (Overall)
2
Rank: 13 (Overall)
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1.3 National Language
Nepal
India, Nepal
1.4 Second Language
Republic of Brazil
Nepal
1.5 Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
1.6 Minority Language
People's Republic of China
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.7 Regulated By
Language Academy of Nepal
Not Available
1.8 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.
  • Earlier, Maithili language was considered as the dialect of Hindi and Bengali, however in the year 2003 Maithili achieved an independent language status in India.
  • Maithili has rich literature.
1.9 Similar To
Hindi
Bhojpuri Language
1.10 Derived From
Sanskrit Language
Not Available
2 Alphabets
2.1 Alphabets in
2.2 Alphabets
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48
Rank: 28 (Overall)
47
Rank: 27 (Overall)
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2.3 Phonology
2.3.1 How Many Vowels
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12
Rank: 9 (Overall)
8
Rank: 5 (Overall)
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2.3.2 How Many Consonants
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36
Rank: 26 (Overall)
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Rank: N/A (Overall)
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2.4 Scripts
Devanagari
Devanagari
2.5 Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Not Available
2.6 Hard to Learn
2.6.1 Language Levels
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6
Rank: 5 (Overall)
Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall)
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2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
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44 weeks
Rank: 11 (Overall)
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Rank: N/A (Overall)
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3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
नमस्ते (namaste)
pranam
3.2 Thank You
धन्यवाद (dhanyabad)
dhanyabad
3.3 How Are You?
तिमीलाई कस्तो छ? (timi lai kasto cha?)
Aahan kehan chhi ?
3.4 Good Night
शुभ रात्री (subha ratri)
Śubharātri
3.5 Good Evening
शुभ सन्ध्या (subha sandhya)
shubh sandhya
3.6 Good Afternoon
Good afternoon
dopahar ke bad namaskar
3.7 Good Morning
शुभ प्रभात (subha prabhat)
Suprabhaat
3.8 Please
कृपया
kripaya
3.9 Sorry
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
maf karai
3.10 Bye
नमस्ते (namaste)
Alavidā
3.11 I Love You
म तपाइलाइ माया गर्छु। (ma tapainlai maya garchu)
hawm ahāṃ se prem karechi
3.12 Excuse Me
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
kripaya
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Doteli
Tharuwat
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Nepal
Nepal
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
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790,000.00
Rank: 30 (Overall)
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Rank: N/A (Overall)
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4.2 Dialect 2
Bajhangi
Madhubani
4.2.1 Where They Speak
India, Nepal
North India
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
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Rank: N/A (Overall)
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Rank: N/A (Overall)
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4.3 Dialect 3
Baitadeli
Khortha
4.3.1 Where They Speak
Nepal
Deoghar, France
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
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4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
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12
Rank: 12 (Overall)
15
Rank: 14 (Overall)
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5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
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30.00 million
Rank: 36 (Overall)
32.00 million
Rank: 35 (Overall)
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5.2 Speaking Population
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0.25 %
Rank: 41 (Overall)
0.41 %
Rank: 33 (Overall)
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5.3 Native Speakers
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25.00 million
Rank: 32 (Overall)
27.00 million
Rank: 30 (Overall)
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5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
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5.00 million
Rank: 29 (Overall)
2.80 million
Rank: 33 (Overall)
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5.3.2 Native Name
नेपाली (nēpālī)
मैथिली (mɛtʰilī)
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Eastern Pahadi, Gorkhali, Gurkhali, Khaskura, Nepalese, Parbate
Apabhramsa, Bihari, Maitili, Maitli, Methli, Tirahutia, Tirhuti, Tirhutia
5.3.4 French Name
népalais
maithili
5.3.5 German Name
Nepali
Maithili
5.4 Pronunciation
Not Available
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5.5 Ethnicity
Gurkha, Khas people, Madhesi and Tharu
Maithil
6 History
6.1 Origin
19 BC
14th century
6.2 Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
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6.2.2 Branch
Indic
Not Available
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
Khas language, Gurkhali, Parbatiya, Dzongkha Lhotshammikha
No early forms
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Nepali
Standard Maithili
6.3.3 Language Position
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Rank: 31 (Overall)
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6.3.4 Signed Forms
Signed Nepali
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6.4 Scope
Individual, Macrolanguage
Individual
7 Code
7.1 ISO 639 1
ne
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7.2 ISO 639 2
7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
nep
mai
7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
nep
mai
7.3 ISO 639 3
npi
mai
7.4 ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
7.5 Glottocode
nepa1254
mait1250
7.6 Linguasphere
12
No data available
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
Living
Living
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
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7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
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Nepali and Maithili Alphabets

Nepali and Maithili Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Nepali and Maithili. In Nepali Alphabets there are 48 letters while in Maithili Alphabets there are 47 letters. To learn Nepali and Maithili languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Nepali and Maithili languages. The Nepali phonology consist Nepali vowels and Nepali consonants. After alphabets, words are to be learned and after words, phrases in that language. Take a look at Nepali greetings vs Maithili greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Nepali and Maithili are Most Spoken Languages.

All Nepali and Maithili Dialects

Most languages have dialects where each dialect differ from other dialect with respect to grammar and vocabulary. Here you will get to know all Nepali and Maithili dialects. Various dialects of Nepali and Maithili language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Nepali are spoken in different Nepali Speaking Countries whereas Maithili Dialects are spoken in different Maithili speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Nepali vs Maithili Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Nepali dialects include: Doteli, Bajhangi. Maithili dialects include: Tharuwat , Madhubani. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

Nepali and Maithili Speaking population

Nepali and Maithili speaking population is one of the factors based on which Nepali and Maithili languages can be compared. The total count of Nepali and Maithili Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Nepali language is 0.25 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Maithili language is 0.41 %. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak Nepali and Maithili on Nepali vs Maithili where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Nepali and Maithili Language Codes

Nepali and Maithili language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Nepali and Maithili Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.

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