Countries
India, Nepal
Brunei, Malaysia, Singapore
Total No. Of Countries
23
0
46
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National Language
Nepal
Malaysia
Second Language
Republic of Brazil
Indonesia
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
People's Republic of China
Thailand
Regulated By
Language Academy of Nepal
Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka
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.
- One of the most politically powerful language historically is Malaysian Language.
- Malaysian earliest known inscriptions were found in South of Sumatra way back in 683-6 AD.
Similar To
Hindi
Indonesian Language
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
Tamil Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
4826
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
126
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3624
9
60
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Scripts
Devanagari
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
66
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks36 weeks
3
88
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Hello
नमस्ते (namaste)
Hai
Thank You
धन्यवाद (dhanyabad)
terima kasih
How Are You?
तिमीलाई कस्तो छ? (timi lai kasto cha?)
Apa khabar?
Good Night
शुभ रात्री (subha ratri)
Selamat Malam
Good Evening
शुभ सन्ध्या (subha sandhya)
Selamat Petang
Good Afternoon
Good afternoon
Selamat tengah hari
Good Morning
शुभ प्रभात (subha prabhat)
Selamat pagi
Please
कृपया
sila
Sorry
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
maaf
Bye
नमस्ते (namaste)
Selamat tinggal
I Love You
म तपाइलाइ माया गर्छु। (ma tapainlai maya garchu)
Saya sayang kamu
Excuse Me
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
Maafkan saya
Dialect 1
Doteli
Bengkulu
Where They Speak
Nepal
Bengkulu Province, Sumatra
How Many People Speak
790,000.001,600,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Bajhangi
Pekal
Where They Speak
India, Nepal
Indonesia
How Many People Speak
17,000,000.0030,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Baitadeli
Musi
Where They Speak
Nepal
Indonesia
How Many People Speak
17,000,000.003,100,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
1224
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
30.00 million175.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.25 %1.16 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
25.00 million77.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
5.00 million98.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
नेपाली (nēpālī)
Bahasa melayu
Alternative Names
Eastern Pahadi, Gorkhali, Gurkhali, Khaskura, Nepalese, Parbate
Bahasa Malaysia
French Name
népalais
malais
German Name
Nepali
Malaiisch
Pronunciation
[neˈpali]
[baˈhasə malajˈsiə]
Ethnicity
Gurkha, Khas people, Madhesi and Tharu
Malaysian people
Origin
19 BC
c. 683 AD
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Austronesian Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
-
Branch
Indic
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Khas language, Gurkhali, Parbatiya, Dzongkha Lhotshammikha
Ancient Malay, Old Malay, Pre-Modern MalayClassical Malay,
Standard Forms
Nepali
Pluricentric Standard Malay
Language Position
5954
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Nepali
Malaysian Sign Language
Scope
Individual, Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 1
ne
ms
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
nep
msa
ISO 639 2/B
nep
may
ISO 639 3
npi
zsm
ISO 639 6
nep
may
Glottocode
nepa1254
stan1306
Linguasphere
12
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Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
-
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
Agglutinative