Countries
India, Nepal
European Union, Malta
Total No. Of Countries
22
0
46
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National Language
Nepal
Malta
Second Language
Republic of Brazil
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Europe
Minority Language
People's Republic of China
Australia, Canada, Italy, United States of America
Regulated By
Language Academy of Nepal
National Council for the Maltese 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.
- Maltese language is the only semitic language written in Latin characters.
- Maltese language has borrowed many loan words from English, Italian and French.
Similar To
Hindi
Western Arabic Dialects
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
Roman Languages
Alphabets in
Alphabets
4830
18
247
👆🏻
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 weeks30 weeks
3
88
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Hello
नमस्ते (namaste)
Ħello
Thank You
धन्यवाद (dhanyabad)
Grazzi
How Are You?
तिमीलाई कस्तो छ? (timi lai kasto cha?)
Kif int?
Good Night
शुभ रात्री (subha ratri)
Il-Lejla it-tajba
Good Evening
शुभ सन्ध्या (subha sandhya)
Il-Lejla it-tajba
Good Afternoon
Good afternoon
Wara nofs in-nar it-tajjeb
Good Morning
शुभ प्रभात (subha prabhat)
L-għodwa t-tajba
Please
कृपया
Jekk jogħġbok
Sorry
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
Skużani!
Bye
नमस्ते (namaste)
Ċaw
I Love You
म तपाइलाइ माया गर्छु। (ma tapainlai maya garchu)
Inħobbok ħafna
Excuse Me
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
Skużi!
Dialect 1
Doteli
Qormi
Where They Speak
Nepal
Malta
How Many People Speak
790,000.00520,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Bajhangi
Żejtun
Where They Speak
India, Nepal
Malta
How Many People Speak
17,000,000.00500,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Baitadeli
Not Present
Where They Speak
Nepal
-
How Many People Speak
17,000,000.00500,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
122
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
30.00 million0.52 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.25 %0.02 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
25.00 million0.52 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
5.00 million0.50 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
नेपाली (nēpālī)
Malti
Alternative Names
Eastern Pahadi, Gorkhali, Gurkhali, Khaskura, Nepalese, Parbate
Malti
French Name
népalais
maltais
German Name
Nepali
Maltesisch
Pronunciation
[neˈpali]
[mɔːltiːz]
Ethnicity
Gurkha, Khas people, Madhesi and Tharu
Maltese
Origin
19 BC
c. 1470
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Semitic
Branch
Indic
North Abric
Language Forms
Early Forms
Khas language, Gurkhali, Parbatiya, Dzongkha Lhotshammikha
No early forms
Standard Forms
Nepali
Maltese
Language Position
5925
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Nepali
Maltese Sign Language
Scope
Individual, Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 1
ne
mt
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
nep
mlt
ISO 639 2/B
nep
mlt
ISO 639 3
npi
mlt
ISO 639 6
nep
mlt
Glottocode
nepa1254
malt1254
Linguasphere
12
12-AAC-c
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
Synthetic