Countries
India, Nepal
New Zealand
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
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National Language
Nepal
New Zealand
Second Language
Republic of Brazil
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Australia, Oceania
Minority Language
People's Republic of China
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Language Academy of Nepal
Māori Language Commission
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.
- "E korao no New Zealand" was the first printed Maori book in 1815.
- The first newspaper in the Maori language was published in year 1842.
Similar To
Hindi
Tahitian Language
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
4820
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
125
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3610
9
60
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Scripts
Devanagari
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
62
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks24 weeks
3
88
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Hello
नमस्ते (namaste)
Hello
Thank You
धन्यवाद (dhanyabad)
Mauruuru koutou
How Are You?
तिमीलाई कस्तो छ? (timi lai kasto cha?)
E pēhea ana koe ?
Good Night
शुभ रात्री (subha ratri)
Night pai
Good Evening
शुभ सन्ध्या (subha sandhya)
pai ahiahi
Good Afternoon
Good afternoon
Afternoon pai
Good Morning
शुभ प्रभात (subha prabhat)
Morning pai
Please
कृपया
Tēnā
Sorry
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
Aroha mai
Bye
नमस्ते (namaste)
poroporoaki
I Love You
म तपाइलाइ माया गर्छु। (ma tapainlai maya garchu)
Aroha ahau ki a koe
Excuse Me
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
tukua ahau
Dialect 1
Doteli
South Island Māori
Where They Speak
Nepal
New Zealand
How Many People Speak
790,000.00150,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Bajhangi
Western North Island Maori
Where They Speak
India, Nepal
New Zealand
How Many People Speak
17,000,000.00150,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Baitadeli
Eastern North Island Maori
Where They Speak
Nepal
New Zealand
How Many People Speak
17,000,000.00150,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
123
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
30.00 million0.18 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.25 %0.01 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
25.00 million0.18 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
5.00 million0.10 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
नेपाली (nēpālī)
te Reo Māori
Alternative Names
Eastern Pahadi, Gorkhali, Gurkhali, Khaskura, Nepalese, Parbate
New Zealand Maori
French Name
népalais
maori
German Name
Nepali
Maori-Sprache
Pronunciation
[neˈpali]
[ˈmaɔɾi]
Ethnicity
Gurkha, Khas people, Madhesi and Tharu
Māori people
Origin
19 BC
1814
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Austronesian Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Polynesian
Branch
Indic
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Khas language, Gurkhali, Parbatiya, Dzongkha Lhotshammikha
No early forms
Standard Forms
Nepali
Maori
Language Position
5926
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Nepali
Maori Sign Language
Scope
Individual, Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 1
ne
mi
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
nep
mri
ISO 639 2/B
nep
mao
ISO 639 3
npi
mri
ISO 639 6
nep
mri
Glottocode
nepa1254
maor1246
Linguasphere
12
No data Available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
-
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
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