Countries
India, Nepal
China, Mongolia
Total No. Of Countries
22
0
46
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National Language
Nepal
China, Mongolia
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
Council for Language and Literature Work, State Language Council (Mongolia)
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.
- Mongolian was first written using Phagspa script in late 13th century.
- There is no connection between Mongolian, Japanese and Korean, but still in terms of grammar and sentence structure they are very similar.
Similar To
Hindi
Turkish Language
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
4835
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
1213
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3620
9
60
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Scripts
Devanagari
Mongolian alphabets: Traditional Mongolian script
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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Hard to Learn
Language Levels
63
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
नमस्ते (namaste)
Сайн уу (Sain uu)
Thank You
धन्यवाद (dhanyabad)
та бүхэнд баярлалаа (ta bükhend bayarlalaa)
How Are You?
तिमीलाई कस्तो छ? (timi lai kasto cha?)
Юу байна? (Yuu baina?)
Good Night
शुभ रात्री (subha ratri)
Сайн шөнийн (Sain shöniin)
Good Evening
शुभ सन्ध्या (subha sandhya)
Сайн үдэш (Sain üdesh)
Good Afternoon
Good afternoon
Сайн Үдээс хойш (Sain Üdees khoish)
Good Morning
शुभ प्रभात (subha prabhat)
Өглөөний мэнд (Öglöönii mend)
Please
कृपया
Хэрэв (Kherev)
Sorry
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
Уучлаарай (Uuchlaarai)
Bye
नमस्ते (namaste)
Баяртай (Bayartai)
I Love You
म तपाइलाइ माया गर्छु। (ma tapainlai maya garchu)
Би чамд хайртай (Bi chamd khairtai)
Excuse Me
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
Өршөөгөөрэй (Örshöögöörei)
Dialect 1
Doteli
Khalkha Mongolian
Where They Speak
Nepal
Mongolia
How Many People Speak
790,000.006,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Bajhangi
Ordos Mongolian
Where They Speak
India, Nepal
Mongolia
How Many People Speak
17,000,000.00123,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Baitadeli
Khorchin Mongolian
Where They Speak
Nepal
Mongolia
How Many People Speak
17,000,000.005,700,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
128
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
30.00 million5.70 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.25 %0.14 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
25.00 million5.70 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
5.00 million5.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
नेपाली (nēpālī)
монгол (mongol) монгол хэл (mongol hêl)
Alternative Names
Eastern Pahadi, Gorkhali, Gurkhali, Khaskura, Nepalese, Parbate
Khalkha, Buryat, Oirat
French Name
népalais
mongol
German Name
Nepali
Mongolisch
Pronunciation
[neˈpali]
/mɔŋɢɔ̆ɮ xiɮ/
Ethnicity
Gurkha, Khas people, Madhesi and Tharu
Mongols
Origin
19 BC
1224-1225
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Mongolic family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Mongolian
Branch
Indic
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Language Forms
Early Forms
Khas language, Gurkhali, Parbatiya, Dzongkha Lhotshammikha
Middle Mongolian, Classical Mongolian, Mongolian
Standard Forms
Nepali
Khalkha, Southern Mongolian
Language Position
5926
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Nepali
Mongolian Sign Language
Scope
Individual, Macrolanguage
Macrolanguage
ISO 639 1
ne
mn
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
nep
mon
ISO 639 2/B
nep
mon
ISO 639 3
npi
mon
ISO 639 6
nep
mon
Glottocode
nepa1254
mong1331
Linguasphere
12
part of 44-BAA-b
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
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