Countries
India, Nepal
Burkina Faso
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
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National Language
Nepal
Benin, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Ivory coast, Mali, Togo
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
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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.
- Mossi languages use pitch to distinguish meanings.
- Mossi is the 2nd largest ethnic group in Ivory Coast.
Similar To
Hindi
Dagbani Language
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
4826
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
128
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3616
9
60
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Scripts
Devanagari
Latin
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 weeks30 weeks
3
88
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Hello
नमस्ते (namaste)
Kia ora
Thank You
धन्यवाद (dhanyabad)
Laafi bala
How Are You?
तिमीलाई कस्तो छ? (timi lai kasto cha?)
Laafi beme ?
Good Night
शुभ रात्री (subha ratri)
Ne y yungo
Good Evening
शुभ सन्ध्या (subha sandhya)
ne y zabre
Good Afternoon
Good afternoon
Kia ora
Good Morning
शुभ प्रभात (subha prabhat)
Ne y yibeogo
Please
कृपया
gafare
Sorry
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
gafare
Bye
नमस्ते (namaste)
Wend na kon-d nindaare
I Love You
म तपाइलाइ माया गर्छु। (ma tapainlai maya garchu)
Kei te aroha au ki a koe
Excuse Me
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
Y gafare
Dialect 1
Doteli
Ouapadoupou
Where They Speak
Nepal
Burkina Faso
How Many People Speak
790,000.007,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Bajhangi
Saremde
Where They Speak
India, Nepal
Burkina Faso
How Many People Speak
17,000,000.007,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Baitadeli
Taolende
Where They Speak
Nepal
Burkina Faso
How Many People Speak
17,000,000.007,000,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
128
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
30.00 million7.60 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.25 %0.11 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
25.00 million7.60 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
5.00 million5.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
नेपाली (nēpālī)
Mosse
Alternative Names
Eastern Pahadi, Gorkhali, Gurkhali, Khaskura, Nepalese, Parbate
Mossi, Mòoré, Mooré, More, Moshi, Mole, Mosi, Mòoré, Moré, More, Moshi, Mole, Mosi
French Name
népalais
moré
German Name
Nepali
Mossi-Sprache
Pronunciation
[neˈpali]
[mɔ̀ːsì]
Ethnicity
Gurkha, Khas people, Madhesi and Tharu
Mossi
Origin
19 BC
11th Century AD
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Niger-Congo Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Western Sudanic
Branch
Indic
Gur (Voltaic)
Language Forms
Early Forms
Khas language, Gurkhali, Parbatiya, Dzongkha Lhotshammikha
No early forms
Standard Forms
Nepali
Mossi
Language Position
5937
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Nepali
Mossi Sign Language
Scope
Individual, Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 1
ne
No data Available
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
nep
mos
ISO 639 2/B
nep
mos
ISO 639 3
npi
mos
ISO 639 6
nep
mos
Glottocode
nepa1254
moss1236
Linguasphere
12
No data Available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
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Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
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