Countries
India, Nepal
Norway
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
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National Language
Nepal
Norway
Second Language
Republic of Brazil
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Europe, South America
Minority Language
People's Republic of China
Nynorsk
Regulated By
Language Academy of Nepal
Norwegian Language Council
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.
- Bergen is one of the Norwegian dialect which has only two genders: common and neuter.
- Since Norwegian language uses pitch accents, it has musical quality and are sometimes employed to distinguish the meanings of homonyms.
Similar To
Hindi
Swedish and Danish Languages
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
4829
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
129
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3620
9
60
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Scripts
Devanagari
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
64
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks24 weeks
3
88
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Hello
नमस्ते (namaste)
hallo
Thank You
धन्यवाद (dhanyabad)
takk
How Are You?
तिमीलाई कस्तो छ? (timi lai kasto cha?)
hvordan har du det?
Good Night
शुभ रात्री (subha ratri)
god natt
Good Evening
शुभ सन्ध्या (subha sandhya)
god kveld
Good Afternoon
Good afternoon
god ettermiddag
Good Morning
शुभ प्रभात (subha prabhat)
god morgen
Please
कृपया
Vær så snill
Sorry
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
unnskyld
Bye
नमस्ते (namaste)
ha det
I Love You
म तपाइलाइ माया गर्छु। (ma tapainlai maya garchu)
Jeg Elsker Deg
Excuse Me
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
unnskyld meg
Dialect 1
Doteli
Jamtlandic
Where They Speak
Nepal
Jamtland,Harjedalen
How Many People Speak
790,000.0030,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Bajhangi
Sognamål
Where They Speak
India, Nepal
Sogn
How Many People Speak
17,000,000.005,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Baitadeli
Hallingmål-Valdris
Where They Speak
Nepal
Hallingdal, Valdres
How Many People Speak
17,000,000.005,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
1219
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
30.00 million5.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.25 %0.07 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
25.00 million5.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
5.00 million5.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
नेपाली (nēpālī)
Norsk
Alternative Names
Eastern Pahadi, Gorkhali, Gurkhali, Khaskura, Nepalese, Parbate
Norsk
French Name
népalais
norvégien nynorsk; nynorsk, norvégien
German Name
Nepali
Nynorsk
Pronunciation
[neˈpali]
[nɔʂk] (Eastern Norwegian)
[nɔʁsk] (Western Norwegian)
Ethnicity
Gurkha, Khas people, Madhesi and Tharu
Norwegians
Origin
19 BC
c. 1300 AD
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Germanic
Branch
Indic
Northern (Scandinavian)
Language Forms
Early Forms
Khas language, Gurkhali, Parbatiya, Dzongkha Lhotshammikha
Old Norse language, Old Norwegian, Middle Norwegian, Modern Norwegian
Standard Forms
Nepali
Nynorsk, Bokmål
Language Position
5918
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Nepali
Signed Norwegian
Scope
Individual, Macrolanguage
Macrolanguage
ISO 639 1
ne
no
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
nep
nor
ISO 639 2/B
nep
nor
ISO 639 3
npi
nor
ISO 639 6
nep
nor
Glottocode
nepa1254
norw1258
Linguasphere
12
52-AAA-ba to -be; 52-AAA-cf to -cg
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
Fusional