Countries
India, Nepal
India
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
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National Language
Nepal
India
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.
- The earliest literature in Oriya was traced in 7th to 9th centuries.
- Since Odia is having a long literary history and has not borrowed largely from other languages, it is the 6th classical language in India.
Similar To
Hindi
Bengali and Assamese
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
4842
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
1211
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3631
9
60
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Scripts
Devanagari
Bengali, Odia alphabet (Brahmic)
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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)
ନମସ୍କାର (namascara)
Thank You
धन्यवाद (dhanyabad)
ଧନ୍ୟବାଦ୍ (dhanyabaad)
How Are You?
तिमीलाई कस्तो छ? (timi lai kasto cha?)
କେମିତି ଅତ୍ଚନ୍ଥି? (kemiti achanti?)
Good Night
शुभ रात्री (subha ratri)
ସୁଭରାତ୍ର (shubharaatra)
Good Evening
शुभ सन्ध्या (subha sandhya)
ସୁଭସନ୍ଧ୍ୟା (subha sandhya)
Good Afternoon
Good afternoon
ସୁଭ ଖରା ବେଳ (shubha kharaa bela)
Good Morning
शुभ प्रभात (subha prabhat)
ସୁପ୍ରଭାତ (suprabhaata)
Please
कृपया
ଦୟାକରି
Sorry
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
ମୁଁ ଦୁଃଖିତ (mū duḥkhita)
Bye
नमस्ते (namaste)
ସୁବିଦାୟ (shubidaaya)
I Love You
म तपाइलाइ माया गर्छु। (ma tapainlai maya garchu)
ମୁଁ ତୁମକୁ ଭଲ ପାଏ (mu tumoku bhala paye)
Excuse Me
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
କ୍ଷମା କରିବେ (kyamā karibe)
Dialect 1
Doteli
Baleswari
Where They Speak
Nepal
India
How Many People Speak
790,000.0033,800,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Bajhangi
Ganjami
Where They Speak
India, Nepal
India
How Many People Speak
17,000,000.0033,800,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Baitadeli
Kosli
Where They Speak
Nepal
India
How Many People Speak
17,000,000.00520,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
128
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
30.00 million33.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.25 %0.50 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
25.00 million33.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
5.00 million35.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
नेपाली (nēpālī)
ଓଡ଼ିଆ (ōṛiyā)
Alternative Names
Eastern Pahadi, Gorkhali, Gurkhali, Khaskura, Nepalese, Parbate
Odisha, Odri, Odrum, Oliya, Uriya, Utkali, Vadiya, Yudhia
French Name
népalais
oriya
German Name
Nepali
Oriya-Sprache
Pronunciation
[neˈpali]
[ˈoɽia]
Ethnicity
Gurkha, Khas people, Madhesi and Tharu
Odias
Origin
19 BC
3 BC
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Indo-Iranian
Branch
Indic
Indic
Language Forms
Early Forms
Khas language, Gurkhali, Parbatiya, Dzongkha Lhotshammikha
No early forms
Standard Forms
Nepali
Standard Odia
Language Position
5932
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Nepali
Indian Signing System
Scope
Individual, Macrolanguage
Individual, Macrolanguage
ISO 639 1
ne
or
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
nep
ori
ISO 639 2/B
nep
ori
ISO 639 3
npi
ori
ISO 639 6
nep
ori
Glottocode
nepa1254
macr1269
Linguasphere
12
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
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