Countries
India, Nepal
Ethiopia, Kenya
Total No. Of Countries
22
0
46
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National Language
Nepal
Ethiopia
Second Language
Republic of Brazil
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Africa
Minority Language
People's Republic of China
Somalia
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.
- Oromo language is the third most spoken language in Africa.
- Oromo is most spoken language in Cushitic Family.
Similar To
Hindi
Somali Language
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
4834
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
1210
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3624
9
60
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Scripts
Devanagari
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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Hard to Learn
Language Levels
65
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
नमस्ते (namaste)
akkam
Thank You
धन्यवाद (dhanyabad)
Galatoomi
How Are You?
तिमीलाई कस्तो छ? (timi lai kasto cha?)
Attam jirta/jirtu?
Good Night
शुभ रात्री (subha ratri)
Nagayattii buli
Good Evening
शुभ सन्ध्या (subha sandhya)
Akkam waarite
Good Afternoon
Good afternoon
Attam oolte / ooltan
Good Morning
शुभ प्रभात (subha prabhat)
Attam bulte/bultan
Please
कृपया
Maaloo
Sorry
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
naa dhiisi
Bye
नमस्ते (namaste)
Nagayattii!
I Love You
म तपाइलाइ माया गर्छु। (ma tapainlai maya garchu)
Sin jaaladha
Excuse Me
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
Maaloo na dabarsi
Dialect 1
Doteli
Borana
Where They Speak
Nepal
Ethiopia, Kenya
How Many People Speak
790,000.004,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Bajhangi
Orma
Where They Speak
India, Nepal
Kenya
How Many People Speak
17,000,000.0066,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Baitadeli
Wata
Where They Speak
Nepal
Kenya
How Many People Speak
17,000,000.0013,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
1217
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
30.00 million25.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.25 %0.36 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
25.00 million24.00 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
5.00 million35.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
नेपाली (nēpālī)
Afaan Oromo
Alternative Names
Eastern Pahadi, Gorkhali, Gurkhali, Khaskura, Nepalese, Parbate
Afaan Oromoo
French Name
népalais
galla
German Name
Nepali
Galla-Sprache
Pronunciation
[neˈpali]
[ɔrɔmɔ]
Ethnicity
Gurkha, Khas people, Madhesi and Tharu
Oromos
Origin
19 BC
16
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Cushitic
Branch
Indic
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Language Forms
Early Forms
Khas language, Gurkhali, Parbatiya, Dzongkha Lhotshammikha
No early forms
Standard Forms
Nepali
Afaan Oromo
Language Position
5991
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Nepali
Oromo Sign Language
Scope
Individual, Macrolanguage
Macrolanguage
ISO 639 1
ne
om
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
nep
orm
ISO 639 2/B
nep
orm
ISO 639 3
npi
orm
ISO 639 6
nep
orm
Glottocode
nepa1254
nucl1736
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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