Countries
India, Nepal
Afganistan, Iran, Tajikistan
Total No. Of Countries
23
0
46
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National Language
Nepal
Afganistan, Azerbaijan, Iran, Iraq, Russia, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan
Second Language
Republic of Brazil
Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
People's Republic of China
Bahrain, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates
Regulated By
Language Academy of Nepal
Academy of Persian Language and Literature (فرهنگستان زبان و اد, Academy of Sciences of Afghanistan
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.
- In Iran, Parsi language is known as Farsi, while in Afghanistan Persian language is known as Dari.
- Persian language has borrowed many loanwords from the Arabic language.
Similar To
Hindi
Pashto and Balochi Languages
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
Arabic Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
4832
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
126
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3623
9
60
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Scripts
Devanagari
Arabic
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
66
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
नमस्ते (namaste)
سلام
Thank You
धन्यवाद (dhanyabad)
متشکرم
How Are You?
तिमीलाई कस्तो छ? (timi lai kasto cha?)
چطور هستید?
Good Night
शुभ रात्री (subha ratri)
شب بخیر
Good Evening
शुभ सन्ध्या (subha sandhya)
عصر بخیر
Good Afternoon
Good afternoon
بعد از ظهر بخیر
Good Morning
शुभ प्रभात (subha prabhat)
صبح به خیر
Please
कृपया
لطفا
Sorry
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
متاسف
Bye
नमस्ते (namaste)
خدا حافظ
I Love You
म तपाइलाइ माया गर्छु। (ma tapainlai maya garchu)
من شما را دوست دارم
Excuse Me
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
ببخشيد!
Dialect 1
Doteli
Western Persian
Where They Speak
Nepal
Iran, Iraq
How Many People Speak
790,000.0047,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Bajhangi
Dari Persian
Where They Speak
India, Nepal
Afganistan
How Many People Speak
17,000,000.0012,500,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Baitadeli
Tajik Persian
Where They Speak
Nepal
Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan
How Many People Speak
17,000,000.007,900,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
1212
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
30.00 million65.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.25 %0.99 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
25.00 million65.00 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
5.00 million110.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
नेपाली (nēpālī)
فارسی
Alternative Names
Eastern Pahadi, Gorkhali, Gurkhali, Khaskura, Nepalese, Parbate
New Persian, Parsi, Persian, West Persian
French Name
népalais
persan
German Name
Nepali
Persisch
Pronunciation
[neˈpali]
[fɒːɾˈsiː]
Ethnicity
Gurkha, Khas people, Madhesi and Tharu
Persian people
Origin
19 BC
1500 BC
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Indo-Iranian
Branch
Indic
Iranian
Language Forms
Early Forms
Khas language, Gurkhali, Parbatiya, Dzongkha Lhotshammikha
Old Persian and Middle Persian
Standard Forms
Nepali
Persian
Language Position
5923
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Nepali
Persian Sign Language
Scope
Individual, Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 1
ne
fa
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
nep
fas
ISO 639 2/B
nep
per
ISO 639 3
npi
pes
ISO 639 6
nep
pers
Glottocode
nepa1254
fars1254
Linguasphere
12
58-AAC-c
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
Synthetic