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Countries

Countries

India, Nepal
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan

Total No. Of Countries

24
0 46
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National Language

Nepal
Russia

Second Language

Republic of Brazil
Afganistan

Speaking Continents

Asia
Asia, Europe

Minority Language

People's Republic of China
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, Poland, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan

Regulated By

Language Academy of Nepal
Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences

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 Russian language, the words are not pronounced as they are written.
  • In Russian language, there are only 200,000 words out of which only few words are used and due to this many words have more than one meaning.

Similar To

Hindi
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages

Derived From

Sanskrit Language
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

4833
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

1210
0 32
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How Many Consonants

3621
9 60
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Scripts

Devanagari
Cyrillic

Writing Direction

Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, 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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Greetings

Hello

नमस्ते (namaste)
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)

Thank You

धन्यवाद (dhanyabad)
спасибо(spasibo)

How Are You?

तिमीलाई कस्तो छ? (timi lai kasto cha?)
Как дела? (Kak dela?)

Good Night

शुभ रात्री (subha ratri)
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)

Good Evening

शुभ सन्ध्या (subha sandhya)
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)

Good Afternoon

Good afternoon
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')

Good Morning

शुभ प्रभात (subha prabhat)
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)

Please

कृपया
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)

Sorry

माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
Извините(Izvinite)

Bye

नमस्ते (namaste)
до свидания(do svidaniya)

I Love You

म तपाइलाइ माया गर्छु। (ma tapainlai maya garchu)
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)

Excuse Me

माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
извините(izvinite)

Dialects

Dialect 1

Doteli
Doukhobor Russian

Where They Speak

Nepal
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan

How Many People Speak

790,000.0030,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Bajhangi
Olonets

Where They Speak

India, Nepal
Olonets

How Many People Speak

17,000,000.00154,000,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Baitadeli
Novgorod

Where They Speak

Nepal
Novgorod

How Many People Speak

17,000,000.00154,000,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

1213
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

30.00 million276.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.25 %2.33 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

25.00 million166.00 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)
Русский

Alternative Names

Eastern Pahadi, Gorkhali, Gurkhali, Khaskura, Nepalese, Parbate
Russki

French Name

népalais
russe

German Name

Nepali
Russisch

Pronunciation

[neˈpali]
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]

Ethnicity

Gurkha, Khas people, Madhesi and Tharu
Russians

History

Origin

19 BC
1000 AD

Language Family

Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family

Subgroup

Indo-Iranian
Slavic

Branch

Indic
Eastern

Language Forms

Early Forms

Khas language, Gurkhali, Parbatiya, Dzongkha Lhotshammikha
Old East Slavic

Standard Forms

Nepali
Standard Russian

Language Position

597
1 120
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Signed Forms

Signed Nepali
Signed Russian

Scope

Individual, Macrolanguage
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

ne
ru

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

nep
rus

ISO 639 2/B

nep
rus

ISO 639 3

npi
rus

ISO 639 6

nep
rus

Glottocode

nepa1254
russ1263

Linguasphere

12
53-AAA-ea

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object

Language Morphological Typology

Agglutinative
Fusional, Synthetic

Nepali and Russian Alphabets

Nepali and Russian Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Nepali and Russian. In Nepali Alphabets there are 48 letters while in Russian Alphabets there are 33 letters. To learn Nepali and Russian languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Nepali and Russian languages. The Nepali phonology consist Nepali vowels and Nepali consonants. After alphabets, words are to be learned and after words, phrases in that language. Take a look at Nepali greetings vs Russian greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Nepali and Russian are Most Spoken Languages.

All Nepali and Russian Dialects

Most languages have dialects where each dialect differ from other dialect with respect to grammar and vocabulary. Here you will get to know all Nepali and Russian dialects. Various dialects of Nepali and Russian language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Nepali are spoken in different Nepali Speaking Countries whereas Russian Dialects are spoken in different Russian speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Nepali vs Russian Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Nepali dialects include: Doteli, Bajhangi. Russian dialects include: Doukhobor Russian , Olonets. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

Nepali and Russian Speaking population

Nepali and Russian speaking population is one of the factors based on which Nepali and Russian languages can be compared. The total count of Nepali and Russian Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Nepali language is 0.25 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Russian language is 2.33 %. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak Nepali and Russian on Nepali vs Russian where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Nepali and Russian Language Codes

Nepali and Russian language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Nepali and Russian Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.