Countries
India, Nepal
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
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 in
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Scripts
Devanagari
Cyrillic
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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)
Dialect 1
Doteli
Doukhobor Russian
Where They Speak
Nepal
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
Dialect 2
Bajhangi
Olonets
Where They Speak
India, Nepal
Olonets
Dialect 3
Baitadeli
Novgorod
Where They Speak
Nepal
Novgorod
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
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Slavic
Early Forms
Khas language, Gurkhali, Parbatiya, Dzongkha Lhotshammikha
Old East Slavic
Standard Forms
Nepali
Standard Russian
Signed Forms
Signed Nepali
Signed Russian
Scope
Individual, Macrolanguage
Individual
Glottocode
nepa1254
russ1263
Linguasphere
12
53-AAA-ea
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
Fusional, Synthetic
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.