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.
- Sanskrit language has highest number of vocabularies than any other language.
- Sanskrit Language has proved to help in speech therapy, also it increases concentration and helps to learn maths and science better.
Similar To
Hindi
Old German Language
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
Prakrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
4852
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
1216
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3636
9
60
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Scripts
Devanagari
Devanagari
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 weeks20 weeks
3
88
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Hello
नमस्ते (namaste)
नमस्कारः (namaskāraḥ)
Thank You
धन्यवाद (dhanyabad)
धन्यवादाः (dhanyawādāh)
How Are You?
तिमीलाई कस्तो छ? (timi lai kasto cha?)
कथमस्ति भवान् (kathamasti bhawān)
Good Night
शुभ रात्री (subha ratri)
शुभरात्री (shubharātrī)
Good Evening
शुभ सन्ध्या (subha sandhya)
शुभः सायंकालः
Good Afternoon
Good afternoon
शुभ दुपार
Good Morning
शुभ प्रभात (subha prabhat)
सुप्रभातम् (suprabhātam)
Please
कृपया
कृपया (kripayā)
Sorry
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
कृपया क्षम्यताम् (kripayā kshamyatām)
Bye
नमस्ते (namaste)
पुनः मिलामः(punah milamah)
I Love You
म तपाइलाइ माया गर्छु। (ma tapainlai maya garchu)
त्वामनुरजामि (twāmanurajāmi)
Excuse Me
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
कृपया क्षम्यताम् (kripayā kshamyatām)
Dialect 1
Doteli
Not present
Where They Speak
Nepal
-
How Many People Speak
790,000.00140,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Bajhangi
Not present
Where They Speak
India, Nepal
-
How Many People Speak
17,000,000.00140,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Baitadeli
Not present
Where They Speak
Nepal
-
How Many People Speak
17,000,000.00140,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
120
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
30.00 million14.10 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.25 %0.01 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
25.00 million14.10 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
5.00 million-
0.01
400
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Native Name
नेपाली (nēpālī)
संस्कृतम् (saṃskṛtam)
Alternative Names
Eastern Pahadi, Gorkhali, Gurkhali, Khaskura, Nepalese, Parbate
Saṃskṛtam, Sanskritam
French Name
népalais
sanskrit
German Name
Nepali
Sanskrit
Pronunciation
[neˈpali]
[səmskr̩t̪əm]
Ethnicity
Gurkha, Khas people, Madhesi and Tharu
Sanskrit speakers
Origin
19 BC
2000 B.C.
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
Vedic Sanskrit
Standard Forms
Nepali
Sanskrit
Language Position
5923
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Nepali
-
Scope
Individual, Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 1
ne
sa
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
nep
san
ISO 639 2/B
nep
san
ISO 639 3
npi
san
ISO 639 6
nep
san
Glottocode
nepa1254
sans1269
Linguasphere
12
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Ancient
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
Synthetic