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Nepali
Nepali

Sanskrit
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Countries

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

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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Greetings

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)

Dialects

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
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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
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How Many People Speak

17,000,000.00140,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

120
0 188
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How Many People Speak

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
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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

History

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
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Scope

Individual, Macrolanguage
Individual

Code

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

Nepali and Sanskrit Alphabets

Nepali and Sanskrit Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Nepali and Sanskrit. In Nepali Alphabets there are 48 letters while in Sanskrit Alphabets there are 52 letters. To learn Nepali and Sanskrit languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Nepali and Sanskrit 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 Sanskrit greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Nepali and Sanskrit are Most Spoken Languages.

All Nepali and Sanskrit 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 Sanskrit dialects. Various dialects of Nepali and Sanskrit language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Nepali are spoken in different Nepali Speaking Countries whereas Sanskrit Dialects are spoken in different Sanskrit speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Nepali vs Sanskrit Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Nepali dialects include: Doteli, Bajhangi. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

Nepali and Sanskrit Speaking population

Nepali and Sanskrit speaking population is one of the factors based on which Nepali and Sanskrit languages can be compared. The total count of Nepali and Sanskrit Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Nepali language is 0.25 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Sanskrit language is 0.01 %. 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 Sanskrit on Nepali vs Sanskrit where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Nepali and Sanskrit Language Codes

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