Countries
India, Nepal
India
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
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National Language
Nepal
Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal
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.
- Santali language was an oral language till nineteenth century.
- Before the invention of Santali alphabets, Santali was written with the Bengali or Odia alphabets.
Similar To
Hindi
Munda Language
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
4830
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
126
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3621
9
60
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Scripts
Devanagari
Bengali, Devanagari, Latin, Ol Chiki, Oriya
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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Hello
नमस्ते (namaste)
Henda ho
Thank You
धन्यवाद (dhanyabad)
Adi Johar
How Are You?
तिमीलाई कस्तो छ? (timi lai kasto cha?)
Cet’leka menama?
Good Night
शुभ रात्री (subha ratri)
Boge Ninda
Good Evening
शुभ सन्ध्या (subha sandhya)
Boge Ayup’
Good Afternoon
Good afternoon
संध्यायान
Good Morning
शुभ प्रभात (subha prabhat)
Boge Setak’
Please
कृपया
দয়া করে
Sorry
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
দুঃখিত
Bye
नमस्ते (namaste)
Hariau
I Love You
म तपाइलाइ माया गर्छु। (ma tapainlai maya garchu)
ᱥᱟᱱᱛᱟᱲᱤ ᱯᱟᱹᱨᱥᱤ
Excuse Me
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
ᱥᱟᱱᱛᱟᱲ
Dialect 1
Doteli
Mahali
Where They Speak
Nepal
India
How Many People Speak
790,000.006,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Bajhangi
Not present
Where They Speak
India, Nepal
-
How Many People Speak
17,000,000.006,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Baitadeli
Not present
Where They Speak
Nepal
-
How Many People Speak
17,000,000.006,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
121
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
30.00 million6.30 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.25 %0.02 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
25.00 million6.30 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
5.00 million6.50 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
नेपाली (nēpālī)
संथाली (sãtʰālī)
Alternative Names
Eastern Pahadi, Gorkhali, Gurkhali, Khaskura, Nepalese, Parbate
Har, Hor, Samtali, Sandal, Sangtal, Santal, Santhali, Santhiali, Satar, Sentali, Sonthal
French Name
népalais
santal
German Name
Nepali
Santali
Pronunciation
[neˈpali]
[sɑnˈtɑli]
Ethnicity
Gurkha, Khas people, Madhesi and Tharu
Santal and Teraibasi Santali
Origin
19 BC
20th century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Austroasiatic Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
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Branch
Indic
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Language Forms
Early Forms
Khas language, Gurkhali, Parbatiya, Dzongkha Lhotshammikha
No early forms
Standard Forms
Nepali
Santali
Language Position
5941
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Nepali
Santali Sign Language
Scope
Individual, Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 1
ne
No data available
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
nep
sat
ISO 639 2/B
nep
sat
ISO 639 3
npi
sat
ISO 639 6
nep
sat
Glottocode
nepa1254
sant1410
Linguasphere
12
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
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