Countries
India, Nepal
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Serbia, Slovakia
Total No. Of Countries
24
0
46
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National Language
Nepal
Bosnia, Croatia, Montenegro, Serbia
Second Language
Republic of Brazil
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Europe
Minority Language
People's Republic of China
Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Macedonia, Montenegro, Romania, Slovakia
Regulated By
Language Academy of Nepal
Board for Standardization of the Serbian Language
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.
- Serbian language was derived from the Old Church Salvic, as the language was commonly spoken by most of Slavic people in the 9th Century.
- Serbian language is based on Stokavian dialect.
Similar To
Hindi
Bosnian and Croatian Languages
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
4830
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
125
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3625
9
60
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Scripts
Devanagari
Cyrillic, Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
65
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
नमस्ते (namaste)
Здраво (Zdravo)
Thank You
धन्यवाद (dhanyabad)
Хвала лепо (Hvala lepo)
How Are You?
तिमीलाई कस्तो छ? (timi lai kasto cha?)
Како си? (Kako si?)
Good Night
शुभ रात्री (subha ratri)
Лаку ноћ (Laku noć)
Good Evening
शुभ सन्ध्या (subha sandhya)
Добро вече (Dobro veče)
Good Afternoon
Good afternoon
Добар дан (Dobar dan)
Good Morning
शुभ प्रभात (subha prabhat)
Добро јутро (Dobro jutro)
Please
कृपया
Молим (Molim)
Sorry
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
Жао ми је (Žao mi je)
Bye
नमस्ते (namaste)
Довиђења (Doviđenja)
I Love You
म तपाइलाइ माया गर्छु। (ma tapainlai maya garchu)
Волим те (Volim te)
Excuse Me
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
Извините (Izvinite)
Dialect 1
Doteli
Prizren-Timok
Where They Speak
Nepal
Southeastern Serbia
How Many People Speak
790,000.0012,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Bajhangi
Smederevo–Vršac
Where They Speak
India, Nepal
Serbia
How Many People Speak
17,000,000.0012,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Baitadeli
Torlakian
Where They Speak
Nepal
Bulgaria, France, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia
How Many People Speak
17,000,000.001,500,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
123
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
30.00 million8.70 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.25 %0.13 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
25.00 million8.70 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
5.00 million12.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
नेपाली (nēpālī)
српски (srpski) српски језик (srpski jezik)
Alternative Names
Eastern Pahadi, Gorkhali, Gurkhali, Khaskura, Nepalese, Parbate
Montenegrin
French Name
népalais
serbe
German Name
Nepali
Serbisch
Pronunciation
[neˈpali]
[sr̩̂pskiː]
Ethnicity
Gurkha, Khas people, Madhesi and Tharu
Serbs
Origin
19 BC
11th Century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
-
Branch
Indic
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Khas language, Gurkhali, Parbatiya, Dzongkha Lhotshammikha
No early forms
Standard Forms
Nepali
Standard Serbian
Language Position
5944
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Nepali
Srpski Znakovni Jezik (SZJ)
Scope
Individual, Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 1
ne
sr
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
nep
srp
ISO 639 2/B
nep
srp
ISO 639 3
npi
srp
ISO 639 6
nep
srp
Glottocode
nepa1254
serb1264
Linguasphere
12
53-AAA-g
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
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