Countries
India, Nepal
Zimbabwe
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
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National Language
Nepal
Botswana, Mozambique, Zimbabwe
Second Language
Republic of Brazil
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Africa
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.
- Shona language is tonal language.
- The African people in Zimbabwe is made of 10 ethnic groups, each speaking a different languages, shona is spoken by 60 percent of population.
Similar To
Hindi
Kalanga and Nambya Language
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
4837
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
125
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3646
9
60
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Scripts
Devanagari
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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Hard to Learn
Language Levels
64
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks30 weeks
3
88
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Hello
नमस्ते (namaste)
Mhoro
Thank You
धन्यवाद (dhanyabad)
Waita zvako
How Are You?
तिमीलाई कस्तो छ? (timi lai kasto cha?)
Wakadini zvako?
Good Night
शुभ रात्री (subha ratri)
Urare zvakanaka
Good Evening
शुभ सन्ध्या (subha sandhya)
Manheru
Good Afternoon
Good afternoon
Masikati
Good Morning
शुभ प्रभात (subha prabhat)
Mangwanani
Please
कृपया
Ndinokumbirawo
Sorry
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
Ndineurombo
Bye
नमस्ते (namaste)
bye
I Love You
म तपाइलाइ माया गर्छु। (ma tapainlai maya garchu)
Ndinokuda
Excuse Me
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
Pamusoro
Dialect 1
Doteli
Hwesa
Where They Speak
Nepal
Zimbabwe
How Many People Speak
790,000.0011,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Bajhangi
Karanga
Where They Speak
India, Nepal
southern Zimbabwe
How Many People Speak
17,000,000.001,100,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Baitadeli
Zezuru
Where They Speak
Nepal
central Zimbabwe, Mashonaland
How Many People Speak
17,000,000.0016.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
124
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
30.00 million25.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.25 %0.13 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
25.00 million8.30 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
5.00 million16.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
नेपाली (nēpālī)
chiShona
Alternative Names
Eastern Pahadi, Gorkhali, Gurkhali, Khaskura, Nepalese, Parbate
Chishona, “Swina” (pej.), Zezuru
French Name
népalais
shona
German Name
Nepali
Schona-Sprache
Pronunciation
[neˈpali]
[ʃoːna]
Ethnicity
Gurkha, Khas people, Madhesi and Tharu
Shona people
Origin
19 BC
20th century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Niger-Congo Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Benue-Congo
Branch
Indic
Bantu
Language Forms
Early Forms
Khas language, Gurkhali, Parbatiya, Dzongkha Lhotshammikha
Old Shona and Middle Shona
Standard Forms
Nepali
Standard Shona
Language Position
59107
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Nepali
Signed Shona
Scope
Individual, Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 1
ne
sn
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
nep
sna
ISO 639 2/B
nep
sna
ISO 639 3
npi
sna
ISO 639 6
nep
sna
Glottocode
nepa1254
core1255
Linguasphere
12
99-AUT-a
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
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Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
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