Countries
India, Nepal
India, Pakistan
Total No. Of Countries
22
0
46
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National Language
Nepal
India, Pakistan, Sindh
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
National Council For Promotion Of Sindhi Language, Sindhi Language Authority
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.
- The first writings of Sindhi language were found in 8th century CE.
- In Sindhi language, every woord ends in a vowel.
Similar To
Hindi
Gujarati
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
Prakrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
4864
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
1210
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3642
9
60
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Scripts
Devanagari
Arabic, Devanagari
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Right-To-Left, 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)
Assalam O Alaikum
Thank You
धन्यवाद (dhanyabad)
Meharbani
How Are You?
तिमीलाई कस्तो छ? (timi lai kasto cha?)
Kehra haal aahin
Good Night
शुभ रात्री (subha ratri)
tava kia aayo
Good Evening
शुभ सन्ध्या (subha sandhya)
Sham Jo Salam
Good Afternoon
Good afternoon
Assalam o Alaikum
Good Morning
शुभ प्रभात (subha prabhat)
Subho Bakhair
Please
कृपया
Mehrbani
Sorry
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
Moon khe afsos aahe
Bye
नमस्ते (namaste)
Allah Wahi
I Love You
म तपाइलाइ माया गर्छु। (ma tapainlai maya garchu)
Man tokhe prem karyan ti
Excuse Me
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
Maaf Kajo
Dialect 1
Doteli
Siraiki
Where They Speak
Nepal
Upper Sindh
How Many People Speak
790,000.0025,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Bajhangi
Vicholi
Where They Speak
India, Nepal
Central Sindh
How Many People Speak
17,000,000.0025,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Baitadeli
Lari
Where They Speak
Nepal
Lower Sindh
How Many People Speak
17,000,000.0025.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
126
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
30.00 million29.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.25 %0.39 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
25.00 million25.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
5.00 million25.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
नेपाली (nēpālī)
سنڌي
Alternative Names
Eastern Pahadi, Gorkhali, Gurkhali, Khaskura, Nepalese, Parbate
Sindhi
French Name
népalais
sindhi
German Name
Nepali
Sindhi-Sprache
Pronunciation
[neˈpali]
[sɪndi]
Ethnicity
Gurkha, Khas people, Madhesi and Tharu
Sindhi people
Origin
19 BC
711 A.D
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
Old Sindhi and Middle Sindhi
Standard Forms
Nepali
Sindhi
Language Position
5950
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Nepali
Signed Sindhi
Scope
Individual, Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 1
ne
sd
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
nep
snd
ISO 639 2/B
nep
snd
ISO 639 3
npi
snd
ISO 639 6
nep
snd
Glottocode
nepa1254
sind1272
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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