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1 Countries
1.1 Countries
India, Nepal
Sri Lanka
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
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2
Rank: 13 (Overall)
1
Rank: 14 (Overall)
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1.3 National Language
Nepal
Sri Lanka
1.4 Second Language
Republic of Brazil
Sri Lanka
1.5 Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
1.6 Minority Language
People's Republic of China
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.7 Regulated By
Language Academy of Nepal
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
1.8 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.
  • In Sinhalese language, there are many loanwords from Dravidian languages mainly Tamil, Portuguese, Dutch and English.
  • Sinhalese language has it own script/ writing system.
1.9 Similar To
Hindi
Maldivian Language
1.10 Derived From
Sanskrit Language
Sanskrit Language
2 Alphabets
2.1 Alphabets in
2.2 Alphabets
About Tamil Lan..
48
Rank: 28 (Overall)
54
Rank: 33 (Overall)
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2.3 Phonology
2.3.1 How Many Vowels
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12
Rank: 9 (Overall)
18
Rank: 15 (Overall)
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2.3.2 How Many Consonants
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36
Rank: 26 (Overall)
36
Rank: 26 (Overall)
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2.4 Scripts
Devanagari
Sinhala alphabet
2.5 Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
2.6 Hard to Learn
2.6.1 Language Levels
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6
Rank: 5 (Overall)
2
Rank: 1 (Overall)
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2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
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44 weeks
Rank: 11 (Overall)
44 weeks
Rank: 11 (Overall)
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3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
नमस्ते (namaste)
හලෝ (halō)
3.2 Thank You
धन्यवाद (dhanyabad)
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
3.3 How Are You?
तिमीलाई कस्तो छ? (timi lai kasto cha?)
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
3.4 Good Night
शुभ रात्री (subha ratri)
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
3.5 Good Evening
शुभ सन्ध्या (subha sandhya)
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
3.6 Good Afternoon
Good afternoon
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
3.7 Good Morning
शुभ प्रभात (subha prabhat)
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
3.8 Please
कृपया
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
3.9 Sorry
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
3.10 Bye
नमस्ते (namaste)
බායි (bāyi)
3.11 I Love You
म तपाइलाइ माया गर्छु। (ma tapainlai maya garchu)
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
3.12 Excuse Me
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Doteli
Vedda
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Nepal
Sri Lanka
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
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790,000.00
Rank: 30 (Overall)
Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall)
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4.2 Dialect 2
Bajhangi
Not Available
4.2.1 Where They Speak
India, Nepal
Not Available
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
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Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall)
Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall)
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4.3 Dialect 3
Baitadeli
Not Available
4.3.1 Where They Speak
Nepal
Not Available
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
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Rank: N/A (Overall)
Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall)
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4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
About English L..
12
Rank: 12 (Overall)
1
Rank: 1 (Overall)
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5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
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30.00 million
Rank: 36 (Overall)
16.00 million
Rank: 45 (Overall)
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5.2 Speaking Population
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0.25 %
Rank: 41 (Overall)
0.25 %
Rank: 41 (Overall)
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5.3 Native Speakers
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25.00 million
Rank: 32 (Overall)
16.00 million
Rank: 39 (Overall)
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5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
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5.00 million
Rank: 29 (Overall)
2.00 million
Rank: 34 (Overall)
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5.3.2 Native Name
नेपाली (nēpālī)
සිංහල (sĩhala)
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Eastern Pahadi, Gorkhali, Gurkhali, Khaskura, Nepalese, Parbate
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
5.3.4 French Name
népalais
singhalais
5.3.5 German Name
Nepali
Singhalesisch
5.4 Pronunciation
Not Available
Not Available
5.5 Ethnicity
Gurkha, Khas people, Madhesi and Tharu
Sinhalese people
6 History
6.1 Origin
19 BC
3
6.2 Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Indo-Iranian
6.2.2 Branch
Indic
Indic
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
Khas language, Gurkhali, Parbatiya, Dzongkha Lhotshammikha
Sinhalese Prakrit
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Nepali
Modern Sinhalese
6.3.3 Language Position
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Rank: 44 (Overall)
70
Rank: 49 (Overall)
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6.3.4 Signed Forms
Signed Nepali
Not Available
6.4 Scope
Individual, Macrolanguage
Individual
7 Code
7.1 ISO 639 1
ne
si
7.2 ISO 639 2
7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
nep
sin
7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
nep
sin
7.3 ISO 639 3
npi
sin
7.4 ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
7.5 Glottocode
nepa1254
sinh1246
7.6 Linguasphere
12
No data available
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
Living
Living
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Object-Verb
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
Fusional

Nepali and Sinhalese Alphabets

Nepali and Sinhalese Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Nepali and Sinhalese. In Nepali Alphabets there are 48 letters while in Sinhalese Alphabets there are 54 letters. To learn Nepali and Sinhalese languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Nepali and Sinhalese 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 Sinhalese greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Nepali and Sinhalese are Most Spoken Languages.

All Nepali and Sinhalese 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 Sinhalese dialects. Various dialects of Nepali and Sinhalese language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Nepali are spoken in different Nepali Speaking Countries whereas Sinhalese Dialects are spoken in different Sinhalese speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Nepali vs Sinhalese Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Nepali dialects include: Doteli, Bajhangi. Sinhalese dialects include: Vedda , Not Available. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

Nepali and Sinhalese Speaking population

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

Nepali and Sinhalese Language Codes

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

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