Countries
India, Nepal
Sri Lanka
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
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National Language
Nepal
Sri Lanka
Second Language
Republic of Brazil
Sri Lanka
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
People's Republic of China
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Language Academy of Nepal
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
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.
Similar To
Hindi
Maldivian Language
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
4854
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
1218
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3636
9
60
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Scripts
Devanagari
Sinhala alphabet
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
62
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
नमस्ते (namaste)
හලෝ (halō)
Thank You
धन्यवाद (dhanyabad)
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
How Are You?
तिमीलाई कस्तो छ? (timi lai kasto cha?)
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
Good Night
शुभ रात्री (subha ratri)
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
Good Evening
शुभ सन्ध्या (subha sandhya)
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
Good Afternoon
Good afternoon
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
Good Morning
शुभ प्रभात (subha prabhat)
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
Please
कृपया
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
Sorry
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
Bye
नमस्ते (namaste)
බායි (bāyi)
I Love You
म तपाइलाइ माया गर्छु। (ma tapainlai maya garchu)
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
Excuse Me
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
Dialect 1
Doteli
Vedda
Where They Speak
Nepal
Sri Lanka
How Many People Speak
790,000.0019,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Bajhangi
Sri Lankan Sinhala
Where They Speak
India, Nepal
-
How Many People Speak
17,000,000.0019,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Baitadeli
Up-Country Sinhalese
Where They Speak
Nepal
-
How Many People Speak
17,000,000.0016,000,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
121
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
30.00 million16.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.25 %0.25 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
25.00 million16.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
5.00 million2.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
नेपाली (nēpālī)
සිංහල (sĩhala)
Alternative Names
Eastern Pahadi, Gorkhali, Gurkhali, Khaskura, Nepalese, Parbate
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
French Name
népalais
singhalais
German Name
Nepali
Singhalesisch
Pronunciation
[neˈpali]
[ˈsiŋhəliːz]
Ethnicity
Gurkha, Khas people, Madhesi and Tharu
Sinhalese people
Origin
19 BC
3
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
Sinhalese Prakrit
Standard Forms
Nepali
Modern Sinhalese
Language Position
5970
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Nepali
Signed Sinhalese
Scope
Individual, Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 1
ne
si
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
nep
sin
ISO 639 2/B
nep
sin
ISO 639 3
npi
sin
ISO 639 6
nep
sin
Glottocode
nepa1254
sinh1246
Linguasphere
12
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Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
Fusional