Countries
India, Nepal
European Union, Finland, Nordic Council, Sweden
Total No. Of Countries
24
0
46
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National Language
Nepal
Sweden
Second Language
Republic of Brazil
Finland
Speaking Continents
Asia
Antartica, Europe
Minority Language
People's Republic of China
Australia, Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, Netherlands, Spain, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States of America
Regulated By
Language Academy of Nepal
Institute for the Languages of Finland, Swedish Academy, Swedish Language Council
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 Swedish language, article comes after noun.
- Most of the words in Swedish language began "S" than any other letter.
Similar To
Hindi
Norwegian and Danish Language
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
Old Norse Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
4829
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
129
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3618
9
60
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Scripts
Devanagari
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
66
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks24 weeks
3
88
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Hello
नमस्ते (namaste)
hej
Thank You
धन्यवाद (dhanyabad)
tacka dig
How Are You?
तिमीलाई कस्तो छ? (timi lai kasto cha?)
hur mår du
Good Night
शुभ रात्री (subha ratri)
godnatt
Good Evening
शुभ सन्ध्या (subha sandhya)
god kväll
Good Afternoon
Good afternoon
god eftermiddag
Good Morning
शुभ प्रभात (subha prabhat)
god morgon
Please
कृपया
vänligen
Sorry
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
ledsen
Bye
नमस्ते (namaste)
hej då
I Love You
म तपाइलाइ माया गर्छु। (ma tapainlai maya garchu)
jag älskar dig
Excuse Me
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
ursäkta mig
Dialect 1
Doteli
Dialects
Where They Speak
Nepal
Gabon
How Many People Speak
790,000.0078,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Bajhangi
Dialects
Where They Speak
India, Nepal
Georgia
How Many People Speak
17,000,000.0078,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Baitadeli
Dialects
Where They Speak
Nepal
France
How Many People Speak
17,000,000.0096,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
1279
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
30.00 million15.00 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 million5.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
नेपाली (nēpālī)
Svenska
Alternative Names
Eastern Pahadi, Gorkhali, Gurkhali, Khaskura, Nepalese, Parbate
Ruotsi, Svenska
French Name
népalais
suédois
German Name
Nepali
Schwedisch
Pronunciation
[neˈpali]
[ˈsvɛ̂nskâ]
Ethnicity
Gurkha, Khas people, Madhesi and Tharu
Swedes, Finland Swedes
Origin
19 BC
13th Century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Germanic
Branch
Indic
Northern (Scandinavian)
Language Forms
Early Forms
Khas language, Gurkhali, Parbatiya, Dzongkha Lhotshammikha
Old Swedish
Standard Forms
Nepali
Standard Swedish
Language Position
5989
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Nepali
Tecknad svenska, ("Signed Swedish")
Scope
Individual, Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 1
ne
sv
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
nep
swe
ISO 639 2/B
nep
swe
ISO 639 3
npi
swe
ISO 639 6
nep
swe
Glottocode
nepa1254
swed1254
Linguasphere
12
52-AAA-ck to -cw
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
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