Countries
India, Nepal
Philippines
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
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National Language
Nepal
Philippines
Second Language
Republic of Brazil
Filipinos
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia, Australia
Minority Language
People's Republic of China
Australia, Canada, Guam, Hong Kong, New Zealand, Singapore, United Kingdom
Regulated By
Language Academy of Nepal
Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino, National Languages Committee
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 1593, "Doctrina Christiana" was first book written in two versions of Tagalog.
- The name "Tagalog" means "native to" and "river". "Tagalog"is derived from taga ilog, which means "inhabitants of the river".
Similar To
Hindi
Filipino, Cebuano and Spanish Languages
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
4825
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
125
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3618
9
60
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Scripts
Devanagari
Baybayin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
63
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
नमस्ते (namaste)
Kamusta
Thank You
धन्यवाद (dhanyabad)
Salamat po
How Are You?
तिमीलाई कस्तो छ? (timi lai kasto cha?)
Kamusta ka na?
Good Night
शुभ रात्री (subha ratri)
Magandang gabi
Good Evening
शुभ सन्ध्या (subha sandhya)
Magandang gabi po
Good Afternoon
Good afternoon
Magandang hapon po
Good Morning
शुभ प्रभात (subha prabhat)
Magandang umaga po
Please
कृपया
pakiusap
Sorry
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
pinagsisisihan
Bye
नमस्ते (namaste)
Paálam
I Love You
म तपाइलाइ माया गर्छु। (ma tapainlai maya garchu)
Iniibig kita
Excuse Me
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
Ipagpaumanhin ninyo ako
Dialect 1
Doteli
Batangas Tagalog
Where They Speak
Nepal
Batangas, Gabon
How Many People Speak
790,000.0028,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Bajhangi
Bisalog
Where They Speak
India, Nepal
Philippines
How Many People Speak
17,000,000.0028,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Baitadeli
Filipino
Where They Speak
Nepal
Philippines
How Many People Speak
17,000,000.0090,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
123
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
30.00 million73.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.25 %0.42 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
25.00 million28.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
5.00 million45.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
नेपाली (nēpālī)
Tagalog
Alternative Names
Eastern Pahadi, Gorkhali, Gurkhali, Khaskura, Nepalese, Parbate
Filipino, Pilipino
French Name
népalais
tagalog
German Name
Nepali
Tagalog
Pronunciation
[neˈpali]
[tɐˈɡaːloɡ]
Ethnicity
Gurkha, Khas people, Madhesi and Tharu
Tagalog people
Origin
19 BC
1593
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Austronesian Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Indonesian
Branch
Indic
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Language Forms
Early Forms
Khas language, Gurkhali, Parbatiya, Dzongkha Lhotshammikha
Proto-Philippine, Old Tagalog, Classical Tagalog, Tagalog
Standard Forms
Nepali
Filipino
Language Position
5958
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Nepali
Signed Tagalog
Scope
Individual, Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 1
ne
t1
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
nep
tgl
ISO 639 2/B
nep
tgl
ISO 639 3
npi
tg1
ISO 639 6
nep
tgl
Glottocode
nepa1254
taga1269
Linguasphere
12
31-CKA
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Object-Verb-Subject, Subject-Verb-Object, Verb-Object-Subject, Verb-Subject-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
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