Countries
India, Nepal
Thailand
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
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National Language
Nepal
Thailand
Second Language
Republic of Brazil
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
People's Republic of China
Burma, Cambodia, Laos
Regulated By
Language Academy of Nepal
Royal Society of Thailand (ราชบัณฑิตยสภา)
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.
- Thai is tonal language and also it is very repetitive and exaggerative language.
- You should learn thai language with native speakers and not with books or recorders, since speaking and writing in thai are not the same.
Similar To
Hindi
Lao Language
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
Khmer Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
4844
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
1232
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
3644
9
60
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Scripts
Devanagari
Thai
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)
สวัสดี (S̄wạs̄dī)
Thank You
धन्यवाद (dhanyabad)
ขอบคุณ (K̄hxbkhuṇ)
How Are You?
तिमीलाई कस्तो छ? (timi lai kasto cha?)
คุณเป็นอย่างไร? (Khuṇ pĕn xỳāngrị?)
Good Night
शुभ रात्री (subha ratri)
นอนหลับฝันดี (Nxn h̄lạb f̄ạn dī)
Good Evening
शुभ सन्ध्या (subha sandhya)
สวัสดี (S̄wạs̄dī)
Good Afternoon
Good afternoon
สวัสดีตอนบ่าย (S̄wạs̄dī txn b̀āy)
Good Morning
शुभ प्रभात (subha prabhat)
อรุณสวัสดิ์ (Xruṇ s̄wạs̄di̒)
Please
कृपया
โปรด (Pord)
Sorry
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
ขอโทษ (K̄hxthos̄ʹ)
Bye
नमस्ते (namaste)
ลาก่อน (Lā k̀xn)
I Love You
म तपाइलाइ माया गर्छु। (ma tapainlai maya garchu)
ผมรักคุณ (P̄hm rạk khuṇ)
Excuse Me
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
ขอโทษ (K̄hxthos̄ʹ)
Dialect 1
Doteli
Isan
Where They Speak
Nepal
Isan
How Many People Speak
790,000.0020,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Bajhangi
Northern Thai
Where They Speak
India, Nepal
Northern Thailand
How Many People Speak
17,000,000.006,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Baitadeli
Southern Thai
Where They Speak
Nepal
Kedah, Kelantan, Southern Thailand, Tanintharyi
How Many People Speak
17,000,000.004,500,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
129
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
30.00 million60.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.25 %0.85 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
25.00 million20.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
5.00 million40.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
नेपाली (nēpālī)
ภาษาไทย
Alternative Names
Eastern Pahadi, Gorkhali, Gurkhali, Khaskura, Nepalese, Parbate
Siamese, Standard Thai, Thaiklang
French Name
népalais
thaï
German Name
Nepali
Thailändisch
Pronunciation
[neˈpali]
[pʰāːsǎː tʰāj]
Ethnicity
Gurkha, Khas people, Madhesi and Tharu
Central Thai and Thai Chinese
Origin
19 BC
1283 CE
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Tai-Kadai Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Tai
Branch
Indic
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Khas language, Gurkhali, Parbatiya, Dzongkha Lhotshammikha
Old Thai
Standard Forms
Nepali
Thai
Language Position
5947
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Nepali
Thai Sign Language
Scope
Individual, Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 1
ne
th
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
nep
tha
ISO 639 2/B
nep
tha
ISO 639 3
npi
tha
ISO 639 6
nep
tha
Glottocode
nepa1254
thai1261
Linguasphere
12
47-AAA-b
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
Analytic, Isolating