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Nepali
Nepali

Tibetan
Tibetan



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Countries

Countries

India, Nepal
China, Nepal

Total No. Of Countries

22
0 46
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National Language

Nepal
Nepal, Tibet

Second Language

Republic of Brazil
Not spoken in any of the countries

Speaking Continents

Asia
Asia

Minority Language

People's Republic of China
China, India, Nepal

Regulated By

Language Academy of Nepal
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language

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.
  • Tibetan dialects vary alot, so it's difficult for tibetans to understand each other if they are not from same area.
  • Tibetan is tonal with six tones in all: short low, long low, high falling, low falling, short high, long high.

Similar To

Hindi
Nepali and Bhutanese Languages

Derived From

Sanskrit Language
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Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

4835
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

125
0 32
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How Many Consonants

3630
9 60
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Scripts

Devanagari
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille

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 weeks24 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

नमस्ते (namaste)
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)

Thank You

धन्यवाद (dhanyabad)
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)

How Are You?

तिमीलाई कस्तो छ? (timi lai kasto cha?)
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས། (kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)

Good Night

शुभ रात्री (subha ratri)
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)

Good Evening

शुभ सन्ध्या (subha sandhya)
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།

Good Afternoon

Good afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།

Good Morning

शुभ प्रभात (subha prabhat)
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)

Please

कृपया
thu-je zig / ku-chee.

Sorry

माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)

Bye

नमस्ते (namaste)
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)

I Love You

म तपाइलाइ माया गर्छु। (ma tapainlai maya garchu)
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)

Excuse Me

माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།

Dialects

Dialect 1

Doteli
Central Tibetan

Where They Speak

Nepal
China, India, Nepal

How Many People Speak

790,000.001,200,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Bajhangi
Khams Tibetan

Where They Speak

India, Nepal
Bhutan, China

How Many People Speak

17,000,000.001,400,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Baitadeli
Amdo Tibetan

Where They Speak

Nepal
China

How Many People Speak

17,000,000.001,800,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

126
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

30.00 million1.20 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.25 %0.05 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

25.00 million1.20 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

5.00 million6.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

नेपाली (nēpālī)
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)

Alternative Names

Eastern Pahadi, Gorkhali, Gurkhali, Khaskura, Nepalese, Parbate
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang

French Name

népalais
tibétain

German Name

Nepali
Tibetisch

Pronunciation

[neˈpali]
[tibetan]

Ethnicity

Gurkha, Khas people, Madhesi and Tharu
tibetan people

History

Origin

19 BC
c. 650

Language Family

Indo-European Family
Sino-Tibetan Family

Subgroup

Indo-Iranian
Tibeto-Burman

Branch

Indic
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Language Forms

Early Forms

Khas language, Gurkhali, Parbatiya, Dzongkha Lhotshammikha
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan

Standard Forms

Nepali
Standard Tibetan

Language Position

5929
1 120
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Signed Forms

Signed Nepali
Tibetan Sign Language

Scope

Individual, Macrolanguage
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Code

ISO 639 1

ne
bo

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

nep
bod

ISO 639 2/B

nep
tib

ISO 639 3

npi
bod

ISO 639 6

nep
bod

Glottocode

nepa1254
tibe1272

Linguasphere

12
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Types of Language

Language Type

Living
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Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Object-Verb
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Language Morphological Typology

Agglutinative
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Nepali and Tibetan Alphabets

Nepali and Tibetan Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Nepali and Tibetan. In Nepali Alphabets there are 48 letters while in Tibetan Alphabets there are 35 letters. To learn Nepali and Tibetan languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Nepali and Tibetan 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 Tibetan greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Nepali and Tibetan are Most Spoken Languages.

All Nepali and Tibetan 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 Tibetan dialects. Various dialects of Nepali and Tibetan language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Nepali are spoken in different Nepali Speaking Countries whereas Tibetan Dialects are spoken in different Tibetan speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Nepali vs Tibetan Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Nepali dialects include: Doteli, Bajhangi. Tibetan dialects include: Central Tibetan , Khams Tibetan. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

Nepali and Tibetan Speaking population

Nepali and Tibetan speaking population is one of the factors based on which Nepali and Tibetan languages can be compared. The total count of Nepali and Tibetan Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Nepali language is 0.25 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Tibetan language is 0.05 %. 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 Tibetan on Nepali vs Tibetan where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Nepali and Tibetan Language Codes

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