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 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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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།
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?
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
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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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
No data Available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
-
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
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Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
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