Countries
India, Nepal
India
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
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National Language
Nepal
India
Second Language
Republic of Brazil
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
People's Republic of China
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Language Academy of Nepal
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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.
- Tulu script is similar to Thigalaya script, which was one of the earliest scripts such as Persian and Latin.
- Tulu is a protoDravidian i.e original language.
Similar To
Hindi
Kannada Language
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
4851
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
1216
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3635
9
60
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Scripts
Devanagari
Kannada Script
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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Hard to Learn
Language Levels
65
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
नमस्ते (namaste)
Namaskara
Thank You
धन्यवाद (dhanyabad)
Mast Upakara.
How Are You?
तिमीलाई कस्तो छ? (timi lai kasto cha?)
Yencha Ullar?
Good Night
शुभ रात्री (subha ratri)
yedde rathre
Good Evening
शुभ सन्ध्या (subha sandhya)
yedde baiyya
Good Afternoon
Good afternoon
yedde madhyana
Good Morning
शुभ प्रभात (subha prabhat)
yedde kaande
Please
कृपया
Daya maltadu
Sorry
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
Yenna thapu aandu
Bye
नमस्ते (namaste)
Barpe
I Love You
म तपाइलाइ माया गर्छु। (ma tapainlai maya garchu)
Yank ninade preeti Malpuye
Excuse Me
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
Kshamisi
Dialect 1
Doteli
Brahmin tulu
Where They Speak
Nepal
Tamil Nadu
How Many People Speak
790,000.002,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Bajhangi
Jain
Where They Speak
India, Nepal
Tamil Nadu
How Many People Speak
17,000,000.001,900,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Baitadeli
Girijan
Where They Speak
Nepal
Tamil Nadu
How Many People Speak
17,000,000.002.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
124
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
30.00 million1.70 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.25 %0.01 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
25.00 million1.70 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
5.00 million2.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
नेपाली (nēpālī)
Tulu
Alternative Names
Eastern Pahadi, Gorkhali, Gurkhali, Khaskura, Nepalese, Parbate
Tal, Tallu, Thalu, Thulu, Tilu, Tullu, Tuluva Bhasa
French Name
népalais
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German Name
Nepali
Tulu
Pronunciation
[neˈpali]
[ˈtulu]
Ethnicity
Gurkha, Khas people, Madhesi and Tharu
Tuluva
Origin
19 BC
14
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Dravidian Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
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Branch
Indic
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Language Forms
Early Forms
Khas language, Gurkhali, Parbatiya, Dzongkha Lhotshammikha
No early forms
Standard Forms
Nepali
Tulu
Language Position
5923
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Nepali
Signed Tulu
Scope
Individual, Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 1
ne
No data available
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
nep
tcy
ISO 639 2/B
nep
tul
ISO 639 3
npi
tcy
ISO 639 6
nep
tcy
Glottocode
nepa1254
tulu1258
Linguasphere
12
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
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Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
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