Countries
India, Nepal
India, Pakistan
Total No. Of Countries
22
0
46
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National Language
Nepal
Pakistan
Second Language
Republic of Brazil
Pakistan
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia, Oceania
Minority Language
People's Republic of China
India
Regulated By
Language Academy of Nepal
National Council for Promotion of Urdu Language, India, National Language Authority, Pakistan
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.
- Urdu is a language of beauty and grace, that adds meaning to prose and charm to poetry.
- Different languages such as Arabic, Persian and Turkish gave birth and richness to Urdu.
Similar To
Hindi
Arabic and Hindi Languages
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
Ghaznavid Persian Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
4852
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
1210
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3640
9
60
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Scripts
Devanagari
Arabic
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
64
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
नमस्ते (namaste)
خوش آمديد
Thank You
धन्यवाद (dhanyabad)
آپ کا شکریہ
How Are You?
तिमीलाई कस्तो छ? (timi lai kasto cha?)
آپ کیسے ہیں؟
Good Night
शुभ रात्री (subha ratri)
گڈ نائٹ
Good Evening
शुभ सन्ध्या (subha sandhya)
سلام علیکم
Good Afternoon
Good afternoon
گڈ آفٹر نون
Good Morning
शुभ प्रभात (subha prabhat)
گڈ مارننگ
Please
कृपया
براہ مہربانی
Sorry
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
معاف کرنا
Bye
नमस्ते (namaste)
الوداع
I Love You
म तपाइलाइ माया गर्छु। (ma tapainlai maya garchu)
مجھے تم سے محبت
Excuse Me
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
معاف کیجئے گا
Dialect 1
Doteli
Dakhini
Where They Speak
Nepal
India
How Many People Speak
790,000.0011,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Bajhangi
Hyderabadi Urdu
Where They Speak
India, Nepal
India
How Many People Speak
17,000,000.0069,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Baitadeli
Rekhta
Where They Speak
Nepal
South Asia
How Many People Speak
17,000,000.0069,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
123
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
30.00 million104.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.25 %0.99 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
25.00 million61.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
5.00 million43.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
नेपाली (nēpālī)
اُردُو
Alternative Names
Eastern Pahadi, Gorkhali, Gurkhali, Khaskura, Nepalese, Parbate
Bihari
French Name
népalais
ourdou
German Name
Nepali
Urdu
Pronunciation
[neˈpali]
[ˈʊrd̪u]
Ethnicity
Gurkha, Khas people, Madhesi and Tharu
Urdu-speaking people
Origin
19 BC
12th Century CE
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Indo-Iranian
Branch
Indic
Indic
Language Forms
Early Forms
Khas language, Gurkhali, Parbatiya, Dzongkha Lhotshammikha
No early forms
Standard Forms
Nepali
Modern Standard Urdu
Language Position
5920
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Nepali
Signed Urdu
Scope
Individual, Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 1
ne
ur
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
nep
urd
ISO 639 2/B
nep
urd
ISO 639 3
npi
urd
ISO 639 6
nep
urd
Glottocode
nepa1254
urdu1245
Linguasphere
12
59-AAF-q
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
-
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
Fusional