Countries
India, Nepal
South Africa
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
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National Language
Nepal
South Africa
Second Language
Republic of Brazil
Lesotho, South Africa
Speaking Continents
Asia
Africa
Minority Language
People's Republic of China
Botswana, Lesotho
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.
- Xhosa has 15 click sounds, borrowed from the khoi-khoi and san languages of the South Africa.
- The same sequence of consonants and vowels can have different meaning when said with different tones, so Xhosa is tonal.
Similar To
Hindi
Zulu, Swazi, and Ndebele
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
Khoi-Khoi and San Languages
Alphabets in
Alphabets
4853
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
1210
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3643
9
60
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Scripts
Devanagari
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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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)
Molo
Thank You
धन्यवाद (dhanyabad)
Ndiyabulela
How Are You?
तिमीलाई कस्तो छ? (timi lai kasto cha?)
Unjani
Good Night
शुभ रात्री (subha ratri)
Ulale kakuhle
Good Evening
शुभ सन्ध्या (subha sandhya)
Ubusuku obuhle
Good Afternoon
Good afternoon
Uben' emva kwemini entle
Good Morning
शुभ प्रभात (subha prabhat)
Molo
Please
कृपया
Ndicela
Sorry
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
Ndicela uxolo
Bye
नमस्ते (namaste)
Uhambe/Usale kakuhle
I Love You
म तपाइलाइ माया गर्छु। (ma tapainlai maya garchu)
Ndiyakuthanda
Excuse Me
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
Uxolo
Dialect 1
Doteli
Gcaleka
Where They Speak
Nepal
South Africa
How Many People Speak
790,000.0019,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Bajhangi
Thembu
Where They Speak
India, Nepal
South Africa
How Many People Speak
17,000,000.0019,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Baitadeli
Hlubi
Where They Speak
Nepal
South Africa
How Many People Speak
17,000,000.0019.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
129
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
30.00 million20.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.25 %0.11 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
25.00 million8.20 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
5.00 million11.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
नेपाली (nēpālī)
isiXhosa
Alternative Names
Eastern Pahadi, Gorkhali, Gurkhali, Khaskura, Nepalese, Parbate
“Cauzuh” (pej.), Isixhosa, Koosa, Xosa
French Name
népalais
xhosa
German Name
Nepali
Xhosa-Sprache
Pronunciation
[neˈpali]
[ˈkǁʰɔ̀ːsa]
Ethnicity
Gurkha, Khas people, Madhesi and Tharu
amaXhosa, amaBhaca
Origin
19 BC
16th Century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Niger-Congo Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Benue-Congo
Branch
Indic
Bantu
Language Forms
Early Forms
Khas language, Gurkhali, Parbatiya, Dzongkha Lhotshammikha
No early forms
Standard Forms
Nepali
isiXhosa
Language Position
5921
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Nepali
Signed Xhosa
Scope
Individual, Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 1
ne
xh
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
nep
xho
ISO 639 2/B
nep
xho
ISO 639 3
npi
xho
ISO 639 6
nep
xho
Glottocode
nepa1254
xhos1239
Linguasphere
12
99-AUT-fa
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
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