Countries
India, Nepal
Benin, Nigeria
Total No. Of Countries
22
0
46
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National Language
Nepal
Nigeria
Second Language
Republic of Brazil
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Africa
Minority Language
People's Republic of China
Africa, Brazil, Togo, United Kingdom, United States of America
Regulated By
Language Academy of Nepal
Yoruba Academy
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.
- One of the largest African ethnic groups is Yoruba in south of Sahara Desert.
- In Yoruba language, same combination of vowels and consonants have different meanings depending on the pitch of the vowels, so it is tonal language.
Similar To
Hindi
Owo and Itsekiri languages
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
4829
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
1212
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3617
9
60
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Scripts
Devanagari
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
63
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks30 weeks
3
88
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Hello
नमस्ते (namaste)
Ẹ n lẹ
Thank You
धन्यवाद (dhanyabad)
e dupe
How Are You?
तिमीलाई कस्तो छ? (timi lai kasto cha?)
Bawo ni o se wa
Good Night
शुभ रात्री (subha ratri)
Kasun layọ o
Good Evening
शुभ सन्ध्या (subha sandhya)
ka a ale
Good Afternoon
Good afternoon
e kaasan
Good Morning
शुभ प्रभात (subha prabhat)
e kaaro
Please
कृपया
Jowo
Sorry
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
binu
Bye
नमस्ते (namaste)
bye
I Love You
म तपाइलाइ माया गर्छु। (ma tapainlai maya garchu)
mo nifẹ rẹ
Excuse Me
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
mo tọrọ gafara
Dialect 1
Doteli
Itsekiri
Where They Speak
Nepal
Nigeria
How Many People Speak
790,000.00500,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Bajhangi
Ede
Where They Speak
India, Nepal
Benin, Togo
How Many People Speak
17,000,000.00800,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Baitadeli
Ulukwumi
Where They Speak
Nepal
Nigeria
How Many People Speak
17,000,000.0010,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
1220
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
30.00 million30.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.25 %0.42 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
25.00 million28.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
5.00 million30.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
नेपाली (nēpālī)
Yorùbá
Alternative Names
Eastern Pahadi, Gorkhali, Gurkhali, Khaskura, Nepalese, Parbate
Yariba, Yooba
French Name
népalais
yoruba
German Name
Nepali
Yoruba-Sprache
Pronunciation
[neˈpali]
[jòɾùbá]
Ethnicity
Gurkha, Khas people, Madhesi and Tharu
Yoruba people
Origin
19 BC
4 BC
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Niger-Congo Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Western Sudanic
Branch
Indic
Kwa
Language Forms
Early Forms
Khas language, Gurkhali, Parbatiya, Dzongkha Lhotshammikha
No early forms
Standard Forms
Nepali
Yorùbá
Language Position
5949
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Nepali
Yoruba Sign Language
Scope
Individual, Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 1
ne
yo
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
nep
yor
ISO 639 2/B
nep
yor
ISO 639 3
npi
yor
ISO 639 6
nep
yor
Glottocode
nepa1254
yoru1245
Linguasphere
12
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
Analytic, Isolating