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
Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Swaziland, Zimbabwe
Speaking Continents
Asia
Africa
Minority Language
People's Republic of China
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Language Academy of Nepal
Pan South African Language Board
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.
- The meaning of word "Zulu" means "Sky"and Zulu was the name of the ancestor who founded the Zulu royal line in about 1670.
- Zulu language has many loanwords borrowed from Afrikaans and English Languages.
Similar To
Hindi
Xhosa Language
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
4857
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
127
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3650
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 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
नमस्ते (namaste)
Sawubona
Thank You
धन्यवाद (dhanyabad)
Ngiyabonga
How Are You?
तिमीलाई कस्तो छ? (timi lai kasto cha?)
unjani
Good Night
शुभ रात्री (subha ratri)
okuhle ebusuku
Good Evening
शुभ सन्ध्या (subha sandhya)
okuhle kusihlwa
Good Afternoon
Good afternoon
okuhle ntambama
Good Morning
शुभ प्रभात (subha prabhat)
okuhle ekuseni
Please
कृपया
Ngiyacela
Sorry
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
Ngiyaxolisa
Bye
नमस्ते (namaste)
bye
I Love You
म तपाइलाइ माया गर्छु। (ma tapainlai maya garchu)
Ngiyakuthanda wena
Excuse Me
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
Uxolo
Dialect 1
Doteli
Qwabe
Where They Speak
Nepal
Gabon, South Africa
How Many People Speak
790,000.0028,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Bajhangi
central KwaZulu-Natal Zulu
Where They Speak
India, Nepal
Georgia, South Africa
How Many People Speak
17,000,000.0028,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Baitadeli
Ndebele
Where They Speak
Nepal
Zimbabwe
How Many People Speak
17,000,000.0028,000,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
124
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
30.00 million30.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.25 %0.16 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
25.00 million12.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
5.00 million16.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
नेपाली (nēpālī)
isiZulu
Alternative Names
Eastern Pahadi, Gorkhali, Gurkhali, Khaskura, Nepalese, Parbate
Isizulu, Zunda
French Name
népalais
zoulou
German Name
Nepali
Zulu-Sprache
Pronunciation
[neˈpali]
[zuːlu]
Ethnicity
Gurkha, Khas people, Madhesi and Tharu
Zulu people
Origin
19 BC
19
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Niger-Congo Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Benue-Congo
Branch
Indic
Beatu
Language Forms
Early Forms
Khas language, Gurkhali, Parbatiya, Dzongkha Lhotshammikha
urban Zulu
Standard Forms
Nepali
Deep Zulu
Language Position
5987
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Nepali
Zulu Sign Language
Scope
Individual, Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 1
ne
zu
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
nep
zul
ISO 639 2/B
nep
zul
ISO 639 3
npi
zul
ISO 639 6
nep
zul
Glottocode
nepa1254
zulu1248
Linguasphere
12
99-AUT-fg
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
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