Countries
India, Nepal
Total No. Of Countries
2
Rank: 13 (Overall)
0
46
👆🏻
National Language
Nepal
Second Language
Republic of Brazil
Speaking Continents
Asia
Minority Language
People's Republic of China
Regulated By
Language Academy of Nepal
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.
Similar To
Hindi
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
48
Rank: 28 (Overall)
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
12
Rank: 9 (Overall)
0
32
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How Many Consonants
36
Rank: 26 (Overall)
9
60
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Scripts
Devanagari
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
6
Rank: 5 (Overall)
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks
Rank: 17 (Overall)
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
नमस्ते (namaste)
Thank You
धन्यवाद (dhanyabad)
How Are You?
तिमीलाई कस्तो छ? (timi lai kasto cha?)
Good Night
शुभ रात्री (subha ratri)
Good Evening
शुभ सन्ध्या (subha sandhya)
Good Afternoon
Good afternoon
Good Morning
शुभ प्रभात (subha prabhat)
Please
कृपया
Sorry
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
Bye
नमस्ते (namaste)
I Love You
म तपाइलाइ माया गर्छु। (ma tapainlai maya garchu)
Excuse Me
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
Dialect 1
Doteli
Where They Speak
Nepal
How Many People Speak
790,000.00
Rank: 63 (Overall)
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Bajhangi
Where They Speak
India, Nepal
How Many People Speak
17,000,000.00
Rank: 29 (Overall)
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Baitadeli
Where They Speak
Nepal
How Many People Speak
17,000,000.00
Rank: 26 (Overall)
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
12
Rank: 12 (Overall)
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
30.00 million
Rank: 36 (Overall)
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.25 %
Rank: 43 (Overall)
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
25.00 million
Rank: 32 (Overall)
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
5.00 million
Rank: 51 (Overall)
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
नेपाली (nēpālī)
Alternative Names
Eastern Pahadi, Gorkhali, Gurkhali, Khaskura, Nepalese, Parbate
French Name
népalais
German Name
Nepali
Pronunciation
[neˈpali]
Ethnicity
Gurkha, Khas people, Madhesi and Tharu
Origin
19 BC
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Branch
Indic
Language Forms
Early Forms
Khas language, Gurkhali, Parbatiya, Dzongkha Lhotshammikha
Standard Forms
Nepali
Language Position
59
Rank: 54 (Overall)
1
120
👆🏻
Signed Forms
Signed Nepali
Scope
Individual, Macrolanguage
ISO 639 1
ne
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
nep
ISO 639 2/B
nep
ISO 639 3
npi
ISO 639 6
nep
Glottocode
nepa1254
Linguasphere
12
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative