Countries
India, Nepal
Armenian Highland
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
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National Language
Nepal
Armenia, Nagorno-Karabakh Republic
Second Language
Republic of Brazil
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia, Europe
Minority Language
People's Republic of China
Cyprus, Hungary, Iraq, Poland, Romania, Ukraine
Regulated By
Language Academy of Nepal
Armenian National Academy of Sciences
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 first language into which Bible was translated is Armenian.
- Christianity was recognized as a national religion in 301 by Armenia Country.
Similar To
Hindi
Greek
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
4838
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
126
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
3632
9
60
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Scripts
Devanagari
Armenian manuscript
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
612
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
नमस्ते (namaste)
Բարեւ (Barev)
Thank You
धन्यवाद (dhanyabad)
Շնորհակալություն (Shnorhakalut’yun)
How Are You?
तिमीलाई कस्तो छ? (timi lai kasto cha?)
Ինչպես եք դուք? (Inch’pes yek’ duk’)
Good Night
शुभ रात्री (subha ratri)
Բարի գիշեր (Bari gisher)
Good Evening
शुभ सन्ध्या (subha sandhya)
Բարի երեկո (Bari yereko)
Good Afternoon
Good afternoon
Բարի օր (Bari or)
Good Morning
शुभ प्रभात (subha prabhat)
Բարի լույս (Bari luys)
Please
कृपया
Խնդրում եմ (Khndrum yem)
Sorry
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
կներեք (knerek’)
Bye
नमस्ते (namaste)
Ց'տեսություն
I Love You
म तपाइलाइ माया गर्छु। (ma tapainlai maya garchu)
Ես սիրում եմ քեզ (Yes sirum yem k’yez)
Excuse Me
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
Ներեցեք ինձ (Nerets’yek’ indz)
Dialect 1
Doteli
Eastern Armenian
Where They Speak
Nepal
Armenia, Armenian Highland, Georgia, Iran, Nagorno-Karabakh Republic, Turkey
How Many People Speak
790,000.006,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Bajhangi
Western Armenian
Where They Speak
India, Nepal
Armenian Highland, Cilicia, Lebanon, Syria, Turkey
How Many People Speak
17,000,000.006,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Baitadeli
Eastern Armenian
Where They Speak
Nepal
-
How Many People Speak
17,000,000.006,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
122
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
30.00 million6.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.25 %0.22 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
25.00 million6.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
5.00 million7.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
नेपाली (nēpālī)
Հայերէն (Hayeren)
Alternative Names
Eastern Pahadi, Gorkhali, Gurkhali, Khaskura, Nepalese, Parbate
Armjanski Yazyk, Ena, Ermeni Dili, Ermenice, Somkhuri
French Name
népalais
arménien
German Name
Nepali
Armenisch
Pronunciation
[neˈpali]
[hɑjɛˈɾɛn]
Ethnicity
Gurkha, Khas people, Madhesi and Tharu
Armenians
Origin
19 BC
late 5th century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
-
Branch
Indic
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Khas language, Gurkhali, Parbatiya, Dzongkha Lhotshammikha
Proto-Armenian, Classical Armenian, Middle Armenian, Armenian
Standard Forms
Nepali
Eastern Armenian, Western Armenian
Language Position
5914
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Nepali
Signed Armenian
Scope
Individual, Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 1
ne
hy
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
nep
hye
ISO 639 2/B
nep
arm
ISO 639 3
npi
hye
ISO 639 6
nep
hye
Glottocode
nepa1254
arme1241
Linguasphere
12
57-AAA-a
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
-
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
Agglutinative, Synthetic