Countries
India, Nepal
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan
National Language
Nepal
China, Taiwan
Second Language
Republic of Brazil
Republic of Brazil
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
People's Republic of China
Indonesia, Malaysia
Regulated By
Language Academy of Nepal
Chinese Language Standardization Council, National Commission on Language and Script Work, Promote Mandarin Council
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.
- Chinese language is tonal, since meaning of a word changes according to its tone.
- In Chinese language, there is no grammatical distinction between singular or plural, no declination of verbs according to tense, mood and aspect.
Similar To
Hindi
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Derived From
Sanskrit Language
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Alphabets in
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Scripts
Devanagari
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Hello
नमस्ते (namaste)
您好 (Nín hǎo)
Thank You
धन्यवाद (dhanyabad)
谢谢 (Xièxiè)
How Are You?
तिमीलाई कस्तो छ? (timi lai kasto cha?)
你好吗？ (Nǐ hǎo ma?)
Good Night
शुभ रात्री (subha ratri)
晚安 (Wǎn'ān)
Good Evening
शुभ सन्ध्या (subha sandhya)
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)
Good Afternoon
Good afternoon
下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)
Good Morning
शुभ प्रभात (subha prabhat)
早安 (Zǎo ān)
Sorry
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
遗憾 (Yíhàn)
Bye
नमस्ते (namaste)
再见 (Zàijiàn)
I Love You
म तपाइलाइ माया गर्छु। (ma tapainlai maya garchu)
我爱你 (Wǒ ài nǐ)
Excuse Me
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
劳驾 (Láojià)
Dialect 1
Doteli
Mandarin
Where They Speak
Nepal
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan
Where They Speak
India, Nepal
China, United States of America
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Where They Speak
Nepal
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Native Name
नेपाली (nēpālī)
中文 (zhōngwén)
Alternative Names
Eastern Pahadi, Gorkhali, Gurkhali, Khaskura, Nepalese, Parbate
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French Name
népalais
chinois
German Name
Nepali
Chinesisch
Pronunciation
Not Available
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Ethnicity
Gurkha, Khas people, Madhesi and Tharu
Han
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
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Branch
Indic
Not Available
Early Forms
Khas language, Gurkhali, Parbatiya, Dzongkha Lhotshammikha
No early forms
Standard Forms
Nepali
Standard Chinese
Signed Forms
Signed Nepali
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))
Scope
Individual, Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 6
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Glottocode
nepa1254
sini1245
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
Analytic, Isolating
Nepali and Chinese Greetings
People around the world use different languages to interact with each other. Even if we cannot communicate fluently in any language, it will always be beneficial to know about some of the common greetings or phrases from that language. This is where Nepali and Chinese greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Nepali and Chinese language. Nepali word for "Hello" is नमस्ते (namaste) or Chinese word for "Thank You" is 谢谢 (Xièxiè). Find more of such common Nepali Greetings and Chinese Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Nepali vs Chinese Difficulty
The Nepali vs Chinese difficulty level basically depends on the number of Nepali Alphabets and Chinese Alphabets. Also the number of vowels and consonants in the language plays an important role in deciding the difficulty level of that language. The important points to be considered when we compare Nepali and Chinese are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Nepali and Chinese, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Nepali is 44 weeks while to learn Chinese time required is 88 weeks.