Countries
India, Nepal
Austria, Bosnia, Croatia, European Union, Herzegovina, Italy, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia
Total No. Of Countries
29
0
46
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National Language
Nepal
Austria
Second Language
Republic of Brazil
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Europe
Minority Language
People's Republic of China
Austria, Hungary, Italy, Montenegro, Romania
Regulated By
Language Academy of Nepal
Institute of Croatian Language and Linguistics
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.
- In croatian language, everywhere there are words without vowels.
- Though croatian language was born in 9th century, the first written document in croatian was in 11th century.
Similar To
Hindi
Serbain and Bosnian
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
Church Slavonic
Alphabets in
Alphabets
4830
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
125
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3625
9
60
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Scripts
Devanagari
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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)
bok
Thank You
धन्यवाद (dhanyabad)
hvala
How Are You?
तिमीलाई कस्तो छ? (timi lai kasto cha?)
kako si
Good Night
शुभ रात्री (subha ratri)
laku noć
Good Evening
शुभ सन्ध्या (subha sandhya)
dobra večer
Good Afternoon
Good afternoon
dobar dan
Good Morning
शुभ प्रभात (subha prabhat)
dobro jutro
Please
कृपया
molim
Sorry
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
Oprostite
Bye
नमस्ते (namaste)
Doviđenja
I Love You
म तपाइलाइ माया गर्छु। (ma tapainlai maya garchu)
Volim te
Excuse Me
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
Ispričavam se
Dialect 1
Doteli
Chakavian
Where They Speak
Nepal
Croatia
How Many People Speak
790,000.00660,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Bajhangi
Chakavian
Where They Speak
India, Nepal
Croatia
How Many People Speak
17,000,000.005,500,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Baitadeli
Shtokavian
Where They Speak
Nepal
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Croatia, Hungary, Romania
How Many People Speak
17,000,000.0013,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
1279
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
30.00 million89.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.25 %89.00 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
25.00 million5.60 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
5.00 million1.25 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
नेपाली (nēpālī)
hrvatski
Alternative Names
Eastern Pahadi, Gorkhali, Gurkhali, Khaskura, Nepalese, Parbate
Hrvatski
French Name
népalais
croate
German Name
Nepali
Kroatisch
Pronunciation
[neˈpali]
[xř̩ʋaːtskiː]
Ethnicity
Gurkha, Khas people, Madhesi and Tharu
Croats
Origin
19 BC
9th century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
-
Branch
Indic
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Khas language, Gurkhali, Parbatiya, Dzongkha Lhotshammikha
No early forms
Standard Forms
Nepali
Pluricentric Standard Serbo-Croatian
Language Position
5923
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Nepali
Croatian Sign Language
Scope
Individual, Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 1
ne
hr
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
nep
hrv
ISO 639 2/B
nep
hrv
ISO 639 3
npi
hrv
ISO 639 6
nep
hrv
Glottocode
nepa1254
croa1245
Linguasphere
12
part of 53-AAA-g
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
-
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
Fusional, Synthetic