Countries
India, Nepal
Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname
Total No. Of Countries
26
0
46
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National Language
Nepal
Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname
Second Language
Republic of Brazil
South Africa
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia, Europe, North America, South America
Minority Language
People's Republic of China
France, Germany, Indonesia
Regulated By
Language Academy of Nepal
Nederlandse Taalunie (Dutch Language Union)
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.
- Dutch language consist of extremely long words. The longest dutch word in the dictionary is 53 letters long.
- There exists 75% borrowed words in Dutch language, and a lot of those are French, English and Hebrew.
Similar To
Hindi
German and English Languages
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
4826
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
126
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3621
9
60
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Scripts
Devanagari
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
66
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks24 weeks
3
88
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Hello
नमस्ते (namaste)
Hallo
Thank You
धन्यवाद (dhanyabad)
dankjewel
How Are You?
तिमीलाई कस्तो छ? (timi lai kasto cha?)
hoe gaat het met je?
Good Night
शुभ रात्री (subha ratri)
goede Nacht
Good Evening
शुभ सन्ध्या (subha sandhya)
goedenavond
Good Afternoon
Good afternoon
goedemiddag
Good Morning
शुभ प्रभात (subha prabhat)
goedemorgen
Please
कृपया
alsjeblieft
Sorry
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
sorry
Bye
नमस्ते (namaste)
vaarwel
I Love You
म तपाइलाइ माया गर्छु। (ma tapainlai maya garchu)
Ik hou van jou
Excuse Me
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
pardon
Dialect 1
Doteli
Gronings
Where They Speak
Nepal
Netherlands
How Many People Speak
790,000.00590,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Bajhangi
Low Saxon
Where They Speak
India, Nepal
Denmark, Germany, Netherlands
How Many People Speak
17,000,000.004,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Baitadeli
Limburgian
Where They Speak
Nepal
Belgium, Netherlands
How Many People Speak
17,000,000.001,300,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
127
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
30.00 million28.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.25 %0.32 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
25.00 million22.00 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
5.00 million6.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
नेपाली (nēpālī)
Nederlands
Alternative Names
Eastern Pahadi, Gorkhali, Gurkhali, Khaskura, Nepalese, Parbate
Hollands, Nederlands
French Name
népalais
néerlandais; flamand
German Name
Nepali
Niederländisch
Pronunciation
[neˈpali]
[ˈneːdərlɑnts]
Ethnicity
Gurkha, Khas people, Madhesi and Tharu
Dutch people
Origin
19 BC
AD 450-500
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Germanic
Branch
Indic
Western
Language Forms
Early Forms
Khas language, Gurkhali, Parbatiya, Dzongkha Lhotshammikha
Old Dutch, Middle Dutch and Dutch
Standard Forms
Nepali
Standard Dutch
Language Position
5948
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Nepali
Signed Dutch (Nederlands met Gebaren)
Scope
Individual, Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 1
ne
nl
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
nep
nld
ISO 639 2/B
nep
dut
ISO 639 3
npi
nld
ISO 639 6
nep
nld
Glottocode
nepa1254
mode1257
Linguasphere
12
52-ACB-a
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Historical
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
Synthetic