Countries
India, Nepal
Estonia, European Union
Total No. Of Countries
22
0
46
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National Language
Nepal
Estonia, Gambia
Second Language
Republic of Brazil
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Europe
Minority Language
People's Republic of China
Denmark, Russia, Sweden
Regulated By
Language Academy of Nepal
Institute of the Estonian Language
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.
- Estonian language is considered to be powerful symbol of Estonian identity and culture.
- Estonian language has adopted many words with Finnish language.
Similar To
Hindi
Finnish
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
4827
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
129
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3618
9
60
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Scripts
Devanagari
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
62
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
नमस्ते (namaste)
Tere
Thank You
धन्यवाद (dhanyabad)
aitäh
How Are You?
तिमीलाई कस्तो छ? (timi lai kasto cha?)
kuidas sul läheb
Good Night
शुभ रात्री (subha ratri)
Head ööd
Good Evening
शुभ सन्ध्या (subha sandhya)
Tere õhtust
Good Afternoon
Good afternoon
Tere päevast
Good Morning
शुभ प्रभात (subha prabhat)
Tere hommikust
Please
कृपया
Palun
Sorry
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
Vabandust
Bye
नमस्ते (namaste)
Head aega
I Love You
म तपाइलाइ माया गर्छु। (ma tapainlai maya garchu)
ma armastan sind
Excuse Me
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
Vabandage
Dialect 1
Doteli
Keskmurre
Where They Speak
Nepal
Gabon, Northeastern coast of Estonia
How Many People Speak
790,000.001,300,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Bajhangi
Tartu
Where They Speak
India, Nepal
Georgia, South Estonia
How Many People Speak
17,000,000.001,300,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Baitadeli
Idamurre
Where They Speak
Nepal
France, Northwestern shore of Lake Peipsi.
How Many People Speak
17,000,000.001,300,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
128
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
30.00 million1.10 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.25 %0.03 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
25.00 million0.95 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
5.00 million1.10 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
नेपाली (nēpālī)
eesti keel
Alternative Names
Eastern Pahadi, Gorkhali, Gurkhali, Khaskura, Nepalese, Parbate
Eesti keel
French Name
népalais
estonien
German Name
Nepali
Estnisch
Pronunciation
[neˈpali]
[eˈstˑoˑniˑa]
Ethnicity
Gurkha, Khas people, Madhesi and Tharu
Estonians
Origin
19 BC
13th century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Uralic Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Finno-Ugric
Branch
Indic
Finnic
Language Forms
Early Forms
Khas language, Gurkhali, Parbatiya, Dzongkha Lhotshammikha
No early forms
Standard Forms
Nepali
Estonian
Language Position
5922
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Nepali
Estonian Sign Language
Scope
Individual, Macrolanguage
Macrolanguage
ISO 639 1
ne
et
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
nep
est
ISO 639 2/B
nep
est
ISO 639 3
npi
est
ISO 639 6
nep
est
Glottocode
nepa1254
esto1258
Linguasphere
12
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
Agglutinative