Countries
India, Nepal
Nigeria
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
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National Language
Nepal
Gambia, Nigeria
Second Language
Republic of Brazil
Nigeria
Speaking Continents
Asia
Africa
Minority Language
People's Republic of China
Benin, Cameroon, Cote d'Ivoire, Ghana, Niger, Sudan, Togo
Regulated By
Language Academy of Nepal
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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.
- Hausa language is the most important and the best known of the Chadic branch.
- There are about one-fourth of Hausa words come from Arabic.
Similar To
Hindi
Yoruba and Igbo Languages
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
4844
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
1212
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3632
9
60
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Scripts
Devanagari
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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Hard to Learn
Language Levels
65
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
नमस्ते (namaste)
sannu
Thank You
धन्यवाद (dhanyabad)
gode ku
How Are You?
तिमीलाई कस्तो छ? (timi lai kasto cha?)
yaya dai
Good Night
शुभ रात्री (subha ratri)
mai kyau dare
Good Evening
शुभ सन्ध्या (subha sandhya)
barka da yamma
Good Afternoon
Good afternoon
barka da rana
Good Morning
शुभ प्रभात (subha prabhat)
mai kyau safe
Please
कृपया
Don Allah
Sorry
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
yi hakuri
Bye
नमस्ते (namaste)
sai anjima
I Love You
म तपाइलाइ माया गर्छु। (ma tapainlai maya garchu)
Ina son ku
Excuse Me
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
gafara dai
Dialect 1
Doteli
Gaananci
Where They Speak
Nepal
Ghana
How Many People Speak
790,000.0050,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Bajhangi
Kurhwayanci
Where They Speak
India, Nepal
Niger
How Many People Speak
17,000,000.00150,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Baitadeli
Daragaram
Where They Speak
Nepal
Niger
How Many People Speak
17,000,000.0050.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
1220
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
30.00 million50.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.25 %0.52 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
25.00 million35.00 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
5.00 million15.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
नेपाली (nēpālī)
حَوْسَ (ḥawsa)
Alternative Names
Eastern Pahadi, Gorkhali, Gurkhali, Khaskura, Nepalese, Parbate
Abakwariga, Habe, Haoussa, Hausawa, Kado, Mgbakpa
French Name
népalais
haoussa
German Name
Nepali
Haussa-Sprache
Pronunciation
[neˈpali]
[hàʊsà]
Ethnicity
Gurkha, Khas people, Madhesi and Tharu
Hausa–Fulani people
Origin
19 BC
14
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Chadic
Branch
Indic
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Language Forms
Early Forms
Khas language, Gurkhali, Parbatiya, Dzongkha Lhotshammikha
No early forms
Standard Forms
Nepali
Hausa
Language Position
5934
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Nepali
Signed Hausa
Scope
Individual, Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 1
ne
ha
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
nep
hau
ISO 639 2/B
nep
hau
ISO 639 3
npi
hau
ISO 639 6
nep
hau
Glottocode
nepa1254
haus1257
Linguasphere
12
19-HAA-b
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
Fusional