Countries
India, Nepal
Fiji, India
Total No. Of Countries
22
0
46
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National Language
Nepal
India
Second Language
Republic of Brazil
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia, Oceania
Minority Language
People's Republic of China
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Language Academy of Nepal
Central Hindi Directorate
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 Hindi language, nouns are followed by post positions.
- In Hindi, there are many familiar words in English which are in Hindi or of Hindi origin.
Similar To
Hindi
Urdu
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
4844
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
1211
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
3633
9
60
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Scripts
Devanagari
Devanagari
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
64
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
नमस्ते (namaste)
नमस्ते (Namastē)
Thank You
धन्यवाद (dhanyabad)
धन्यवाद (Dhan'yavāda)
How Are You?
तिमीलाई कस्तो छ? (timi lai kasto cha?)
तुम कैसे हो? (Tuma kaisē hō?)
Good Night
शुभ रात्री (subha ratri)
शुभरात्रि (Śubharātri)
Good Evening
शुभ सन्ध्या (subha sandhya)
शुभ सन्ध्या (shubh sandhya)
Good Afternoon
Good afternoon
दोपहर के बाद नमस्कार (dopahar ke bad namaskar)
Good Morning
शुभ प्रभात (subha prabhat)
सुप्रभात (Suprabhāta)
Please
कृपया
कृपया (Kr̥payā)
Sorry
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
खेद (Khēda)
Bye
नमस्ते (namaste)
अलविदा (Alavidā)
I Love You
म तपाइलाइ माया गर्छु। (ma tapainlai maya garchu)
मैं आपसे प्यार करता (Maiṁ āpasē pyāra karatā)
Excuse Me
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
मुझे माफ करें (Mujhē māpha karēṁ)
Dialect 1
Doteli
Khariboli
Where They Speak
Nepal
Delhi, Haryana, Western Uttar Pradesh
How Many People Speak
790,000.00240,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Bajhangi
Marwari
Where They Speak
India, Nepal
Gujarat, Haryana, Rajasthan, Sindh
How Many People Speak
17,000,000.0022,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Baitadeli
Bundeli
Where They Speak
Nepal
Bundelkhand
How Many People Speak
17,000,000.0020,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
1221
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
30.00 million380.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.25 %4.70 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
25.00 million260.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
5.00 million120.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
नेपाली (nēpālī)
हिन्दी
Alternative Names
Eastern Pahadi, Gorkhali, Gurkhali, Khaskura, Nepalese, Parbate
Khadi Boli, Khari Boli
French Name
népalais
hindi
German Name
Nepali
Hindi
Pronunciation
[neˈpali]
[ˈmaːnək ˈɦin̪d̪iː]
Ethnicity
Gurkha, Khas people, Madhesi and Tharu
Hindustani people
Origin
19 BC
7th Century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Indo-Iranian
Branch
Indic
Indic
Language Forms
Early Forms
Khas language, Gurkhali, Parbatiya, Dzongkha Lhotshammikha
No early forms
Standard Forms
Nepali
Standard Hindi
Language Position
595
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Nepali
Indian Signing System
Scope
Individual, Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 1
ne
hi
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
nep
hin
ISO 639 2/B
nep
hin
ISO 639 3
npi
hin
ISO 639 6
nep
hins
Glottocode
nepa1254
hind1269
Linguasphere
12
59-AAF-qf
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
-
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
Fusional, Synthetic