Countries
India, Nepal
Philippines
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
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National Language
Nepal
Philippines
Second Language
Republic of Brazil
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
People's Republic of China
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Language Academy of Nepal
Commission on the Filipino 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.
- Ilocano was originally written with Baybayin syllabary, then gradually it was replaced by Latin alphabet.
- Northwest Luzon is the original Ilocano homeland.
Similar To
Hindi
Tagalog, Indonesian and Malaysian Languages
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
4832
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
126
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
3620
9
60
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Scripts
Devanagari
Ilokano Braille, Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
64
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
नमस्ते (namaste)
Kablaaw
Thank You
धन्यवाद (dhanyabad)
Agyamanak
How Are You?
तिमीलाई कस्तो छ? (timi lai kasto cha?)
Kumusta?
Good Night
शुभ रात्री (subha ratri)
Naimbag a rabii
Good Evening
शुभ सन्ध्या (subha sandhya)
Naimbag a sardam
Good Afternoon
Good afternoon
Naimbag a malem
Good Morning
शुभ प्रभात (subha prabhat)
Naimbag a bigat
Please
कृपया
mangngegda
Sorry
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
Agpakawanak
Bye
नमस्ते (namaste)
Pakada
I Love You
म तपाइलाइ माया गर्छु। (ma tapainlai maya garchu)
Ayayatenka
Excuse Me
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
Maawan-dayawen
Dialect 1
Doteli
Balangao
Where They Speak
Nepal
Philippines
How Many People Speak
790,000.0021,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Bajhangi
Bontoc
Where They Speak
India, Nepal
Philippines
How Many People Speak
17,000,000.0041,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Baitadeli
Not present
Where They Speak
Nepal
Not present
How Many People Speak
17,000,000.008,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
122
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
30.00 million9.10 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.25 %0.14 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
25.00 million9.10 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
5.00 million11.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
नेपाली (nēpālī)
ilokano
Alternative Names
Eastern Pahadi, Gorkhali, Gurkhali, Khaskura, Nepalese, Parbate
Ilokano, Iloko
French Name
népalais
ilocano
German Name
Nepali
Ilokano-Sprache
Pronunciation
[neˈpali]
[iːloˈkɑno]
Ethnicity
Gurkha, Khas people, Madhesi and Tharu
Ilocano people
Origin
19 BC
18th Century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Austronesian Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
-
Branch
Indic
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Khas language, Gurkhali, Parbatiya, Dzongkha Lhotshammikha
No early forms
Standard Forms
Nepali
Modern Ilocano
Language Position
5994
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Nepali
Ilocano Sign Language
Scope
Individual, Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 1
ne
No data available
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
nep
ilo
ISO 639 2/B
nep
ilo
ISO 639 3
npi
ilo
ISO 639 6
nep
ilo
Glottocode
nepa1254
ilok1237
Linguasphere
12
31-CBA-a
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
-
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
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