Countries
India, Nepal
Japan
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
👆🏻
National Language
Nepal
Japan
Second Language
Republic of Brazil
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia, Pacific
Minority Language
People's Republic of China
Palau
Regulated By
Language Academy of Nepal
Agency for Cultural Affairs (文化庁) at the Ministry of Education
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 Japanese Language, there are 4 different ways to address people: kun, chan, san and sama.
- There are many words in Japanese language which end with vowel letter, which determines the structure and rhythm of Japanese.
Similar To
Hindi
Korean Language
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
4899
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
125
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
3614
9
60
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Scripts
Devanagari
Kana
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
65
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks88 weeks
3
88
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Hello
नमस्ते (namaste)
こんにちは (Kon'nichiwa)
Thank You
धन्यवाद (dhanyabad)
ありがとう (Arigatō)
How Are You?
तिमीलाई कस्तो छ? (timi lai kasto cha?)
お元気ですか (O genki desu ka?)
Good Night
शुभ रात्री (subha ratri)
おやすみなさい (Oyasuminasai)
Good Evening
शुभ सन्ध्या (subha sandhya)
こんばんは (Konbanwa)
Good Afternoon
Good afternoon
こんにちは (Konnichiwa!)
Good Morning
शुभ प्रभात (subha prabhat)
おはよう (Ohayō)
Please
कृपया
お願いします (Onegaishimasu)
Sorry
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
ごめんなさい (Gomen'nasai)
Bye
नमस्ते (namaste)
さようなら (Sayōnara)
I Love You
म तपाइलाइ माया गर्छु। (ma tapainlai maya garchu)
愛しています (Aishiteimasu)
Excuse Me
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
すみません (Sumimasen)
Dialect 1
Doteli
Sanuki
Where They Speak
Nepal
Kagawa
How Many People Speak
790,000.001,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Bajhangi
Hakata
Where They Speak
India, Nepal
Fukuoka
How Many People Speak
17,000,000.00127,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Baitadeli
Kansai
Where They Speak
Nepal
kansai
How Many People Speak
17,000,000.00127,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
1231
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
30.00 million128.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.25 %1.90 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
25.00 million128.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
5.00 million3.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
नेपाली (nēpālī)
日本語
Alternative Names
Eastern Pahadi, Gorkhali, Gurkhali, Khaskura, Nepalese, Parbate
Nihongo
French Name
népalais
japonais
German Name
Nepali
Japanisch
Pronunciation
[neˈpali]
/nihoɴɡo/: [nihõŋɡo], [nihõŋŋo]
Ethnicity
Gurkha, Khas people, Madhesi and Tharu
Japanese (Yamato)
Origin
19 BC
1185
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Japonic Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
-
Branch
Indic
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Khas language, Gurkhali, Parbatiya, Dzongkha Lhotshammikha
Old Japanese, Early Middle Japanese, Late Middle Japanese and Early Modern Japanese
Standard Forms
Nepali
Japanese
Language Position
598
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Nepali
Signed Japanese
Scope
Individual, Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 1
ne
ja
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
nep
jpn
ISO 639 2/B
nep
jpn
ISO 639 3
npi
jpn
ISO 639 6
nep
jpn
Glottocode
nepa1254
nucl1643
Linguasphere
12
45-CAA-a
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
Agglutinative, Synthetic