Countries
India, Nepal
India, Pakistan
Total No. Of Countries
22
0
46
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National Language
Nepal
India, Pakistan
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
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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.
- Kashmiri is the only Daridc language with literature which was originated more than seven hundred and fifty years ago.
- Kashmiri has thousands of loan words from Persian and Arabic Languages.
Similar To
Hindi
Hindi and Urdu Languages
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
4844
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
1217
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3627
9
60
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Scripts
Devanagari
Arabic, Perso-Arabic script
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
66
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
नमस्ते (namaste)
Assalām ‘alaikum
Thank You
धन्यवाद (dhanyabad)
शुकिया / شکریہ (shukriya)
How Are You?
तिमीलाई कस्तो छ? (timi lai kasto cha?)
तोहय छिवा वारय? (tohy ch'ivaa vaarai?)
Good Night
शुभ रात्री (subha ratri)
शबे खैर । (shabey k'eūr)
Good Evening
शुभ सन्ध्या (subha sandhya)
سہا مسا
Good Afternoon
Good afternoon
Hach t'ochoktiya
Good Morning
शुभ प्रभात (subha prabhat)
Hach ch'i
Please
कृपया
مهربانی کر
Sorry
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
माफ कॅरिव । (maap' keuriv)
Bye
नमस्ते (namaste)
Khuda hāfiz
I Love You
म तपाइलाइ माया गर्छु। (ma tapainlai maya garchu)
be chus che seth mohabat karaan
Excuse Me
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
वय त्रॅाविव । (vat' treūviv)
Dialect 1
Doteli
Kashtawari
Where They Speak
Nepal
India, Koshtawar valley, southeast kashmir, India
How Many People Speak
790,000.006,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Bajhangi
Poguli
Where They Speak
India, Nepal
Pogul and Paristan valleys
How Many People Speak
17,000,000.006,100,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Baitadeli
Rambani
Where They Speak
Nepal
India
How Many People Speak
17,000,000.005,600,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
124
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
30.00 million5.60 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.25 %0.05 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
25.00 million5.42 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
5.00 million5.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
नेपाली (nēpālī)
कॉशुर / كٲشُر
Alternative Names
Eastern Pahadi, Gorkhali, Gurkhali, Khaskura, Nepalese, Parbate
Cashmeeree, Cashmiri, Kacmiri, Kaschemiri, Keshur, Koshur
French Name
népalais
kashmiri
German Name
Nepali
Kaschmiri
Pronunciation
[neˈpali]
[kəːʃur]
Ethnicity
Gurkha, Khas people, Madhesi and Tharu
Kashmiris or koshur
Origin
19 BC
12th 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
Kashmiri
Language Position
5923
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Nepali
Indian Signing System (ISS)
Scope
Individual, Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 1
ne
ks
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
nep
kas
ISO 639 2/B
nep
kas
ISO 639 3
npi
kas
ISO 639 6
nep
kas
Glottocode
nepa1254
kash1277
Linguasphere
12
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
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