Countries
India, Nepal
Cambodia
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
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National Language
Nepal
Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam
Second Language
Republic of Brazil
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
People's Republic of China
Australia, France, United States of America
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.
- Khmer is not the tonal language.
- Khmer language has borrowed philisophical, administrative and technical vocabulary from Sanskrit and Pali.
Similar To
Hindi
Lao Language
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
Pali and Sanskrit Languages
Alphabets in
Alphabets
4853
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
1220
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3633
9
60
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Scripts
Devanagari
Khmer
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)
ជំរាបសួរ (jomreab suor)
Thank You
धन्यवाद (dhanyabad)
សូមអរគុណអ្នក (saum arkoun anak)
How Are You?
तिमीलाई कस्तो छ? (timi lai kasto cha?)
អ្នកសុខសប្បាយទេ
Good Night
शुभ रात्री (subha ratri)
រាត្រីលា
Good Evening
शुभ सन्ध्या (subha sandhya)
ល្ងង់អរិយដ្ឋរ
Good Afternoon
Good afternoon
លើកលែងរសៀល
Good Morning
शुभ प्रभात (subha prabhat)
អរុណប្រចាំឡើង
Please
कृपया
សូម
Sorry
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
សូរី
Bye
नमस्ते (namaste)
លាស់ជាស្រី (leah sah srey)
I Love You
म तपाइलाइ माया गर्छु। (ma tapainlai maya garchu)
បងបានស្រលាញ់អូន
Excuse Me
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
សូមទាញយក
Dialect 1
Doteli
Northern Khmer
Where They Speak
Nepal
Australia, Cambodia, France, Thailand, United States of America
How Many People Speak
790,000.001,400,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Bajhangi
Khmer Krom
Where They Speak
India, Nepal
Vietnam
How Many People Speak
17,000,000.001,200,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Baitadeli
Western Khmer
Where They Speak
Nepal
Cambodia, Thailand
How Many People Speak
17,000,000.0016,000,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
126
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
30.00 million16.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.25 %0.24 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
25.00 million13.00 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
5.00 million16.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
नेपाली (nēpālī)
ភាសាខ្មែរ (bhāsā khmɛ̄r)
Alternative Names
Eastern Pahadi, Gorkhali, Gurkhali, Khaskura, Nepalese, Parbate
Cambodian, Khmer
French Name
népalais
khmer central
German Name
Nepali
Kambodschanisch
Pronunciation
[neˈpali]
[pʰiːəsaː kʰmaːe]
Ethnicity
Gurkha, Khas people, Madhesi and Tharu
Khmer, Northern Khmer
Origin
19 BC
14
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Austroasiatic Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
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Branch
Indic
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Khas language, Gurkhali, Parbatiya, Dzongkha Lhotshammikha
Proto-Khmer
Standard Forms
Nepali
Modern Khmer
Language Position
591
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Nepali
Khmer Sign Language
Scope
Individual, Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 1
ne
km
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
nep
khm
ISO 639 2/B
nep
khm
ISO 639 3
npi
khm
ISO 639 6
nep
khm
Glottocode
nepa1254
khme1253
Linguasphere
12
48-ACB
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
Analytic, Isolating