Countries
India, Nepal
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
Total No. Of Countries
24
0
46
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National Language
Nepal
Russia
Second Language
Republic of Brazil
Afganistan
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia, Europe
Minority Language
People's Republic of China
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, Poland, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
Regulated By
Language Academy of Nepal
Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
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 Russian language, the words are not pronounced as they are written.
- In Russian language, there are only 200,000 words out of which only few words are used and due to this many words have more than one meaning.
Similar To
Hindi
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary
Alphabets in
Alphabets
4833
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
1210
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
3621
9
60
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Scripts
Devanagari
Cyrillic
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
66
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
नमस्ते (namaste)
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)
Thank You
धन्यवाद (dhanyabad)
спасибо(spasibo)
How Are You?
तिमीलाई कस्तो छ? (timi lai kasto cha?)
Как дела? (Kak dela?)
Good Night
शुभ रात्री (subha ratri)
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)
Good Evening
शुभ सन्ध्या (subha sandhya)
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)
Good Afternoon
Good afternoon
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')
Good Morning
शुभ प्रभात (subha prabhat)
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)
Please
कृपया
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)
Sorry
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
Извините(Izvinite)
Bye
नमस्ते (namaste)
до свидания(do svidaniya)
I Love You
म तपाइलाइ माया गर्छु। (ma tapainlai maya garchu)
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)
Excuse Me
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
извините(izvinite)
Dialect 1
Doteli
Doukhobor Russian
Where They Speak
Nepal
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
How Many People Speak
790,000.0030,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Bajhangi
Olonets
Where They Speak
India, Nepal
Olonets
How Many People Speak
17,000,000.00154,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Baitadeli
Novgorod
Where They Speak
Nepal
Novgorod
How Many People Speak
17,000,000.00154,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
1213
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
30.00 million276.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.25 %2.33 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
25.00 million166.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
5.00 million110.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
नेपाली (nēpālī)
Русский
Alternative Names
Eastern Pahadi, Gorkhali, Gurkhali, Khaskura, Nepalese, Parbate
Russki
French Name
népalais
russe
German Name
Nepali
Russisch
Pronunciation
[neˈpali]
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
Ethnicity
Gurkha, Khas people, Madhesi and Tharu
Russians
Origin
19 BC
1000 AD
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Slavic
Branch
Indic
Eastern
Language Forms
Early Forms
Khas language, Gurkhali, Parbatiya, Dzongkha Lhotshammikha
Old East Slavic
Standard Forms
Nepali
Standard Russian
Language Position
597
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Nepali
Signed Russian
Scope
Individual, Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 1
ne
ru
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
nep
rus
ISO 639 2/B
nep
rus
ISO 639 3
npi
rus
ISO 639 6
nep
rus
Glottocode
nepa1254
russ1263
Linguasphere
12
53-AAA-ea
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
Fusional, Synthetic