Countries
India, Nepal
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
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
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Scripts
Devanagari
Cyrillic
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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
Dialect 2
Bajhangi
Olonets
Where They Speak
India, Nepal
Olonets
Dialect 3
Baitadeli
Novgorod
Where They Speak
Nepal
Novgorod
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
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Slavic
Early Forms
Khas language, Gurkhali, Parbatiya, Dzongkha Lhotshammikha
Old East Slavic
Standard Forms
Nepali
Standard Russian
Signed Forms
Signed Nepali
Signed Russian
Scope
Individual, Macrolanguage
Individual
Glottocode
nepa1254
russ1263
Linguasphere
12
53-AAA-ea
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
Fusional, Synthetic
Nepali and Russian Greetings
People around the world use different languages to interact with each other. Even if we cannot communicate fluently in any language, it will always be beneficial to know about some of the common greetings or phrases from that language. This is where Nepali and Russian greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Nepali and Russian language. Nepali word for "Hello" is नमस्ते (namaste) or Russian word for "Thank You" is спасибо(spasibo). Find more of such common Nepali Greetings and Russian Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Nepali vs Russian Difficulty
The Nepali vs Russian difficulty level basically depends on the number of Nepali Alphabets and Russian Alphabets. Also the number of vowels and consonants in the language plays an important role in deciding the difficulty level of that language. The important points to be considered when we compare Nepali and Russian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Nepali and Russian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Nepali is 44 weeks while to learn Russian time required is 44 weeks.