Countries
India, Nepal
Czech Republic, European Union, Serbia, Slovakia
Total No. Of Countries
24
0
46
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National Language
Nepal
Slovakia, Vojvodina, Serbia
Second Language
Republic of Brazil
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Europe
Minority Language
People's Republic of China
Czech Republic, Hungary, Russia, Ukraine
Regulated By
Language Academy of Nepal
Ministry of Culture of the Slovak Republic
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.
- Slovak language was written using Glagolitic Alphabets,in 1843.
- Until the end of 18th century, Slovak did not exist as written language.
Similar To
Hindi
Czech Language
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
Czech-Slovak Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
4846
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
1215
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3638
9
60
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Scripts
Devanagari
Latin
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)
Ahoj
Thank You
धन्यवाद (dhanyabad)
Ďakujem vám
How Are You?
तिमीलाई कस्तो छ? (timi lai kasto cha?)
Ako sa máte?
Good Night
शुभ रात्री (subha ratri)
Dobrú noc
Good Evening
शुभ सन्ध्या (subha sandhya)
Dobrý večer
Good Afternoon
Good afternoon
Dobré popoludnie
Good Morning
शुभ प्रभात (subha prabhat)
Dobré ráno
Please
कृपया
Prosím
Sorry
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
Pardón!
Bye
नमस्ते (namaste)
Dovidenia
I Love You
म तपाइलाइ माया गर्छु। (ma tapainlai maya garchu)
Ľúbim Ťa
Excuse Me
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
Prepáčte!
Dialect 1
Doteli
Eastern Slovak
Where They Speak
Nepal
Abov, Saris, Spis, Zemplin
How Many People Speak
790,000.005,500,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Bajhangi
Central Slovak
Where They Speak
India, Nepal
Gemer, Hont, Liptov, Novohrad, Orava, Tekov, Turiec
How Many People Speak
17,000,000.005,500,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Baitadeli
Western Slovak
Where They Speak
Nepal
Kysuce, Nitra, Trencin, Trnava, Zahorie
How Many People Speak
17,000,000.005,500,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
124
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
30.00 million5.20 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.25 %0.14 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
25.00 million5.20 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
5.00 million6.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
नेपाली (nēpālī)
slovenčina
Alternative Names
Eastern Pahadi, Gorkhali, Gurkhali, Khaskura, Nepalese, Parbate
Slovakian, Slovencina
French Name
népalais
slovaque
German Name
Nepali
Slowakisch
Pronunciation
[neˈpali]
[ˈsləʊvæk]
Ethnicity
Gurkha, Khas people, Madhesi and Tharu
Slovaks
Origin
19 BC
6th Century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Slavic
Branch
Indic
Western
Language Forms
Early Forms
Khas language, Gurkhali, Parbatiya, Dzongkha Lhotshammikha
Proto-Slavic
Standard Forms
Nepali
Slovak
Language Position
5927
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Nepali
Slovak Sign Language
Scope
Individual, Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 1
ne
sk
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
nep
slk
ISO 639 2/B
nep
slo
ISO 639 3
npi
slk
ISO 639 6
nep
slk
Glottocode
nepa1254
slov1269
Linguasphere
12
53-AAA-db
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
Synthetic