Countries
India, Nepal
European Union, Slovenia
Total No. Of Countries
22
0
46
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National Language
Nepal
Austria, Croatia, Hungary, Italy, Slovenia
Second Language
Republic of Brazil
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Europe
Minority Language
People's Republic of China
Austria, Hungary, Italy
Regulated By
Language Academy of Nepal
Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts
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.
- The Freising Monuments is the oldest preserved records of written Slovene from 10th century.
- The first Slovene book was printed in 1550.
Similar To
Hindi
Serbo-Croatian
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
4825
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
125
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3620
9
60
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Scripts
Devanagari
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
62
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
नमस्ते (namaste)
Halo
Thank You
धन्यवाद (dhanyabad)
Hvala
How Are You?
तिमीलाई कस्तो छ? (timi lai kasto cha?)
Kako se imate?
Good Night
शुभ रात्री (subha ratri)
Lahko noč
Good Evening
शुभ सन्ध्या (subha sandhya)
Dober večer
Good Afternoon
Good afternoon
Dober dan
Good Morning
शुभ प्रभात (subha prabhat)
Dobro jutro
Please
कृपया
Prosim
Sorry
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
Oprostite
Bye
नमस्ते (namaste)
Nasvidenje
I Love You
म तपाइलाइ माया गर्छु। (ma tapainlai maya garchu)
Ljubim te
Excuse Me
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
Oprostite
Dialect 1
Doteli
Prekmurje Slovene
Where They Speak
Nepal
Hungary, Slovenia
How Many People Speak
790,000.0080,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Bajhangi
Resian
Where They Speak
India, Nepal
Italy
How Many People Speak
17,000,000.002,500,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Baitadeli
Styrian
Where They Speak
Nepal
Slovenia
How Many People Speak
17,000,000.002,500,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
1248
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
30.00 million2.50 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.25 %0.03 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
25.00 million2.50 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
5.00 million2.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
नेपाली (nēpālī)
Slovenščina
Alternative Names
Eastern Pahadi, Gorkhali, Gurkhali, Khaskura, Nepalese, Parbate
Slovenian, Slovenscina
French Name
népalais
slovène
German Name
Nepali
Slowenisch
Pronunciation
[neˈpali]
[slɔˈʋèːnski ˈjɛ̀ːzik], [slɔˈʋèːnʃt͡ʃina]
Ethnicity
Gurkha, Khas people, Madhesi and Tharu
Slovenes
Origin
19 BC
972-1093
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
-
Branch
Indic
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Khas language, Gurkhali, Parbatiya, Dzongkha Lhotshammikha
No early forms
Standard Forms
Nepali
Slovene
Language Position
5928
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Nepali
Slovene Sign Language
Scope
Individual, Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 1
ne
sl
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
nep
slv
ISO 639 2/B
nep
slv
ISO 639 3
npi
slv
ISO 639 6
nep
slv
Glottocode
nepa1254
slov1268
Linguasphere
12
53-AAA-f
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
-
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
Fusional