Countries
India, Nepal
Djibouti, Kenya, Somalia
Total No. Of Countries
23
0
46
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National Language
Nepal
Somalia
Second Language
Republic of Brazil
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Africa, Middle East
Minority Language
People's Republic of China
Yemen
Regulated By
Language Academy of Nepal
National Languages Committee, Regional Somali Language Academy
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.
- Somali language is one of the best documented Afro-Asiatic languages.
- One of the most widely spoken of the Cushitic languages is the Somali Language.
Similar To
Hindi
Afar and Oromo Language
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
Arabic Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
4826
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
125
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3621
9
60
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Scripts
Devanagari
Arabic, Latin, Osmanya
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
65
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks52 weeks
3
88
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Hello
नमस्ते (namaste)
Hello
Thank You
धन्यवाद (dhanyabad)
Waad ku mahadsan tahay
How Are You?
तिमीलाई कस्तो छ? (timi lai kasto cha?)
Sidee tahay ?
Good Night
शुभ रात्री (subha ratri)
Habeenka Good
Good Evening
शुभ सन्ध्या (subha sandhya)
Evening Good
Good Afternoon
Good afternoon
galab wanaagsan
Good Morning
शुभ प्रभात (subha prabhat)
Subax wanaagsan
Please
कृपया
Fadlan
Sorry
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
sorry
Bye
नमस्ते (namaste)
caraysiiyo
I Love You
म तपाइलाइ माया गर्छु। (ma tapainlai maya garchu)
Waan ku jeclahay
Excuse Me
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
iga raali ahow
Dialect 1
Doteli
Northern Somali
Where They Speak
Nepal
Gabon, Standard Somali
How Many People Speak
790,000.0016,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Bajhangi
Benaadir
Where They Speak
India, Nepal
Georgia, The capital of Mogadishu
How Many People Speak
17,000,000.0016,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Baitadeli
Af-Ashraaf
Where They Speak
Nepal
Standard Somali
How Many People Speak
17,000,000.0021.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
123
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
30.00 million13.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.25 %0.07 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
25.00 million8.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
5.00 million21.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
नेपाली (nēpālī)
af Soomaali
Alternative Names
Eastern Pahadi, Gorkhali, Gurkhali, Khaskura, Nepalese, Parbate
Af-Maxaad Tiri, Af-Soomaali, Common Somali, Soomaaliga
French Name
népalais
somali
German Name
Nepali
Somali
Pronunciation
[neˈpali]
[afsoomaali]
Ethnicity
Gurkha, Khas people, Madhesi and Tharu
Somalis
Origin
19 BC
19th century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Cushitic
Branch
Indic
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Khas language, Gurkhali, Parbatiya, Dzongkha Lhotshammikha
No early forms
Standard Forms
Nepali
Somali
Language Position
5983
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Nepali
Somali Sign Language
Scope
Individual, Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 1
ne
so
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
nep
som
ISO 639 2/B
nep
som
ISO 639 3
npi
som
ISO 639 6
nep
som
Glottocode
nepa1254
soma1255
Linguasphere
12
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
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