Countries
India, Nepal
West Java
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
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National Language
Nepal
Indonesia
Second Language
Republic of Brazil
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
People's Republic of China
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Language Academy of Nepal
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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 Sundanese language is second most widely spoken regional language in Indonesia.
Similar To
Hindi
Madurese and Malay Languages
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
4833
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
125
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3616
9
60
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Scripts
Devanagari
Latin, Sundanese
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
66
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks40 weeks
3
88
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Hello
नमस्ते (namaste)
Halo
Thank You
धन्यवाद (dhanyabad)
Nuhun
How Are You?
तिमीलाई कस्तो छ? (timi lai kasto cha?)
Kumaha kabarna?
Good Night
शुभ रात्री (subha ratri)
Wilujeng kulem
Good Evening
शुभ सन्ध्या (subha sandhya)
Wilujeng wengi
Good Afternoon
Good afternoon
Wilujeng siang
Good Morning
शुभ प्रभात (subha prabhat)
Wilujeng énjing
Please
कृपया
Mangga
Sorry
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
Hapunten
Bye
नमस्ते (namaste)
Wilujeng angkat
I Love You
म तपाइलाइ माया गर्छु। (ma tapainlai maya garchu)
Abdi bogoh ka anjeun
Excuse Me
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
Punten
Dialect 1
Doteli
Western dialect
Where They Speak
Nepal
Banten
How Many People Speak
790,000.0040,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Bajhangi
Northern dialect
Where They Speak
India, Nepal
Bogor
How Many People Speak
17,000,000.0040,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Baitadeli
Priangan dialect
Where They Speak
Nepal
Bandung
How Many People Speak
17,000,000.0040,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
126
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
30.00 million39.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.25 %0.57 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
25.00 million38.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
5.00 million39.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
नेपाली (nēpālī)
Basa Sunda
Alternative Names
Eastern Pahadi, Gorkhali, Gurkhali, Khaskura, Nepalese, Parbate
Priangan, Sunda
French Name
népalais
soundanais
German Name
Nepali
Sundanesisch
Pronunciation
[neˈpali]
[sʊnˈdæniːs]
Ethnicity
Gurkha, Khas people, Madhesi and Tharu
Sundanese, Bantenese, Cirebonese, Badui
Origin
19 BC
5th century AD
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Austronesian Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Indonesian
Branch
Indic
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Language Forms
Early Forms
Khas language, Gurkhali, Parbatiya, Dzongkha Lhotshammikha
No early forms
Standard Forms
Nepali
Sundanese
Language Position
5942
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Nepali
Sundanese Sign Language
Scope
Individual, Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 1
ne
su
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
nep
sun
ISO 639 2/B
nep
sun
ISO 639 3
npi
sun
ISO 639 6
nep
sun
Glottocode
nepa1254
sund1251
Linguasphere
12
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
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