Countries
India, Nepal
African Union, Democratic Republic of the Congo, East African Community, Kenya
Total No. Of Countries
24
0
46
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National Language
Nepal
Burundi, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, South Sudan, Tanzania
Second Language
Republic of Brazil
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Africa
Minority Language
People's Republic of China
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Language Academy of Nepal
Chama cha Kiswahili cha Taifa (Kenya)
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.
- Swahili language has borrowed many words from Arabic language.
- The oldest written scripts in swahili language were found in 18th century.
Similar To
Hindi
Burundi, Rwanda, Malawi Languages
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
Arabic Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
4824
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
125
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3621
9
60
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Scripts
Devanagari
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
63
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks36 weeks
3
88
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Hello
नमस्ते (namaste)
Habari
Thank You
धन्यवाद (dhanyabad)
Asante
How Are You?
तिमीलाई कस्तो छ? (timi lai kasto cha?)
Habari gani?
Good Night
शुभ रात्री (subha ratri)
Usiku mwema
Good Evening
शुभ सन्ध्या (subha sandhya)
Habari za jioni
Good Afternoon
Good afternoon
nzuri Alasiri
Good Morning
शुभ प्रभात (subha prabhat)
Habari za asubuhi
Please
कृपया
tafadhali
Sorry
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
pole
Bye
नमस्ते (namaste)
bye
I Love You
म तपाइलाइ माया गर्छु। (ma tapainlai maya garchu)
nakupenda
Excuse Me
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
Samahani
Dialect 1
Doteli
Kiunguja
Where They Speak
Nepal
Zanzibar island
How Many People Speak
790,000.0075,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Bajhangi
Kimrima
Where They Speak
India, Nepal
Dar es Salaam
How Many People Speak
17,000,000.0075,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Baitadeli
Kimgao
Where They Speak
Nepal
Kilwa
How Many People Speak
17,000,000.0075,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
1212
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
30.00 million150.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.25 %0.42 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
25.00 million15.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
5.00 million75.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
नेपाली (nēpālī)
Kiswahili
Alternative Names
Eastern Pahadi, Gorkhali, Gurkhali, Khaskura, Nepalese, Parbate
Kisuaheli, Kiswahili
French Name
népalais
swahili
German Name
Nepali
Swahili
Pronunciation
[neˈpali]
[swaˈhili]
Ethnicity
Gurkha, Khas people, Madhesi and Tharu
Swahili people or Waswahili
Origin
19 BC
6th century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Niger-Congo Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Benue-Congo
Branch
Indic
Bantu
Language Forms
Early Forms
Khas language, Gurkhali, Parbatiya, Dzongkha Lhotshammikha
No early forms
Standard Forms
Nepali
Swahili
Language Position
5921
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Nepali
Swahili Sign Language
Scope
Individual, Macrolanguage
Individual, Macrolanguage
ISO 639 1
ne
sw
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
nep
swa
ISO 639 2/B
nep
swa
ISO 639 3
npi
swa
ISO 639 6
nep
swa
Glottocode
nepa1254
swah1254
Linguasphere
12
99-AUS-m
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
-
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
-