Countries
India, Nepal
China
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
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National Language
Nepal
China
Second Language
Republic of Brazil
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
People's Republic of China
Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan
Regulated By
Language Academy of Nepal
Working Committee of Ethnic Language and Writing of Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region
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.
- Uyghur language has large quantity of loan words from Persian, Russian and Chinese.
- Uyghur was originally written with the Orkhon Alphabets.
Similar To
Hindi
Uzbek Language
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
Gokturk Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
4836
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
129
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3627
9
60
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Scripts
Devanagari
Arabic, Cyrillic, Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Vertical, Top-To-Bottom
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
65
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
नमस्ते (namaste)
Ässalamu läykum.
Thank You
धन्यवाद (dhanyabad)
rakhmat
How Are You?
तिमीलाई कस्तो छ? (timi lai kasto cha?)
Yakshimasiz? / Qandaq ahwalingiz?
Good Night
शुभ रात्री (subha ratri)
Kachlikingz khayrilik bolsun
Good Evening
शुभ सन्ध्या (subha sandhya)
Kachlikingz khayrilik bolsun!
Good Afternoon
Good afternoon
تۆنۈگۈن خەير
Good Morning
शुभ प्रभात (subha prabhat)
Atiganlikingz khayrilik bolsun!
Please
कृपया
birdam
Sorry
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
kachurung
Bye
नमस्ते (namaste)
Khayr khosh
I Love You
म तपाइलाइ माया गर्छु। (ma tapainlai maya garchu)
sizni yahshi kOrman
Excuse Me
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
Kachurung
Dialect 1
Doteli
Turpan
Where They Speak
Nepal
China
How Many People Speak
790,000.0010,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Bajhangi
Hotan
Where They Speak
India, Nepal
China
How Many People Speak
17,000,000.0010,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Baitadeli
Lop Nur
Where They Speak
Nepal
China
How Many People Speak
17,000,000.0025,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
127
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
30.00 million10.40 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.25 %0.12 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
25.00 million8.20 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
5.00 million25.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
नेपाली (nēpālī)
Уйғур /ئۇيغۇر (ujġgur / uyghur)
Alternative Names
Eastern Pahadi, Gorkhali, Gurkhali, Khaskura, Nepalese, Parbate
Uighuir, Uighur, Uiguir, Uigur, Uygur, Weiwu’er, Wiga
French Name
népalais
ouïgour
German Name
Nepali
Uigurisch
Pronunciation
[neˈpali]
[ʊjʁʊrˈtʃɛ], [ʊjˈʁʊr tili]
Ethnicity
Gurkha, Khas people, Madhesi and Tharu
Uyghur
Origin
19 BC
11
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Turkic Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
-
Branch
Indic
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Khas language, Gurkhali, Parbatiya, Dzongkha Lhotshammikha
Karakhanid, Chagatai, Eastern Turki
Standard Forms
Nepali
Uyghur
Language Position
5998
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Nepali
Signed Uyghur
Scope
Individual, Macrolanguage
-
ISO 639 1
ne
ug
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
nep
uig
ISO 639 2/B
nep
uig
ISO 639 3
npi
uig
ISO 639 6
nep
uig
Glottocode
nepa1254
uigh1240
Linguasphere
12
No data Available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
-
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
-
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
-