Countries
India, Nepal
Vietnam
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
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National Language
Nepal
Vietnam
Second Language
Republic of Brazil
Australia, East Asia, North America, Southeast Asia, Western Europe
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
People's Republic of China
Czech Republic
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 vocabulary of Vietnamese language is influenced by Chinese Language.
- The only language in East Asia that uses the Latin alphabet is Vietnamese.
Similar To
Hindi
Chinese Language
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
Chinese Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
4837
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
1212
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
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Hard to Learn
Language Levels
63
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
नमस्ते (namaste)
Xin chào
Thank You
धन्यवाद (dhanyabad)
Cam on
How Are You?
तिमीलाई कस्तो छ? (timi lai kasto cha?)
Bạn khỏe không?
Good Night
शुभ रात्री (subha ratri)
Chúc ngủ ngon
Good Evening
शुभ सन्ध्या (subha sandhya)
Chào buổi tối
Good Afternoon
Good afternoon
Chào buổi trưa
Good Morning
शुभ प्रभात (subha prabhat)
Chào buổi sáng
Please
कृपया
xin vui lòng
Sorry
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
Xin lỗi
Bye
नमस्ते (namaste)
Tạm biệt
I Love You
म तपाइलाइ माया गर्छु। (ma tapainlai maya garchu)
tôi yêu bạn
Excuse Me
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
Xin loi
Dialect 1
Doteli
Northern Vietnamese
Where They Speak
Nepal
Dong Bac, Haiphong, Hanoi, Red River Delta, Tay Bac
How Many People Speak
790,000.0076,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Bajhangi
North-central Vietnamese
Where They Speak
India, Nepal
Ha Tinh, Nghe An, Thanh Hoa
How Many People Speak
17,000,000.0076,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Baitadeli
Mid-Central Vietnamese
Where They Speak
Nepal
Hue, Quang Tri, Thua Thien
How Many People Speak
17,000,000.0076,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
125
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
30.00 million91.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.25 %1.14 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
25.00 million75.00 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
5.00 million16.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
नेपाली (nēpālī)
tiếng việt (㗂越)
Alternative Names
Eastern Pahadi, Gorkhali, Gurkhali, Khaskura, Nepalese, Parbate
Annamese, Ching, Gin, Jing, Kinh, Viet
French Name
népalais
vietnamien
German Name
Nepali
Vietnamesisch
Pronunciation
[neˈpali]
[tĭəŋ vìəˀt] (Northern)
[tǐəŋ jìək] (Southern)
Ethnicity
Gurkha, Khas people, Madhesi and Tharu
Vietnamese (Kinh) people
Origin
19 BC
c. 1440
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Austroasiatic Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
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Branch
Indic
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Language Forms
Early Forms
Khas language, Gurkhali, Parbatiya, Dzongkha Lhotshammikha
Pre-Vietnamese, Proto-Vietnamese, Archaic Vietnamese, Ancient Vietnamese, Middle Vietnamese, Modern Vietnamese
Standard Forms
Nepali
Standard Vietnamese
Language Position
5914
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Nepali
Vietnamese sign languages
Scope
Individual, Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 1
ne
vi
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
nep
vie
ISO 639 2/B
nep
vie
ISO 639 3
npi
vie
ISO 639 6
nep
vie
Glottocode
nepa1254
viet1252
Linguasphere
12
46-EBA
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
Analytic, Isolating