Countries
India, Nepal
Wales
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
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National Language
Nepal
Wales
Second Language
Republic of Brazil
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Europe
Minority Language
People's Republic of China
Argentina, United Kingdom
Regulated By
Language Academy of Nepal
Welsh Language Commissioner
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.
- One of the Celtic language still spoken with great numbers of speakers is Welsh language.
- Welsh was evolved from British , which was spoken by ancient Britons.
Similar To
Hindi
English Language
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
British Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
4829
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
127
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
64
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks30 weeks
3
88
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Hello
नमस्ते (namaste)
Helô
Thank You
धन्यवाद (dhanyabad)
Diolch
How Are You?
तिमीलाई कस्तो छ? (timi lai kasto cha?)
Sut ydych chi?
Good Night
शुभ रात्री (subha ratri)
Nos da
Good Evening
शुभ सन्ध्या (subha sandhya)
Noswaith dda
Good Afternoon
Good afternoon
P'nawn da
Good Morning
शुभ प्रभात (subha prabhat)
Bore da
Please
कृपया
os gwelwch yn dda
Sorry
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
Mae'n ddrwg gennym
Bye
नमस्ते (namaste)
Hwyl
I Love You
म तपाइलाइ माया गर्छु। (ma tapainlai maya garchu)
Dw i'n dy garu di
Excuse Me
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
Esgusodwch fi
Dialect 1
Doteli
Patagonian Welsh
Where They Speak
Nepal
Argentina
How Many People Speak
790,000.0038,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Bajhangi
Y Wyndodeg
Where They Speak
India, Nepal
Gwynedd
How Many People Speak
17,000,000.00700,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Baitadeli
Y Bowyseg
Where They Speak
Nepal
Powys
How Many People Speak
17,000,000.00700,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
128
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
30.00 million7.40 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.25 %0.24 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
25.00 million7.40 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
5.00 million0.70 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
नेपाली (nēpālī)
Cymraeg / Y Gymraeg
Alternative Names
Eastern Pahadi, Gorkhali, Gurkhali, Khaskura, Nepalese, Parbate
Cymraeg
French Name
népalais
gallois
German Name
Nepali
Kymrisch
Pronunciation
[neˈpali]
[kəmˈrɑːɨɡ]
Ethnicity
Gurkha, Khas people, Madhesi and Tharu
Welsh people
Origin
19 BC
9th Century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Celtic
Branch
Indic
Brythonic
Language Forms
Early Forms
Khas language, Gurkhali, Parbatiya, Dzongkha Lhotshammikha
Common Brittonic, Old Welsh, Middle Welsh
Standard Forms
Nepali
Welsh
Language Position
5931
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Nepali
Welsh Sign Language
Scope
Individual, Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 1
ne
cy
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
nep
cym
ISO 639 2/B
nep
wel
ISO 639 3
npi
cym
ISO 639 6
nep
cym
Glottocode
nepa1254
wels1247
Linguasphere
12
50-ABA
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Historical
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Verb-Subject-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
Fusional