Countries
Ethiopia, Kenya
India, Nepal
Total No. Of Countries
22
0
46
👆🏻
National Language
Ethiopia
Nepal
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Republic of Brazil
Speaking Continents
Africa
Asia
Minority Language
Somalia
People's Republic of China
Regulated By
-
Language Academy of Nepal
Interesting Facts
- Oromo language is the third most spoken language in Africa.
- Oromo is most spoken language in Cushitic Family.
- 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.
Similar To
Somali Language
Hindi
Derived From
-
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3448
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
1012
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2436
9
60
👆🏻
Scripts
Latin
Devanagari
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
56
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
akkam
नमस्ते (namaste)
Thank You
Galatoomi
धन्यवाद (dhanyabad)
How Are You?
Attam jirta/jirtu?
तिमीलाई कस्तो छ? (timi lai kasto cha?)
Good Night
Nagayattii buli
शुभ रात्री (subha ratri)
Good Evening
Akkam waarite
शुभ सन्ध्या (subha sandhya)
Good Afternoon
Attam oolte / ooltan
Good afternoon
Good Morning
Attam bulte/bultan
शुभ प्रभात (subha prabhat)
Please
Maaloo
कृपया
Sorry
naa dhiisi
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
Bye
Nagayattii!
नमस्ते (namaste)
I Love You
Sin jaaladha
म तपाइलाइ माया गर्छु। (ma tapainlai maya garchu)
Excuse Me
Maaloo na dabarsi
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
Dialect 1
Borana
Doteli
Where They Speak
Ethiopia, Kenya
Nepal
How Many People Speak
4,000,000.00790,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Orma
Bajhangi
Where They Speak
Kenya
India, Nepal
How Many People Speak
66,000.0017,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Wata
Baitadeli
Where They Speak
Kenya
Nepal
How Many People Speak
13,000.0017,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
1712
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
25.00 million30.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.36 %0.25 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
24.00 million25.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
35.00 million5.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Afaan Oromo
नेपाली (nēpālī)
Alternative Names
Afaan Oromoo
Eastern Pahadi, Gorkhali, Gurkhali, Khaskura, Nepalese, Parbate
French Name
galla
népalais
German Name
Galla-Sprache
Nepali
Pronunciation
[ɔrɔmɔ]
[neˈpali]
Ethnicity
Oromos
Gurkha, Khas people, Madhesi and Tharu
Origin
16
19 BC
Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Cushitic
Indo-Iranian
Branch
-
Indic
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Khas language, Gurkhali, Parbatiya, Dzongkha Lhotshammikha
Standard Forms
Afaan Oromo
Nepali
Language Position
9159
1
120
👆🏻
Signed Forms
Oromo Sign Language
Signed Nepali
Scope
Macrolanguage
Individual, Macrolanguage
ISO 639 1
om
ne
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
orm
nep
ISO 639 2/B
orm
nep
ISO 639 3
orm
npi
ISO 639 6
orm
nep
Glottocode
nucl1736
nepa1254
Linguasphere
No data available
12
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
-
Agglutinative