Countries
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
India, Nepal
Total No. Of Countries
42
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National Language
Russia
Nepal
Second Language
Afganistan
Republic of Brazil
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
Asia
Minority Language
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, Poland, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
People's Republic of China
Regulated By
Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Language Academy of Nepal
Interesting Facts
- In Russian language, the words are not pronounced as they are written.
- In Russian language, there are only 200,000 words out of which only few words are used and due to this many words have more than one meaning.
- 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
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages
Hindi
Derived From
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary
Sanskrit Language