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Nepali and Russian


Countries

Countries
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan  
India, Nepal  

Total No. Of Countries
4  
11
2  
13

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  

Alphabets

Alphabets in
Russian-Alphabets.jpg#200  
Nepali-Alphabets.jpg#200  

Alphabets
33  
15
48  
28

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
10  
7
12  
9

How Many Consonants
21  
11
36  
26

Scripts
Cyrillic  
Devanagari  

Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal  

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
6  
5
6  
5

Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks  
17
44 weeks  
17

Greetings

Hello
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)  
नमस्ते (namaste)  

Thank You
спасибо(spasibo)  
धन्यवाद (dhanyabad)  

How Are You?
Как дела? (Kak dela?)  
तिमीलाई कस्तो छ? (timi lai kasto cha?)  

Good Night
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)  
शुभ रात्री (subha ratri)  

Good Evening
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)  
शुभ सन्ध्या (subha sandhya)  

Good Afternoon
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')  
Good afternoon  

Good Morning
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)  
शुभ प्रभात (subha prabhat)  

Please
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)  
कृपया  

Sorry
Извините(Izvinite)  
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)  

Bye
до свидания(do svidaniya)  
नमस्ते (namaste)  

I Love You
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)  
म तपाइलाइ माया गर्छु। (ma tapainlai maya garchu)  

Excuse Me
извините(izvinite)  
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)  

Dialects

Dialect 1
Doukhobor Russian  
Doteli  

Where They Speak
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan  
Nepal  

How Many People Speak
30,000.00  
99+
790,000.00  
99+

Dialect 2
Olonets  
Bajhangi  

Where They Speak
Olonets  
India, Nepal  

How Many People Speak
154,000,000.00  
2
17,000,000.00  
29

Dialect 3
Novgorod  
Baitadeli  

Where They Speak
Novgorod  
Nepal  

How Many People Speak
154,000,000.00  
2
17,000,000.00  
26

Total No. Of Dialects
13  
13
12  
12

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
276.00 million  
6
30.00 million  
36

Speaking Population
2.33 %  
9
0.25 %  
99+

Native Speakers
166.00 million  
8
25.00 million  
32

Second Language Speakers
110.00 million  
7
5.00 million  
99+

Native Name
Русский  
नेपाली (nēpālī)  

Alternative Names
Russki  
Eastern Pahadi, Gorkhali, Gurkhali, Khaskura, Nepalese, Parbate  

French Name
russe  
népalais  

German Name
Russisch  
Nepali  

Pronunciation
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]  
[neˈpali]  

Ethnicity
Russians  
Gurkha, Khas people, Madhesi and Tharu  

History

Origin
1000 AD  
19 BC  

Language Family
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family  
Indo-European Family  

Subgroup
Slavic  
Indo-Iranian  

Branch
Eastern  
Indic  

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
Old East Slavic  
Khas language, Gurkhali, Parbatiya, Dzongkha Lhotshammikha  

Standard Forms
Standard Russian  
Nepali  

Language Position
7  
7
59  
99+

Signed Forms
Signed Russian  
Signed Nepali  

Scope
Individual  
Individual, Macrolanguage  

Code

ISO 639 1
ru  
ne  

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
rus  
nep  

ISO 639 2/B
rus  
nep  

ISO 639 3
rus  
npi  

ISO 639 6
rus  
nep  

Glottocode
russ1263  
nepa1254  

Linguasphere
53-AAA-ea  
12  

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Living  
Living  

Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object  
Subject-Object-Verb  

Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic  
Agglutinative  

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All Russian and Nepali Dialects

Most languages have dialects where each dialect differ from other dialect with respect to grammar and vocabulary. Here you will get to know all Russian and Nepali dialects. Various dialects of Russian and Nepali language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Russian are spoken in different Russian Speaking Countries whereas Nepali Dialects are spoken in different Nepali speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Russian vs Nepali Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Russian dialects include: Doukhobor Russian, Olonets. Nepali dialects include: Doteli , Bajhangi. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

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Russian and Nepali Speaking population

Russian and Nepali speaking population is one of the factors based on which Russian and Nepali languages can be compared. The total count of Russian and Nepali Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Russian language is 2.33 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Nepali language is 0.25 %. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak Russian and Nepali on Russian vs Nepali where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Russian and Nepali Language Codes

Russian and Nepali language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Russian and Nepali Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.

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