Countries
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
India, Nepal
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 in
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Nepali-Alphabets.jpg#200
Scripts
Cyrillic
Devanagari
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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)
Dialect 1
Doukhobor Russian
Doteli
Where They Speak
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
Nepal
Dialect 2
Olonets
Bajhangi
Where They Speak
Olonets
India, Nepal
Dialect 3
Novgorod
Baitadeli
Where They Speak
Novgorod
Nepal
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
Language Family
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Slavic
Indo-Iranian
Early Forms
Old East Slavic
Khas language, Gurkhali, Parbatiya, Dzongkha Lhotshammikha
Standard Forms
Standard Russian
Nepali
Signed Forms
Signed Russian
Signed Nepali
Scope
Individual
Individual, Macrolanguage
Glottocode
russ1263
nepa1254
Linguasphere
53-AAA-ea
12
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
Agglutinative
Russian and Nepali Greetings
People around the world use different languages to interact with each other. Even if we cannot communicate fluently in any language, it will always be beneficial to know about some of the common greetings or phrases from that language. This is where Russian and Nepali greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Russian and Nepali language. Russian word for "Hello" is здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte) or Nepali word for "Thank You" is धन्यवाद (dhanyabad). Find more of such common Russian Greetings and Nepali Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Russian vs Nepali Difficulty
The Russian vs Nepali difficulty level basically depends on the number of Russian Alphabets and Nepali Alphabets. Also the number of vowels and consonants in the language plays an important role in deciding the difficulty level of that language. The important points to be considered when we compare Russian and Nepali are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Russian and Nepali, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Russian is 44 weeks while to learn Nepali time required is 44 weeks.