Countries
India
India, Nepal
National Language
India
Nepal
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Republic of Brazil
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
People's Republic of China
Regulated By
-
Language Academy of Nepal
Interesting Facts
- Sanskrit language has highest number of vocabularies than any other language.
- Sanskrit Language has proved to help in speech therapy, also it increases concentration and helps to learn maths and science better.
- 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
Old German Language
Hindi
Derived From
Prakrit Language
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
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Scripts
Devanagari
Devanagari
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hello
नमस्कारः (namaskāraḥ)
नमस्ते (namaste)
Thank You
धन्यवादाः (dhanyawādāh)
धन्यवाद (dhanyabad)
How Are You?
कथमस्ति भवान् (kathamasti bhawān)
तिमीलाई कस्तो छ? (timi lai kasto cha?)
Good Night
शुभरात्री (shubharātrī)
शुभ रात्री (subha ratri)
Good Evening
शुभः सायंकालः
शुभ सन्ध्या (subha sandhya)
Good Afternoon
शुभ दुपार
Good afternoon
Good Morning
सुप्रभातम् (suprabhātam)
शुभ प्रभात (subha prabhat)
Please
कृपया (kripayā)
कृपया
Sorry
कृपया क्षम्यताम् (kripayā kshamyatām)
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
Bye
पुनः मिलामः(punah milamah)
नमस्ते (namaste)
I Love You
त्वामनुरजामि (twāmanurajāmi)
म तपाइलाइ माया गर्छु। (ma tapainlai maya garchu)
Excuse Me
कृपया क्षम्यताम् (kripayā kshamyatām)
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
Dialect 1
Not present
Doteli
Dialect 2
Not present
Bajhangi
Where They Speak
-
India, Nepal
Dialect 3
Not present
Baitadeli
Second Language Speakers
-
Native Name
संस्कृतम् (saṃskṛtam)
नेपाली (nēpālī)
Alternative Names
Saṃskṛtam, Sanskritam
Eastern Pahadi, Gorkhali, Gurkhali, Khaskura, Nepalese, Parbate
French Name
sanskrit
népalais
German Name
Sanskrit
Nepali
Pronunciation
[səmskr̩t̪əm]
[neˈpali]
Ethnicity
Sanskrit speakers
Gurkha, Khas people, Madhesi and Tharu
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Indo-Iranian
Early Forms
Vedic Sanskrit
Khas language, Gurkhali, Parbatiya, Dzongkha Lhotshammikha
Standard Forms
Sanskrit
Nepali
Signed Forms
-
Signed Nepali
Scope
Individual
Individual, Macrolanguage
Glottocode
sans1269
nepa1254
Linguasphere
No data available
12
Language Type
Ancient
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
Agglutinative
Sanskrit and Nepali Speaking population
Sanskrit and Nepali speaking population is one of the factors based on which Sanskrit and Nepali languages can be compared. The total count of Sanskrit and Nepali Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Sanskrit language is 0.01 % 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 Sanskrit and Nepali on Sanskrit vs Nepali where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Sanskrit and Nepali Language Codes
Sanskrit and Nepali language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Sanskrit and Nepali Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.