Countries
India
India, Nepal
Total No. Of Countries
12
0
46
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National Language
Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal
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
- Santali language was an oral language till nineteenth century.
- Before the invention of Santali alphabets, Santali was written with the Bengali or Odia alphabets.
- 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
Munda Language
Hindi
Derived From
-
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3048
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
612
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2136
9
60
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Scripts
Bengali, Devanagari, Latin, Ol Chiki, Oriya
Devanagari
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
66
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
Henda ho
नमस्ते (namaste)
Thank You
Adi Johar
धन्यवाद (dhanyabad)
How Are You?
Cet’leka menama?
तिमीलाई कस्तो छ? (timi lai kasto cha?)
Good Night
Boge Ninda
शुभ रात्री (subha ratri)
Good Evening
Boge Ayup’
शुभ सन्ध्या (subha sandhya)
Good Afternoon
संध्यायान
Good afternoon
Good Morning
Boge Setak’
शुभ प्रभात (subha prabhat)
Please
দয়া করে
कृपया
Sorry
দুঃখিত
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
Bye
Hariau
नमस्ते (namaste)
I Love You
ᱥᱟᱱᱛᱟᱲᱤ ᱯᱟᱹᱨᱥᱤ
म तपाइलाइ माया गर्छु। (ma tapainlai maya garchu)
Excuse Me
ᱥᱟᱱᱛᱟᱲ
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
Dialect 1
Mahali
Doteli
Where They Speak
India
Nepal
How Many People Speak
6,000,000.00790,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Not present
Bajhangi
Where They Speak
-
India, Nepal
How Many People Speak
6,000,000.0017,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Not present
Baitadeli
Where They Speak
-
Nepal
How Many People Speak
6,000,000.0017,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
112
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
6.30 million30.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.02 %0.25 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
6.30 million25.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
6.50 million5.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
संथाली (sãtʰālī)
नेपाली (nēpālī)
Alternative Names
Har, Hor, Samtali, Sandal, Sangtal, Santal, Santhali, Santhiali, Satar, Sentali, Sonthal
Eastern Pahadi, Gorkhali, Gurkhali, Khaskura, Nepalese, Parbate
French Name
santal
népalais
German Name
Santali
Nepali
Pronunciation
[sɑnˈtɑli]
[neˈpali]
Ethnicity
Santal and Teraibasi Santali
Gurkha, Khas people, Madhesi and Tharu
Origin
20th century
19 BC
Language Family
Austroasiatic Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
-
Indo-Iranian
Branch
-
Indic
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Khas language, Gurkhali, Parbatiya, Dzongkha Lhotshammikha
Standard Forms
Santali
Nepali
Language Position
4159
1
120
👆🏻
Signed Forms
Santali Sign Language
Signed Nepali
Scope
Individual
Individual, Macrolanguage
ISO 639 1
No data available
ne
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
sat
nep
ISO 639 2/B
sat
nep
ISO 639 3
sat
npi
ISO 639 6
sat
nep
Glottocode
sant1410
nepa1254
Linguasphere
No data available
12
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
-
Agglutinative