Countries
European Union, Slovenia
India, Nepal
Total No. Of Countries
22
0
46
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National Language
Austria, Croatia, Hungary, Italy, Slovenia
Nepal
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Republic of Brazil
Speaking Continents
Europe
Asia
Minority Language
Austria, Hungary, Italy
People's Republic of China
Regulated By
Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts
Language Academy of Nepal
Interesting Facts
- The Freising Monuments is the oldest preserved records of written Slovene from 10th century.
- The first Slovene book was printed in 1550.
- 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
Serbo-Croatian
Hindi
Derived From
-
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2548
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
512
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2036
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Devanagari
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
26
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Halo
नमस्ते (namaste)
Thank You
Hvala
धन्यवाद (dhanyabad)
How Are You?
Kako se imate?
तिमीलाई कस्तो छ? (timi lai kasto cha?)
Good Night
Lahko noč
शुभ रात्री (subha ratri)
Good Evening
Dober večer
शुभ सन्ध्या (subha sandhya)
Good Afternoon
Dober dan
Good afternoon
Good Morning
Dobro jutro
शुभ प्रभात (subha prabhat)
Please
Prosim
कृपया
Sorry
Oprostite
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
Bye
Nasvidenje
नमस्ते (namaste)
I Love You
Ljubim te
म तपाइलाइ माया गर्छु। (ma tapainlai maya garchu)
Excuse Me
Oprostite
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
Dialect 1
Prekmurje Slovene
Doteli
Where They Speak
Hungary, Slovenia
Nepal
How Many People Speak
80,000.00790,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Resian
Bajhangi
Where They Speak
Italy
India, Nepal
How Many People Speak
2,500,000.0017,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Styrian
Baitadeli
Where They Speak
Slovenia
Nepal
How Many People Speak
2,500,000.0017,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
4812
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
2.50 million30.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.03 %0.25 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
2.50 million25.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
2.00 million5.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Slovenščina
नेपाली (nēpālī)
Alternative Names
Slovenian, Slovenscina
Eastern Pahadi, Gorkhali, Gurkhali, Khaskura, Nepalese, Parbate
French Name
slovène
népalais
German Name
Slowenisch
Nepali
Pronunciation
[slɔˈʋèːnski ˈjɛ̀ːzik], [slɔˈʋèːnʃt͡ʃina]
[neˈpali]
Ethnicity
Slovenes
Gurkha, Khas people, Madhesi and Tharu
Origin
972-1093
19 BC
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
-
Indo-Iranian
Branch
-
Indic
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Khas language, Gurkhali, Parbatiya, Dzongkha Lhotshammikha
Standard Forms
Slovene
Nepali
Language Position
2859
1
120
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Signed Forms
Slovene Sign Language
Signed Nepali
Scope
Individual
Individual, Macrolanguage
ISO 639 1
sl
ne
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
slv
nep
ISO 639 2/B
slv
nep
ISO 639 3
slv
npi
ISO 639 6
slv
nep
Glottocode
slov1268
nepa1254
Linguasphere
53-AAA-f
12
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
Agglutinative