Countries
European Union, Finland, Nordic Council, Sweden
India, Nepal
Total No. Of Countries
42
0
46
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National Language
Sweden
Nepal
Second Language
Finland
Republic of Brazil
Speaking Continents
Antartica, Europe
Asia
Minority Language
Australia, Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, Netherlands, Spain, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States of America
People's Republic of China
Regulated By
Institute for the Languages of Finland, Swedish Academy, Swedish Language Council
Language Academy of Nepal
Interesting Facts
- In Swedish language, article comes after noun.
- Most of the words in Swedish language began "S" than any other letter.
- 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
Norwegian and Danish Language
Hindi
Derived From
Old Norse Language
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2948
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
912
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
1836
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Devanagari
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
66
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
hej
नमस्ते (namaste)
Thank You
tacka dig
धन्यवाद (dhanyabad)
How Are You?
hur mår du
तिमीलाई कस्तो छ? (timi lai kasto cha?)
Good Night
godnatt
शुभ रात्री (subha ratri)
Good Evening
god kväll
शुभ सन्ध्या (subha sandhya)
Good Afternoon
god eftermiddag
Good afternoon
Good Morning
god morgon
शुभ प्रभात (subha prabhat)
Please
vänligen
कृपया
Sorry
ledsen
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
Bye
hej då
नमस्ते (namaste)
I Love You
jag älskar dig
म तपाइलाइ माया गर्छु। (ma tapainlai maya garchu)
Excuse Me
ursäkta mig
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
Dialect 1
Dialects
Doteli
Where They Speak
Gabon
Nepal
How Many People Speak
78,000,000.00790,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Dialects
Bajhangi
Where They Speak
Georgia
India, Nepal
How Many People Speak
78,000,000.0017,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Dialects
Baitadeli
Where They Speak
France
Nepal
How Many People Speak
96,000,000.0017,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
7912
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
15.00 million30.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.13 %0.25 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
8.70 million25.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
5.00 million5.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Svenska
नेपाली (nēpālī)
Alternative Names
Ruotsi, Svenska
Eastern Pahadi, Gorkhali, Gurkhali, Khaskura, Nepalese, Parbate
French Name
suédois
népalais
German Name
Schwedisch
Nepali
Pronunciation
[ˈsvɛ̂nskâ]
[neˈpali]
Ethnicity
Swedes, Finland Swedes
Gurkha, Khas people, Madhesi and Tharu
Origin
13th Century
19 BC
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Germanic
Indo-Iranian
Branch
Northern (Scandinavian)
Indic
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Swedish
Khas language, Gurkhali, Parbatiya, Dzongkha Lhotshammikha
Standard Forms
Standard Swedish
Nepali
Language Position
8959
1
120
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Signed Forms
Tecknad svenska, ("Signed Swedish")
Signed Nepali
Scope
Individual
Individual, Macrolanguage
ISO 639 1
sv
ne
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
swe
nep
ISO 639 2/B
swe
nep
ISO 639 3
swe
npi
ISO 639 6
swe
nep
Glottocode
swed1254
nepa1254
Linguasphere
52-AAA-ck to -cw
12
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
-
Agglutinative