Countries
Wales
India, Nepal
Total No. Of Countries
12
0
46
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National Language
Wales
Nepal
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Republic of Brazil
Speaking Continents
Europe
Asia
Minority Language
Argentina, United Kingdom
People's Republic of China
Regulated By
Welsh Language Commissioner
Language Academy of Nepal
Interesting Facts
- One of the Celtic language still spoken with great numbers of speakers is Welsh language.
- Welsh was evolved from British , which was spoken by ancient Britons.
- 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
English Language
Hindi
Derived From
British Language
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2948
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
712
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2136
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Devanagari
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
46
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
30 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Helô
नमस्ते (namaste)
Thank You
Diolch
धन्यवाद (dhanyabad)
How Are You?
Sut ydych chi?
तिमीलाई कस्तो छ? (timi lai kasto cha?)
Good Night
Nos da
शुभ रात्री (subha ratri)
Good Evening
Noswaith dda
शुभ सन्ध्या (subha sandhya)
Good Afternoon
P'nawn da
Good afternoon
Good Morning
Bore da
शुभ प्रभात (subha prabhat)
Please
os gwelwch yn dda
कृपया
Sorry
Mae'n ddrwg gennym
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
Bye
Hwyl
नमस्ते (namaste)
I Love You
Dw i'n dy garu di
म तपाइलाइ माया गर्छु। (ma tapainlai maya garchu)
Excuse Me
Esgusodwch fi
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
Dialect 1
Patagonian Welsh
Doteli
Where They Speak
Argentina
Nepal
How Many People Speak
38,000.00790,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Y Wyndodeg
Bajhangi
Where They Speak
Gwynedd
India, Nepal
How Many People Speak
700,000.0017,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Y Bowyseg
Baitadeli
Where They Speak
Powys
Nepal
How Many People Speak
700,000.0017,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
812
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
7.40 million30.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.24 %0.25 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
7.40 million25.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
0.70 million5.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Cymraeg / Y Gymraeg
नेपाली (nēpālī)
Alternative Names
Cymraeg
Eastern Pahadi, Gorkhali, Gurkhali, Khaskura, Nepalese, Parbate
French Name
gallois
népalais
German Name
Kymrisch
Nepali
Pronunciation
[kəmˈrɑːɨɡ]
[neˈpali]
Ethnicity
Welsh people
Gurkha, Khas people, Madhesi and Tharu
Origin
9th Century
19 BC
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Celtic
Indo-Iranian
Branch
Brythonic
Indic
Language Forms
Early Forms
Common Brittonic, Old Welsh, Middle Welsh
Khas language, Gurkhali, Parbatiya, Dzongkha Lhotshammikha
Standard Forms
Welsh
Nepali
Language Position
3159
1
120
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Signed Forms
Welsh Sign Language
Signed Nepali
Scope
Individual
Individual, Macrolanguage
ISO 639 1
cy
ne
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
cym
nep
ISO 639 2/B
wel
nep
ISO 639 3
cym
npi
ISO 639 6
cym
nep
Glottocode
wels1247
nepa1254
Linguasphere
50-ABA
12
Types of Language
Language Type
Historical
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Verb-Subject-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
Agglutinative