1 Countries
1.1 Countries
India, Nepal
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
Nepal
1.4 Second Language
Republic of Brazil
1.5 Speaking Continents
Asia
1.6 Minority Language
People's Republic of China
1.7 Regulated By
Language Academy of Nepal
1.8 Interesting Facts
- 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.
1.9 Similar To
Hindi
1.10 Derived From
Sanskrit Language
2 Alphabets
2.1 Alphabets in
2.2 Alphabets
2.3 Phonology
2.3.1 How Many Vowels
2.3.2 How Many Consonants
2.4 Scripts
Devanagari
2.5 Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
2.6 Hard to Learn
2.6.1 Language Levels
2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks
Rank: 11 (Overall) ▶
3
88
3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
नमस्ते (namaste)
3.2 Thank You
धन्यवाद (dhanyabad)
3.3 How Are You?
तिमीलाई कस्तो छ? (timi lai kasto cha?)
3.4 Good Night
शुभ रात्री (subha ratri)
3.5 Good Evening
शुभ सन्ध्या (subha sandhya)
3.6 Good Afternoon
Good afternoon
3.7 Good Morning
शुभ प्रभात (subha prabhat)
3.8 Please
कृपया
3.9 Sorry
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
3.10 Bye
नमस्ते (namaste)
3.11 I Love You
म तपाइलाइ माया गर्छु। (ma tapainlai maya garchu)
3.12 Excuse Me
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Doteli
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Nepal
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
790,000.00
Rank: 30 (Overall) ▶
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
Bajhangi
4.2.1 Where They Speak
India, Nepal
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall) ▶
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
Baitadeli
4.3.1 Where They Speak
Nepal
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall) ▶
1400
96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
30.00 million
Rank: 36 (Overall) ▶
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
0.25 %
Rank: 41 (Overall) ▶
0.11
89
5.3 Native Speakers
25.00 million
Rank: 32 (Overall) ▶
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
5.00 million
Rank: 29 (Overall) ▶
0.01
400
5.3.2 Native Name
नेपाली (nēpālī)
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Eastern Pahadi, Gorkhali, Gurkhali, Khaskura, Nepalese, Parbate
5.3.4 French Name
népalais
5.3.5 German Name
Nepali
5.4 Pronunciation
Not Available
5.5 Ethnicity
Gurkha, Khas people, Madhesi and Tharu
6 History
6.1 Origin
19 BC
6.2 Language Family
Indo-European Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
6.2.2 Branch
Indic
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
Khas language, Gurkhali, Parbatiya, Dzongkha Lhotshammikha
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Nepali
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Signed Nepali
6.4 Scope
Individual, Macrolanguage
7 Code
7.1 ISO 639 1
ne
7.2 ISO 639 2
7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
nep
7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
nep
7.3 ISO 639 3
npi
7.4 ISO 639 6
Not Available
7.5 Glottocode
nepa1254
7.6 Linguasphere
12
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
Living
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative