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Nepali and Arabic


Countries

Countries
Algeria, Bahrain, Chad, Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates, Yemen   
India, Nepal   

Total No. Of Countries
23   
4
2   
13

National Language
Algeria, Bahrain, Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, United Arab Emirates, Yemen   
Nepal   

Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries   
Republic of Brazil   

Speaking Continents
Africa, Asia   
Asia   

Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries   
People's Republic of China   

Regulated By
Academy of the Arabic Language, Arabic Language International Council   
Language Academy of Nepal   

Interesting Facts
  • Arabic is 5th common language in world.
  • Classical Arabic is the language of Quran and also it is official language. Classical Arabic is the only way to learn Arabic language in academic way and it does not change.
  
  • 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
Amharic and Hebrew   
Hindi   

Derived From
Not Available   
Sanskrit Language   

Alphabets

Alphabets in
Arabic.jpg#200   
Nepali-Alphabets.jpg#200   

Alphabets
28   
10
48   
28

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
8   
5
12   
9

How Many Consonants
28   
18
36   
26

Scripts
Arabic   
Devanagari   

Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal   
Left-To-Right, Horizontal   

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
4   
3
6   
5

Time Taken to Learn
88 weeks   
13
44 weeks   
11

Greetings

Hello
مرحبا   
नमस्ते (namaste)   

Thank You
شكرا   
धन्यवाद (dhanyabad)   

How Are You?
كيف حالك؟   
तिमीलाई कस्तो छ? (timi lai kasto cha?)   

Good Night
تصبح على خير   
शुभ रात्री (subha ratri)   

Good Evening
مساء الخير   
शुभ सन्ध्या (subha sandhya)   

Good Afternoon
مساء الخير   
Good afternoon   

Good Morning
صباح الخير   
शुभ प्रभात (subha prabhat)   

Please
من فضلك   
कृपया   

Sorry
آسف   
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)   

Bye
وداعا   
नमस्ते (namaste)   

I Love You
أحبك   
म तपाइलाइ माया गर्छु। (ma tapainlai maya garchu)   

Excuse Me
اعذرني   
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)   

Dialects

Dialect 1
Maghrebi   
Doteli   

Where They Speak
Algeria, Libya, Maghreb, Morocco, Tunisia   
Nepal   

How Many People Speak
Not Available   
790,000.00   
30

Dialect 2
Sudanese   
Bajhangi   

Where They Speak
Sudan   
India, Nepal   

How Many People Speak
17,000,000.00   
6
Not Available   

Dialect 3
Levantine   
Baitadeli   

Where They Speak
Cyprus, Levant   
Nepal   

How Many People Speak
21,000,000.00   
3
Not Available   

Total No. Of Dialects
26   
22
12   
12

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
452.00 million   
4
30.00 million   
36

Speaking Population
4.43 %   
6
0.25 %   
99+

Native Speakers
206.00 million   
6
25.00 million   
32

Second Language Speakers
246.00 million   
2
5.00 million   
29

Native Name
(al arabiya) العربية   
नेपाली (nēpālī)   

Alternative Names
Al-’Arabiyya, Al-Fusha, Literary Arabic   
Eastern Pahadi, Gorkhali, Gurkhali, Khaskura, Nepalese, Parbate   

French Name
arabe   
népalais   

German Name
Arabisch   
Nepali   

Pronunciation
/al ʕarabijja/, /ʕarabi/   
Not Available   

Ethnicity
Arabs   
Gurkha, Khas people, Madhesi and Tharu   

History

Origin
512 CE   
19 BC   

Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family, Semitic Family   
Indo-European Family   

Subgroup
Semitic   
Indo-Iranian   

Branch
North Arabic   
Indic   

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
No early forms   
Khas language, Gurkhali, Parbatiya, Dzongkha Lhotshammikha   

Standard Forms
Modern Standard Arabic   
Nepali   

Language Position
25   
21
59   
99+

Signed Forms
Signed Arabic   
Signed Nepali   

Scope
Macrolanguage   
Individual, Macrolanguage   

Code

ISO 639 1
ar   
ne   

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
ara   
nep   

ISO 639 2/B
ara   
nep   

ISO 639 3
ara   
npi   

ISO 639 6
Not Available   
Not Available   

Glottocode
arab1395   
nepa1254   

Linguasphere
12-AAC   
12   

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Living   
Living   

Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object   
Subject-Object-Verb   

Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic   
Agglutinative   

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All Arabic and Nepali Dialects

Most languages have dialects where each dialect differ from other dialect with respect to grammar and vocabulary. Here you will get to know all Arabic and Nepali dialects. Various dialects of Arabic and Nepali language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Arabic are spoken in different Arabic Speaking Countries whereas Nepali Dialects are spoken in different Nepali speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Arabic vs Nepali Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Arabic dialects include: Maghrebi, Sudanese. Nepali dialects include: Doteli , Bajhangi. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

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Arabic and Nepali Speaking population

Arabic and Nepali speaking population is one of the factors based on which Arabic and Nepali languages can be compared. The total count of Arabic and Nepali Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Arabic language is 4.43 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Nepali language is 0.25 %. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak Arabic and Nepali on Arabic vs Nepali where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Arabic and Nepali Language Codes

Arabic and Nepali language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Arabic and Nepali Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.

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