1 Countries
1.1 Countries
India, No official status
India, Nepal
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
1.4 Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Republic of Brazil
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
Fiji, Guyana, Jamaica, Mauritius, Nepal, Pakistan, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago
People's Republic of China
1.7 Regulated By
Not Available
Language Academy of Nepal
1.8 Interesting Facts
- Bhojpuri was anciently written in Kaithi scripts.
- In Mughal Era, Kaithi script was used in administrative purposes for writing in Bhojpuri language.
- 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
Maithili and Magahi
Hindi
1.10 Derived From
Sanskrit Language
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
2.5 Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
2.6 Hard to Learn
2.6.1 Language Levels
2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
प्रणाम (prannam)
नमस्ते (namaste)
3.2 Thank You
धन्वाद (dhanvaad)
धन्यवाद (dhanyabad)
3.3 How Are You?
का हाल बा? (kaa haal ba?)
तिमीलाई कस्तो छ? (timi lai kasto cha?)
3.4 Good Night
राम राम (raam raam)
शुभ रात्री (subha ratri)
3.5 Good Evening
राम राम (raam raam)
शुभ सन्ध्या (subha sandhya)
3.6 Good Afternoon
राम राम (raam raam)
Good afternoon
3.7 Good Morning
राम राम (raam raam)
शुभ प्रभात (subha prabhat)
3.8 Please
मेहरबानी करके (meharbani karke)
कृपया
3.9 Sorry
माफ़ करीं (maaf karin)
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
3.10 Bye
प्रणाम (prannam)
नमस्ते (namaste)
3.11 I Love You
हम तोहसे प्यार करेनी (hum tohse pyaar kareni)
म तपाइलाइ माया गर्छु। (ma tapainlai maya garchu)
3.12 Excuse Me
माफ़ करीं (maaf karin)
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Caribbean Hindustani
Doteli
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Guyana, Jamaica, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago
Nepal
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
16,000.00790,000.00
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Australia, Canada, New Zealand, United Kingdom, United States of America
India, Nepal
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
380,000.00NA
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
4.3.1 Where They Speak
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
40.00 million30.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
40.00 million25.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
5.3.2 Native Name
भोजपुरी (bʰojpurī)
नेपाली (nēpālī)
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Bajpuri, Bhojapuri, Bhozpuri, Bihari, Deswali, Khotla, Piscimas
Eastern Pahadi, Gorkhali, Gurkhali, Khaskura, Nepalese, Parbate
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
/boʊdʒˈpʊəri/
Not Available
5.5 Ethnicity
Not Available
Gurkha, Khas people, Madhesi and Tharu
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
Not Available
Indo-Iranian
6.2.2 Branch
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
No early forms
Khas language, Gurkhali, Parbatiya, Dzongkha Lhotshammikha
6.3.2 Standard Forms
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Not Available
Signed Nepali
6.4 Scope
Individual
Individual, Macrolanguage
7 Code
7.1 ISO 639 1
7.2 ISO 639 2
7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
7.3 ISO 639 3
7.4 ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
7.5 Glottocode
7.6 Linguasphere
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
Subject-Object-Verb
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
Agglutinative