Countries
Barbados, Belize, Botswana, Cameroon, Canada, Dominica, Fiji, Ghana, India, Ireland, Jamaica, Kenya, Malta, Mauritius, Micronesia, Nigeria, Pakistan, Philippines, Rwanda, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Samoa, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Somaliland, South Africa, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania, Trinidad and Tobago, Uganda, United Kingdom, Zambia, Zimbabwe
  
India, Nepal
  
National Language
Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bermuda, Cayman Islands, Gibraltar, Grenada, Guam, Guyana, Jersey, Montserrat, Nauru, Singapore, Trinidad and Tobago, United Kingdom, United States of America
  
Nepal
  
Second Language
India, Nigeria, Pakistan, Singapore
  
Republic of Brazil
  
Speaking Continents
Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, North America, Oceania, South America
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
South Africa
  
People's Republic of China
  
Regulated By
Not Available
  
Language Academy of Nepal
  
Interesting Facts
- Most of the English words begin with the letter S than any other letter.
- English is third most commonly spoken language in the world.
  
- 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
Not Available
  
Hindi
  
Derived From
Latin
  
Sanskrit Language
  
Alphabets in
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Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Devanagari
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Hello
  
नमस्ते (namaste)
  
Thank You
Thank you
  
धन्यवाद (dhanyabad)
  
How Are You?
How are you?
  
तिमीलाई कस्तो छ? (timi lai kasto cha?)
  
Good Night
Good Night
  
शुभ रात्री (subha ratri)
  
Good Evening
Good Evening
  
शुभ सन्ध्या (subha sandhya)
  
Good Afternoon
Good Afternoon
  
Good afternoon
  
Good Morning
Good Morning
  
शुभ प्रभात (subha prabhat)
  
Please
Please
  
कृपया
  
Sorry
Sorry
  
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
  
Bye
Bye
  
नमस्ते (namaste)
  
I Love You
I love you
  
म तपाइलाइ माया गर्छु। (ma tapainlai maya garchu)
  
Excuse Me
Excuse Me
  
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
  
Dialect 1
American English
  
Doteli
  
Where They Speak
United States of America
  
Nepal
  
How Many People Speak
225,000,000.00
  
3
Dialect 2
Hiberno-English
  
Bajhangi
  
Where They Speak
Republic of Ireland, United Kingdom
  
India, Nepal
  
How Many People Speak
4,500,000.00
  
15
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Welsh English
  
Baitadeli
  
Where They Speak
United Kingdom
  
Nepal
  
How Many People Speak
2,500,000.00
  
14
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
1,200.00 million
  
1
30.00 million
  
36
Native Speakers
400.00 million
  
3
25.00 million
  
32
Second Language Speakers
400.00 million
  
1
5.00 million
  
29
Native Name
English
  
नेपाली (nēpālī)
  
Alternative Names
Not Available
  
Eastern Pahadi, Gorkhali, Gurkhali, Khaskura, Nepalese, Parbate
  
French Name
anglais
  
népalais
  
German Name
Englisch
  
Nepali
  
Pronunciation
/ˈɪŋɡlɪʃ/
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Not Available
  
Gurkha, Khas people, Madhesi and Tharu
  
Origin
5th Century AD
  
19 BC
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
Indo-Iranian
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Indic
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old English, Middle English, Early Modern English and English
  
Khas language, Gurkhali, Parbatiya, Dzongkha Lhotshammikha
  
Standard Forms
Standard English
  
Nepali
  
Signed Forms
Signed English
  
Signed Nepali
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual, Macrolanguage
  
ISO 639 1
en
  
ne
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
eng
  
nep
  
ISO 639 2/B
eng
  
nep
  
ISO 639 3
eng
  
npi
  
ISO 639 6
engs
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
stan1293
  
nepa1254
  
Linguasphere
52-ABA
  
12
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Fusional, Isolating, Synthetic
  
Agglutinative