Countries
Israel
  
India, Nepal
  
National Language
Israel
  
Nepal
  
Second Language
Israel
  
Republic of Brazil
  
Speaking Continents
Africa, Asia, Europe
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Poland
  
People's Republic of China
  
Regulated By
Academy of the Hebrew Language
  
Language Academy of Nepal
  
Interesting Facts
- The original language of Bible is Hebrew.
- The men and women use different verbs in hebrew 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.
  
Similar To
Arabic and Aramaic languages
  
Hindi
  
Derived From
Aramaic Language
  
Sanskrit Language
  
Alphabets in
Hebrew-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Nepali-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
How Many Vowels
0
  
Scripts
Hebrew
  
Devanagari
  
Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
שלום (Shalom)
  
नमस्ते (namaste)
  
Thank You
תודה (Toda)
  
धन्यवाद (dhanyabad)
  
How Are You?
מה שלומך? (ma shlomxa)
  
तिमीलाई कस्तो छ? (timi lai kasto cha?)
  
Good Night
לילה טוב (Laila tov)
  
शुभ रात्री (subha ratri)
  
Good Evening
ערב טוב (Erev tov)
  
शुभ सन्ध्या (subha sandhya)
  
Good Afternoon
אחר צהריים טובים (Achar tzahara'im tovim)
  
Good afternoon
  
Good Morning
בוקר טוב (Boker tov)
  
शुभ प्रभात (subha prabhat)
  
Please
בבקשה (bevekshah)
  
कृपया
  
Sorry
סליחה! (Slicha)
  
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
  
Bye
להתראות (Lehitraot)
  
नमस्ते (namaste)
  
I Love You
אני אוהבת אותך (Ani ohevet otcha)
  
म तपाइलाइ माया गर्छु। (ma tapainlai maya garchu)
  
Excuse Me
בבקשה!
  
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
  
Dialect 1
Ashkenazi Hebrew
  
Doteli
  
Where They Speak
Israel
  
Nepal
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Samaritan Hebrew
  
Bajhangi
  
Where They Speak
Israel, Palestine
  
India, Nepal
  
Dialect 3
Yemenite Hebrew
  
Baitadeli
  
Where They Speak
Israel
  
Nepal
  
How Many People Speak?
9.00 million
  
99+
30.00 million
  
36
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
4.40 million
  
99+
25.00 million
  
32
Second Language Speakers
5.60 million
  
27
5.00 million
  
29
Native Name
עברית / עִבְרִית (ivrit)
  
नेपाली (nēpālī)
  
Alternative Names
Israeli, Ivrit
  
Eastern Pahadi, Gorkhali, Gurkhali, Khaskura, Nepalese, Parbate
  
French Name
hébreu
  
népalais
  
German Name
Hebräisch
  
Nepali
  
Pronunciation
[(ʔ)ivˈʁit] - [(ʔ)ivˈɾit]
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Not Available
  
Gurkha, Khas people, Madhesi and Tharu
  
Origin
1000 BC
  
19 BC
  
Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Semitic
  
Indo-Iranian
  
Branch
Canaanitic
  
Indic
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Biblical Hebrew, Mishnaic Hebrew, Medieval Hebrew, Hebrew
  
Khas language, Gurkhali, Parbatiya, Dzongkha Lhotshammikha
  
Standard Forms
Modern Hebrew
  
Nepali
  
Signed Forms
Signed Hebrew
  
Signed Nepali
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual, Macrolanguage
  
ISO 639 1
he
  
ne
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
heb
  
nep
  
ISO 639 2/B
heb
  
nep
  
ISO 639 3
heb
  
npi
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
hebr1246
  
nepa1254
  
Linguasphere
12-AAB-a
  
12
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object, Verb-Subject-Object
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Agglutinative