Countries
Croatia, European Union, Italy, San Marino, Slovenia, Switzerland, Vatican City
  
India, Nepal
  
National Language
Italy, San Marino, Switzerland, Vatican City
  
Nepal
  
Second Language
Albania, Croatia, Malta, Slovenia
  
Republic of Brazil
  
Speaking Continents
Europe
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Crimea, Eritrea, France, Libya, Monaco, Montenegro, Romania, Somalia
  
People's Republic of China
  
Regulated By
Accademia della Crusca (Academy of the bran)
  
Language Academy of Nepal
  
Interesting Facts
- One of the most romantic and melodic language in the history of the world is Italian.
- Italian Language is in the top three of the most widely spoken European languages in Europe.
  
- 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
French and Portuguese Languages
  
Hindi
  
Derived From
Latin
  
Sanskrit Language
  
Alphabets in
Italian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Nepali-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Devanagari
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
ciao
  
नमस्ते (namaste)
  
Thank You
grazie
  
धन्यवाद (dhanyabad)
  
How Are You?
Come stai?
  
तिमीलाई कस्तो छ? (timi lai kasto cha?)
  
Good Night
buonanotte
  
शुभ रात्री (subha ratri)
  
Good Evening
buonasera
  
शुभ सन्ध्या (subha sandhya)
  
Good Afternoon
buon pomeriggio
  
Good afternoon
  
Good Morning
buongiorno
  
शुभ प्रभात (subha prabhat)
  
Please
Per Favore
  
कृपया
  
Sorry
scusate
  
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
  
Bye
arrivederci
  
नमस्ते (namaste)
  
I Love You
Ti amo
  
म तपाइलाइ माया गर्छु। (ma tapainlai maya garchu)
  
Excuse Me
Scusami
  
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
  
Dialect 1
Romanesco
  
Doteli
  
Where They Speak
Lazio
  
Nepal
  
How Many People Speak
3,000,000.00
  
21
Dialect 2
Central Italian
  
Bajhangi
  
Where They Speak
Abruzzo, central Marche, Lazio, south Tuscany, Umbria
  
India, Nepal
  
How Many People Speak
5,000,000.00
  
14
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Tuscan
  
Baitadeli
  
Where They Speak
Corsica, Gallura, Haute-Corse, Sardinia, Tuscany, Umbria
  
Nepal
  
How Many People Speak?
78.00 million
  
21
30.00 million
  
36
Native Speakers
64.00 million
  
18
25.00 million
  
32
Second Language Speakers
14.00 million
  
20
5.00 million
  
29
Native Name
Italiano
  
नेपाली (nēpālī)
  
Alternative Names
Italiano
  
Eastern Pahadi, Gorkhali, Gurkhali, Khaskura, Nepalese, Parbate
  
French Name
italien
  
népalais
  
German Name
Italienisch
  
Nepali
  
Pronunciation
[itaˈljaːno]
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Italians
  
Gurkha, Khas people, Madhesi and Tharu
  
Origin
960 BC
  
19 BC
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Romance
  
Indo-Iranian
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Indic
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
Khas language, Gurkhali, Parbatiya, Dzongkha Lhotshammikha
  
Standard Forms
Italian
  
Nepali
  
Signed Forms
italiano segnato "Signed Italian" & italiano segnato esatto "Signed Exact Italian"
  
Signed Nepali
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual, Macrolanguage
  
ISO 639 1
it
  
ne
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
ita
  
nep
  
ISO 639 2/B
ita
  
nep
  
ISO 639 3
ita
  
npi
  
ISO 639 6
itas
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
ital1282
  
nepa1254
  
Linguasphere
51-AAA-q
  
12
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Agglutinative
  
Italian and Nepali Greetings
People around the world use different languages to interact with each other. Even if we cannot communicate fluently in any language, it will always be beneficial to know about some of the common greetings or phrases from that language. This is where Italian and Nepali greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Italian and Nepali language. Italian word for "Hello" is ciao or Nepali word for "Thank You" is धन्यवाद (dhanyabad). Find more of such common Italian Greetings and Nepali Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Italian vs Nepali Difficulty
The Italian vs Nepali difficulty level basically depends on the number of Italian Alphabets and Nepali Alphabets. Also the number of vowels and consonants in the language plays an important role in deciding the difficulty level of that language. The important points to be considered when we compare Italian and Nepali are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Italian and Nepali, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Italian is 24 weeks while to learn Nepali time required is 44 weeks.