1 Countries
1.1 Countries
India, Nepal
India, Nepal
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
1.4 Second Language
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
People's Republic of China
1.7 Regulated By
Not Available
Language Academy of Nepal
1.8 Interesting Facts
- Earlier, Maithili language was considered as the dialect of Hindi and Bengali, however in the year 2003 Maithili achieved an independent language status in India.
- Maithili has rich literature.
- 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
1.10 Derived From
Not Available
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
Not Available
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
3.2 Thank You
dhanyabad
धन्यवाद (dhanyabad)
3.3 How Are You?
Aahan kehan chhi ?
तिमीलाई कस्तो छ? (timi lai kasto cha?)
3.4 Good Night
Śubharātri
शुभ रात्री (subha ratri)
3.5 Good Evening
shubh sandhya
शुभ सन्ध्या (subha sandhya)
3.6 Good Afternoon
dopahar ke bad namaskar
Good afternoon
3.7 Good Morning
Suprabhaat
शुभ प्रभात (subha prabhat)
3.8 Please
3.9 Sorry
maf karai
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
3.10 Bye
3.11 I Love You
hawm ahāṃ se prem karechi
म तपाइलाइ माया गर्छु। (ma tapainlai maya garchu)
3.12 Excuse Me
kripaya
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
NA790,000.00
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
4.2.1 Where They Speak
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
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?
32.00 million30.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
27.00 million25.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
2.80 million5.00 million
0.01
400
5.3.2 Native Name
मैथिली (mɛtʰilī)
नेपाली (nēpālī)
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Apabhramsa, Bihari, Maitili, Maitli, Methli, Tirahutia, Tirhuti, Tirhutia
Eastern Pahadi, Gorkhali, Gurkhali, Khaskura, Nepalese, Parbate
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
Not Available
Not Available
5.5 Ethnicity
Maithil
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