Countries
India, Nepal
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan
National Language
Nepal
China, Taiwan
Second Language
Republic of Brazil
Republic of Brazil
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
People's Republic of China
Indonesia, Malaysia
Regulated By
Language Academy of Nepal
Chinese Language Standardization Council, National Commission on Language and Script Work, Promote Mandarin Council
Interesting Facts
- 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.
- Chinese language is tonal, since meaning of a word changes according to its tone.
- In Chinese language, there is no grammatical distinction between singular or plural, no declination of verbs according to tense, mood and aspect.
Similar To
Hindi
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Derived From
Sanskrit Language
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Alphabets in
Nepali-Alphabets.jpg#200
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Scripts
Devanagari
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Hello
नमस्ते (namaste)
您好 (Nín hǎo)
Thank You
धन्यवाद (dhanyabad)
谢谢 (Xièxiè)
How Are You?
तिमीलाई कस्तो छ? (timi lai kasto cha?)
你好吗？ (Nǐ hǎo ma?)
Good Night
शुभ रात्री (subha ratri)
晚安 (Wǎn'ān)
Good Evening
शुभ सन्ध्या (subha sandhya)
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)
Good Afternoon
Good afternoon
下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)
Good Morning
शुभ प्रभात (subha prabhat)
早安 (Zǎo ān)
Sorry
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
遗憾 (Yíhàn)
Bye
नमस्ते (namaste)
再见 (Zàijiàn)
I Love You
म तपाइलाइ माया गर्छु। (ma tapainlai maya garchu)
我爱你 (Wǒ ài nǐ)
Excuse Me
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
劳驾 (Láojià)
Dialect 1
Doteli
Mandarin
Where They Speak
Nepal
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan
Where They Speak
India, Nepal
China, United States of America
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Where They Speak
Nepal
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Native Name
नेपाली (nēpālī)
中文 (zhōngwén)
Alternative Names
Eastern Pahadi, Gorkhali, Gurkhali, Khaskura, Nepalese, Parbate
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French Name
népalais
chinois
German Name
Nepali
Chinesisch
Pronunciation
Not Available
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Ethnicity
Gurkha, Khas people, Madhesi and Tharu
Han
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Not Available
Branch
Indic
Not Available
Early Forms
Khas language, Gurkhali, Parbatiya, Dzongkha Lhotshammikha
No early forms
Standard Forms
Nepali
Standard Chinese
Signed Forms
Signed Nepali
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))
Scope
Individual, Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 6
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Glottocode
nepa1254
sini1245
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
Analytic, Isolating
All Nepali and Chinese Dialects
Most languages have dialects where each dialect differ from other dialect with respect to grammar and vocabulary. Here you will get to know all Nepali and Chinese dialects. Various dialects of Nepali and Chinese language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Nepali are spoken in different Nepali Speaking Countries whereas Chinese Dialects are spoken in different Chinese speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Nepali vs Chinese Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Nepali dialects include: Doteli, Bajhangi. Chinese dialects include: Mandarin , Wu. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.
Nepali and Chinese Speaking population
Nepali and Chinese speaking population is one of the factors based on which Nepali and Chinese languages can be compared. The total count of Nepali and Chinese Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Nepali language is 0.25 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Chinese language is 16.00 %. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak Nepali and Chinese on Nepali vs Chinese where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Nepali and Chinese Language Codes
Nepali and Chinese language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Nepali and Chinese Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.