Countries
India, Nepal
  
Denmark, European Union, Faroe Islands, Greenland, Nordic Council
  
National Language
Nepal
  
Denmark, Faroe Islands, Germany, Greenland
  
Second Language
Republic of Brazil
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Europe, North America, South America
  
Minority Language
People's Republic of China
  
Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Germany, Greenland, Norway, Sweden, United States of America
  
Regulated By
Language Academy of Nepal
  
Dansk Sprognævn (Danish Language Committee)
  
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.
  
- Danish, Norwegian and Swedish are mutually intelligible, that means if u learn Danish is almost like learning three languages in one.
- There are 9 vowels in Danish language, which can be pronounced in 16 different ways.
  
Similar To
Hindi
  
Norwegian and Swedish
  
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
  
Old Norse Language
  
Alphabets in
Nepali-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Danish-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Devanagari
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
नमस्ते (namaste)
  
Hallo
  
Thank You
धन्यवाद (dhanyabad)
  
Mange tak
  
How Are You?
तिमीलाई कस्तो छ? (timi lai kasto cha?)
  
Hvordan har du det?
  
Good Night
शुभ रात्री (subha ratri)
  
God nat
  
Good Evening
शुभ सन्ध्या (subha sandhya)
  
God aften
  
Good Afternoon
Good afternoon
  
God eftermiddag
  
Good Morning
शुभ प्रभात (subha prabhat)
  
God morgen
  
Please
कृपया
  
Please
  
Sorry
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
  
Undskyld!
  
Bye
नमस्ते (namaste)
  
Farvel
  
I Love You
म तपाइलाइ माया गर्छु। (ma tapainlai maya garchu)
  
Jeg elsker dig
  
Excuse Me
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
  
Undskyld mig
  
Dialect 1
Doteli
  
Scanian
  
Where They Speak
Nepal
  
Sweden
  
Dialect 2
Bajhangi
  
Jutlandic
  
Where They Speak
India, Nepal
  
Denmark
  
Dialect 3
Baitadeli
  
Bornholmsk
  
Where They Speak
Nepal
  
Island of Bornholm
  
How Many People Speak?
30.00 million
  
36
5.50 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
25.00 million
  
32
5.50 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
5.00 million
  
29
Not Available
  
Native Name
नेपाली (nēpālī)
  
dansk
  
Alternative Names
Eastern Pahadi, Gorkhali, Gurkhali, Khaskura, Nepalese, Parbate
  
Dansk, Rigsdansk
  
French Name
népalais
  
danois
  
German Name
Nepali
  
Dänisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
[d̥ænˀsɡ̊]
  
Ethnicity
Gurkha, Khas people, Madhesi and Tharu
  
Danish people or Danes
  
Origin
19 BC
  
c. 1100 AD
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
  
Not Available
  
Branch
Indic
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Khas language, Gurkhali, Parbatiya, Dzongkha Lhotshammikha
  
Old Danish, Early Modern Danish
  
Standard Forms
Nepali
  
Rigsdansk
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Signed Nepali
  
Signed Danish
  
Scope
Individual, Macrolanguage
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
ne
  
da
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
nep
  
dan
  
ISO 639 2/B
nep
  
dan
  
ISO 639 3
npi
  
dan
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
nepa1254
  
dani1284
  
Linguasphere
12
  
5 2-AAA-bf & -ca to -cj
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
  
Fusional