1 Countries
1.1 Countries
India, Nepal
India, Pakistan
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
Nepal
Jammu and Kashmir, India
1.4 Second Language
Republic of Brazil
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
People's Republic of China
Not Available
1.7 Regulated By
Language Academy of Nepal
Not Available
1.8 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.
- Dogri is derived from Sanskrit, but it has absorbed a large number of Arabic, Persian and English words.
- Dogri language has its own grammar and dictionary. The grammar of dogri has very strong sanskrit base.
1.9 Similar To
Hindi
Hindi and Punjabi Languages
1.10 Derived From
Sanskrit Language
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
Devanagari
Devanagari, Gurmukhi, Perso-Arabic script
2.5 Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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
नमस्ते (namaste)
Ke aal aee
3.2 Thank You
धन्यवाद (dhanyabad)
dhanwaad
3.3 How Are You?
तिमीलाई कस्तो छ? (timi lai kasto cha?)
kiyaan oo ji
3.4 Good Night
शुभ रात्री (subha ratri)
shub ratri
3.5 Good Evening
शुभ सन्ध्या (subha sandhya)
shub ratri
3.6 Good Afternoon
Good afternoon
Not Available
3.7 Good Morning
शुभ प्रभात (subha prabhat)
su prabat
3.8 Please
3.9 Sorry
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
mere kaulan galti ooyyii
3.10 Bye
नमस्ते (namaste)
changa ji pher
3.11 I Love You
म तपाइलाइ माया गर्छु। (ma tapainlai maya garchu)
Minjo tere naal pyar hega
3.12 Excuse Me
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
gustakhi maaf
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Nepal
Himachal Pradesh, India
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
790,000.00100,000.00
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
4.2.1 Where They Speak
India, Nepal
Georgia, Himachal Pradesh, India
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
NA110,000.00
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
4.3.1 Where They Speak
Nepal
France, Himachal Pradesh, India
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
NA30,000.00
1400
96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
30.00 million4.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
25.00 million4.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
5.3.2 Native Name
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Eastern Pahadi, Gorkhali, Gurkhali, Khaskura, Nepalese, Parbate
Dhogaryali, Dogari, Dogri Jammu, Dogri Pahari, Dogri-Kangri, Dongari, Hindi Dogri, Tokkaru
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
Not Available
Not Available
5.5 Ethnicity
Gurkha, Khas people, Madhesi and Tharu
Dogras
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Not Available
6.2.2 Branch
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
Khas language, Gurkhali, Parbatiya, Dzongkha Lhotshammikha
No Early Forms
6.3.2 Standard Forms
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Signed Nepali
Not Available
6.4 Scope
Individual, Macrolanguage
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
Subject-Object-Verb
Not Available
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
Not Available