Countries
India, Nepal
  
Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname
  
National Language
Nepal
  
Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname
  
Second Language
Republic of Brazil
  
South Africa
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Asia, Europe, North America, South America
  
Minority Language
People's Republic of China
  
France, Germany, Indonesia
  
Regulated By
Language Academy of Nepal
  
Nederlandse Taalunie (Dutch Language Union)
  
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.
  
- Dutch language consist of extremely long words. The longest dutch word in the dictionary is 53 letters long.
- There exists 75% borrowed words in Dutch language, and a lot of those are French, English and Hebrew.
  
Similar To
Hindi
  
German and English Languages
  
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Nepali-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Dutch-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)
  
dankjewel
  
How Are You?
तिमीलाई कस्तो छ? (timi lai kasto cha?)
  
hoe gaat het met je?
  
Good Night
शुभ रात्री (subha ratri)
  
goede Nacht
  
Good Evening
शुभ सन्ध्या (subha sandhya)
  
goedenavond
  
Good Afternoon
Good afternoon
  
goedemiddag
  
Good Morning
शुभ प्रभात (subha prabhat)
  
goedemorgen
  
Please
कृपया
  
alsjeblieft
  
Sorry
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
  
sorry
  
Bye
नमस्ते (namaste)
  
vaarwel
  
I Love You
म तपाइलाइ माया गर्छु। (ma tapainlai maya garchu)
  
Ik hou van jou
  
Excuse Me
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
  
pardon
  
Dialect 1
Doteli
  
Gronings
  
Where They Speak
Nepal
  
Netherlands
  
Dialect 2
Bajhangi
  
Low Saxon
  
Where They Speak
India, Nepal
  
Denmark, Germany, Netherlands
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
4,000,000.00
  
16
Dialect 3
Baitadeli
  
Limburgian
  
Where They Speak
Nepal
  
Belgium, Netherlands
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
1,300,000.00
  
18
How Many People Speak?
30.00 million
  
36
28.00 million
  
38
Native Speakers
25.00 million
  
32
22.00 million
  
35
Second Language Speakers
5.00 million
  
29
6.00 million
  
25
Native Name
नेपाली (nēpālī)
  
Nederlands
  
Alternative Names
Eastern Pahadi, Gorkhali, Gurkhali, Khaskura, Nepalese, Parbate
  
Hollands, Nederlands
  
French Name
népalais
  
néerlandais; flamand
  
German Name
Nepali
  
Niederländisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
[ˈneːdərlɑnts]
  
Ethnicity
Gurkha, Khas people, Madhesi and Tharu
  
Dutch people
  
Origin
19 BC
  
AD 450-500
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
  
Germanic
  
Branch
Indic
  
Western
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Khas language, Gurkhali, Parbatiya, Dzongkha Lhotshammikha
  
Old Dutch, Middle Dutch and Dutch
  
Standard Forms
Nepali
  
Standard Dutch
  
Signed Forms
Signed Nepali
  
Signed Dutch (Nederlands met Gebaren)
  
Scope
Individual, Macrolanguage
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
ne
  
nl
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
nep
  
nld
  
ISO 639 2/B
nep
  
dut
  
ISO 639 3
npi
  
nld
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
nepa1254
  
mode1257
  
Linguasphere
12
  
52-ACB-a
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Historical
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
  
Synthetic