Countries
India, Nepal
  
Barbados, Belize, Botswana, Cameroon, Canada, Dominica, Fiji, Ghana, India, Ireland, Jamaica, Kenya, Malta, Mauritius, Micronesia, Nigeria, Pakistan, Philippines, Rwanda, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Samoa, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Somaliland, South Africa, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania, Trinidad and Tobago, Uganda, United Kingdom, Zambia, Zimbabwe
  
National Language
Nepal
  
Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bermuda, Cayman Islands, Gibraltar, Grenada, Guam, Guyana, Jersey, Montserrat, Nauru, Singapore, Trinidad and Tobago, United Kingdom, United States of America
  
Second Language
Republic of Brazil
  
India, Nigeria, Pakistan, Singapore
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, North America, Oceania, South America
  
Minority Language
People's Republic of China
  
South Africa
  
Regulated By
Language Academy of Nepal
  
Not Available
  
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.
  
- Most of the English words begin with the letter S than any other letter.
- English is third most commonly spoken language in the world.
  
Similar To
Hindi
  
Not Available
  
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
  
Latin
  
Alphabets in
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Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Devanagari
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
नमस्ते (namaste)
  
Hello
  
Thank You
धन्यवाद (dhanyabad)
  
Thank you
  
How Are You?
तिमीलाई कस्तो छ? (timi lai kasto cha?)
  
How are you?
  
Good Night
शुभ रात्री (subha ratri)
  
Good Night
  
Good Evening
शुभ सन्ध्या (subha sandhya)
  
Good Evening
  
Good Afternoon
Good afternoon
  
Good Afternoon
  
Good Morning
शुभ प्रभात (subha prabhat)
  
Good Morning
  
Please
कृपया
  
Please
  
Sorry
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
  
Sorry
  
Bye
नमस्ते (namaste)
  
Bye
  
I Love You
म तपाइलाइ माया गर्छु। (ma tapainlai maya garchu)
  
I love you
  
Excuse Me
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
  
Excuse Me
  
Dialect 1
Doteli
  
American English
  
Where They Speak
Nepal
  
United States of America
  
How Many People Speak
225,000,000.00
  
3
Dialect 2
Bajhangi
  
Hiberno-English
  
Where They Speak
India, Nepal
  
Republic of Ireland, United Kingdom
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
4,500,000.00
  
15
Dialect 3
Baitadeli
  
Welsh English
  
Where They Speak
Nepal
  
United Kingdom
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
2,500,000.00
  
14
How Many People Speak?
30.00 million
  
36
1,200.00 million
  
1
Native Speakers
25.00 million
  
32
400.00 million
  
3
Second Language Speakers
5.00 million
  
29
400.00 million
  
1
Native Name
नेपाली (nēpālī)
  
English
  
Alternative Names
Eastern Pahadi, Gorkhali, Gurkhali, Khaskura, Nepalese, Parbate
  
Not Available
  
French Name
népalais
  
anglais
  
German Name
Nepali
  
Englisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
/ˈɪŋɡlɪʃ/
  
Ethnicity
Gurkha, Khas people, Madhesi and Tharu
  
Not Available
  
Origin
19 BC
  
5th Century 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 English, Middle English, Early Modern English and English
  
Standard Forms
Nepali
  
Standard English
  
Signed Forms
Signed Nepali
  
Signed English
  
Scope
Individual, Macrolanguage
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
ne
  
en
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
nep
  
eng
  
ISO 639 2/B
nep
  
eng
  
ISO 639 3
npi
  
eng
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
engs
  
Glottocode
nepa1254
  
stan1293
  
Linguasphere
12
  
52-ABA
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
  
Analytic, Fusional, Isolating, Synthetic