Countries
India, Nepal
  
Georgia
  
National Language
Nepal
  
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Israel, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine, United States of America
  
Second Language
Republic of Brazil
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Asia, Europe
  
Minority Language
People's Republic of China
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Regulated By
Language Academy of Nepal
  
Cabinet of Georgia
  
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.
  
- Georgian language has borrowed many words from Arabic, Persian and Turkish languages.
- Georgian language does not distinguish between 'he/him', 'she/her' and 'it', only masculine form is used.
  
Similar To
Hindi
  
Not Available
  
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
  
Anatolian Languages
  
Alphabets in
Nepali-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Georgian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Devanagari
  
Arabic, Georgian script
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
नमस्ते (namaste)
  
გამარჯობა (gamarjoba)
  
Thank You
धन्यवाद (dhanyabad)
  
გმადლობთ (gmadlobt)
  
How Are You?
तिमीलाई कस्तो छ? (timi lai kasto cha?)
  
როგორა ხარ? (rogora khar?)
  
Good Night
शुभ रात्री (subha ratri)
  
ძილი ნებისა (dzili nebisa)
  
Good Evening
शुभ सन्ध्या (subha sandhya)
  
საღამო მშვიდობისა (saghamo mshvidobisa)
  
Good Afternoon
Good afternoon
  
დილა მშვიდობისა (dila mshvidobisa)
  
Good Morning
शुभ प्रभात (subha prabhat)
  
დილა მშვიდობისა (dila mshvidobisa)
  
Please
कृपया
  
გთხოვთ (gt’khovt’)
  
Sorry
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
  
ბოდიში (bodishi)
  
Bye
नमस्ते (namaste)
  
ნახვამდის (nakhvamdis)
  
I Love You
म तपाइलाइ माया गर्छु। (ma tapainlai maya garchu)
  
მე შენ მიყვარხარ (me shen miq’varkhar)
  
Excuse Me
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
  
უკაცრავად (uk’atsravad)
  
Dialect 1
Doteli
  
Judaeo-Georgian
  
Where They Speak
Nepal
  
Belgium, Georgia, Israel, Russia, United States of America
  
Dialect 2
Bajhangi
  
Kartlian
  
Where They Speak
India, Nepal
  
Kartli
  
Dialect 3
Baitadeli
  
Pshavian
  
Where They Speak
Nepal
  
Pshavi
  
How Many People Speak?
30.00 million
  
36
4.30 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
25.00 million
  
32
4.30 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
5.00 million
  
29
Not Available
  
Native Name
नेपाली (nēpālī)
  
ქართული ენა
  
Alternative Names
Eastern Pahadi, Gorkhali, Gurkhali, Khaskura, Nepalese, Parbate
  
Common Kartvelian, Gruzinski, Kartuli
  
French Name
népalais
  
géorgien
  
German Name
Nepali
  
Georgisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
[kʰɑrtʰuli ɛnɑ]
  
Ethnicity
Gurkha, Khas people, Madhesi and Tharu
  
Georgians
  
Origin
19 BC
  
5th Century
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Kartvelian Family
  
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
  
Southern
  
Branch
Indic
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Khas language, Gurkhali, Parbatiya, Dzongkha Lhotshammikha
  
Old Georgian, Classical Old Georgian, Middle Georgian
  
Standard Forms
Nepali
  
Modern Georgian
  
Signed Forms
Signed Nepali
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual, Macrolanguage
  
Not Available
  
ISO 639 1
ne
  
ka
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
nep
  
kat
  
ISO 639 2/B
nep
  
geo
  
ISO 639 3
npi
  
kat
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
nepa1254
  
nucl1302
  
Linguasphere
12
  
No data available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Not Available
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Not Available
  
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
  
Agglutinative, Synthetic