Countries
India, Nepal
  
India
  
National Language
Nepal
  
India
  
Second Language
Republic of Brazil
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
People's Republic of China
  
Great Britain, Kenya, Malawi, Oman, Pakistan, Tanzania, Uganda, United States of America, Zambia
  
Regulated By
Language Academy of Nepal
  
NA
  
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.
  
- Gujarati was the first language of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi("Father of the Nation of India") and Vallabhbhai Patel ("Iron Man of India").
- Most of the words in Gujarati language are adopted from Sanskrit.
  
Similar To
Hindi
  
Bengali Language
  
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
  
Sanskrit Language
  
Alphabets in
Nepali-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Gujarati-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Devanagari
  
Devanagari
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Language Levels
Not Available
  
Hello
नमस्ते (namaste)
  
નમસ્તે (namaste)
  
Thank You
धन्यवाद (dhanyabad)
  
ધન્યવાદ (dhanvaad)
  
How Are You?
तिमीलाई कस्तो छ? (timi lai kasto cha?)
  
કેમ છો (kem cho?)
  
Good Night
शुभ रात्री (subha ratri)
  
શુભ રાત્રે (shub rātrē)
  
Good Evening
शुभ सन्ध्या (subha sandhya)
  
સાંજે સારી (sān̄jē sārī)
  
Good Afternoon
Good afternoon
  
સારા બપોરે (sārā bapōrē)
  
Good Morning
शुभ प्रभात (subha prabhat)
  
સુ પ્રભાત (su prabhat)
  
Please
कृपया
  
કૃપા કરીને(Kr̥pā karīnē)
  
Sorry
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
  
મન્ને મફ કરો (manne maaf karo)
  
Bye
नमस्ते (namaste)
  
બાય (Bāya)
  
I Love You
म तपाइलाइ माया गर्छु। (ma tapainlai maya garchu)
  
હું તને પ્રેમ કરુ છું (hūṃ tane prem karū chūṃ)
  
Excuse Me
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
  
માફ કરશો (Māpha karaśō)
  
Dialect 1
Doteli
  
Kathiyawadi
  
Where They Speak
Nepal
  
India, Mauritius, Oman, Pakistan, Singapore, South Africa, Tanzania, United Kingdom, United States of America
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Bajhangi
  
Kharwa
  
Where They Speak
India, Nepal
  
India, Mauritius, Pakistan, Singapore, United Kingdom, United States of America
  
Dialect 3
Baitadeli
  
Not Available
  
Where They Speak
Nepal
  
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
30.00 million
  
36
60.00 million
  
27
Native Speakers
25.00 million
  
32
50.00 million
  
22
Second Language Speakers
5.00 million
  
29
Not Available
  
Native Name
नेपाली (nēpālī)
  
ગુજરાતી (gujarātī)
  
Alternative Names
Eastern Pahadi, Gorkhali, Gurkhali, Khaskura, Nepalese, Parbate
  
Gujerathi, Gujerati, Gujrathi
  
French Name
népalais
  
goudjrati
  
German Name
Nepali
  
Gujarati-Sprache
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
[ɡudʒəˈɾɑːt̪i]
  
Ethnicity
Gurkha, Khas people, Madhesi and Tharu
  
Gujaratis
  
Origin
19 BC
  
15
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
  
Indo-Iranian
  
Branch
Indic
  
Indic
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Khas language, Gurkhali, Parbatiya, Dzongkha Lhotshammikha
  
Old Gujarati
  
Standard Forms
Nepali
  
Modern Gujarati
  
Signed Forms
Signed Nepali
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual, Macrolanguage
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
ne
  
gu
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
nep
  
guj
  
ISO 639 2/B
nep
  
guj
  
ISO 639 3
npi
  
guj
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
nepa1254
  
guja1252
  
Linguasphere
12
  
No data available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
  
Not Available