1 Countries
1.1 Countries
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
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
Palau
1.7 Regulated By
Language Academy of Nepal
Agency for Cultural Affairs (文化庁) at the Ministry of Education
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.
- In Japanese Language, there are 4 different ways to address people: kun, chan, san and sama.
- There are many words in Japanese language which end with vowel letter, which determines the structure and rhythm of Japanese.
1.9 Similar To
1.10 Derived From
Sanskrit Language
Not Available
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
2.5 Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
2.6 Hard to Learn
2.6.1 Language Levels
2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
नमस्ते (namaste)
こんにちは (Kon'nichiwa)
3.2 Thank You
धन्यवाद (dhanyabad)
ありがとう (Arigatō)
3.3 How Are You?
तिमीलाई कस्तो छ? (timi lai kasto cha?)
お元気ですか (O genki desu ka?)
3.4 Good Night
शुभ रात्री (subha ratri)
おやすみなさい (Oyasuminasai)
3.5 Good Evening
शुभ सन्ध्या (subha sandhya)
こんばんは (Konbanwa)
3.6 Good Afternoon
Good afternoon
こんにちは (Konnichiwa!)
3.7 Good Morning
शुभ प्रभात (subha prabhat)
おはよう (Ohayō)
3.8 Please
कृपया
お願いします (Onegaishimasu)
3.9 Sorry
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
ごめんなさい (Gomen'nasai)
3.10 Bye
नमस्ते (namaste)
さようなら (Sayōnara)
3.11 I Love You
म तपाइलाइ माया गर्छु। (ma tapainlai maya garchu)
愛しています (Aishiteimasu)
3.12 Excuse Me
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
すみません (Sumimasen)
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
790,000.001,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
4.2.1 Where They Speak
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
4.3 Dialect 3
4.3.1 Where They Speak
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
30.00 million128.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
25.00 million128.00 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
Not Available
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
Not Available
/nihoɴɡo/: [nihõŋɡo], [nihõŋŋo]
5.5 Ethnicity
Gurkha, Khas people, Madhesi and Tharu
Japanese (Yamato)
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Indo-European Family
Japonic 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
Old Japanese, Early Middle Japanese, Late Middle Japanese and Early Modern Japanese
6.3.2 Standard Forms
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Signed Nepali
Signed Japanese
6.4 Scope
Individual, Macrolanguage
Individual
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
Subject-Object-Verb
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
Agglutinative, Synthetic