1 Countries
1.1 Countries
India, Nepal
India, Karnataka, India
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
1.4 Second Language
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
People's Republic of China
Andra Pradesh, Goa, kerala, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Telangana
1.7 Regulated By
Language Academy of Nepal
Various academies and the Government of Karnataka
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.
- Kannada is the third oldest language after Sanskrit and Tamil of India
- Kannada language is only Indian language which got maximum i.e. 8 GyanaPeetha Awards.
1.9 Similar To
1.10 Derived From
Sanskrit Language
Sanskrit Language
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
Devanagari
Kannada Script
2.5 Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
2.6 Hard to Learn
2.6.1 Language Levels
2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
नमस्ते (namaste)
ಹಲೋ (Halō)
3.2 Thank You
धन्यवाद (dhanyabad)
ಧನ್ಯವಾದಗಳು (Dhan'yavādagaḷu)
3.3 How Are You?
तिमीलाई कस्तो छ? (timi lai kasto cha?)
ನೀವು ಹೇಗಿದ್ದೀರಿ? (Nīvu hēgiddīri?)
3.4 Good Night
शुभ रात्री (subha ratri)
ಶುಭ ರಾತ್ರಿ (Śubha rātri)
3.5 Good Evening
शुभ सन्ध्या (subha sandhya)
ಶುಭ ಸಂಜೆ (Śubha san̄je)
3.6 Good Afternoon
Good afternoon
ಉತ್ತಮ ಮಧ್ಯಾಹ್ನ (Uttama madhyāhna)
3.7 Good Morning
शुभ प्रभात (subha prabhat)
ಶುಭೋದಯ (Śubhōdaya)
3.8 Please
कृपया
ದಯವಿಟ್ಟು (Dayaviṭṭu)
3.9 Sorry
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
ಕ್ಷಮಿಸಿ (Kṣamisi)
3.10 Bye
नमस्ते (namaste)
ಬೈ (Bai)
3.11 I Love You
म तपाइलाइ माया गर्छु। (ma tapainlai maya garchu)
ನಾನು ನಿನ್ನ ಪ್ರೀತಿಸುತ್ತೇನೆ (Nānu ninna prītisuttēne)
3.12 Excuse Me
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
ಕ್ಷಮಿಸಿ (kshamisi)
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Nepal
Tamil Nadu, The Nilgiris
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
790,000.00540,000.00
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
Nepal
Andra Pradesh, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
NA220,000.00
1400
96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
30.00 million49.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
25.00 million38.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
5.00 million11.00 million
0.01
400
5.3.2 Native Name
नेपाली (nēpālī)
ಕನ್ನಡ (kannaḍa)
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Eastern Pahadi, Gorkhali, Gurkhali, Khaskura, Nepalese, Parbate
Banglori, Canarese, Havyaka, Kanarese, Madrassi
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
Not Available
[ˈkʌnnəɖɑː]
5.5 Ethnicity
Gurkha, Khas people, Madhesi and Tharu
Kannadiga
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Indo-European Family
Dravidian 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 Kannada, Kannada
6.3.2 Standard Forms
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Signed Nepali
Indian Signing System (ISS)
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
Not Available
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
Not Available