1 Countries
1.1 Countries
India, Nepal
India, Pakistan
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
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.7 Regulated By
Language Academy of Nepal
Not Available
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.
- Kashmiri is the only Daridc language with literature which was originated more than seven hundred and fifty years ago.
- Kashmiri has thousands of loan words from Persian and Arabic Languages.
1.9 Similar To
Hindi
Hindi and Urdu Languages
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
Arabic, Perso-Arabic script
2.5 Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Right-To-Left, 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)
Assalām ‘alaikum
3.2 Thank You
धन्यवाद (dhanyabad)
शुकिया / شکریہ (shukriya)
3.3 How Are You?
तिमीलाई कस्तो छ? (timi lai kasto cha?)
तोहय छिवा वारय? (tohy ch'ivaa vaarai?)
3.4 Good Night
शुभ रात्री (subha ratri)
शबे खैर । (shabey k'eūr)
3.5 Good Evening
शुभ सन्ध्या (subha sandhya)
Not Available
3.6 Good Afternoon
Good afternoon
Hach t'ochoktiya
3.7 Good Morning
शुभ प्रभात (subha prabhat)
Hach ch'i
3.8 Please
3.9 Sorry
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
माफ कॅरिव । (maap' keuriv)
3.10 Bye
नमस्ते (namaste)
Khuda hāfiz
3.11 I Love You
म तपाइलाइ माया गर्छु। (ma tapainlai maya garchu)
be chus che seth mohabat karaan
3.12 Excuse Me
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
वय त्रॅाविव । (vat' treūviv)
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Nepal
India, Koshtawar valley, southeast kashmir, India
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
790,000.00NA
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
4.2.1 Where They Speak
India, Nepal
Pogul and Paristan valleys
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 million5.60 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
25.00 million5.42 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
5.3.2 Native Name
नेपाली (nēpālī)
कॉशुर / كٲشُر
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Eastern Pahadi, Gorkhali, Gurkhali, Khaskura, Nepalese, Parbate
Cashmeeree, Cashmiri, Kacmiri, Kaschemiri, Keshur, Koshur
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
5.5 Ethnicity
Gurkha, Khas people, Madhesi and Tharu
Kashmiris or koshur
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Indo-Iranian
6.2.2 Branch
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
Khas language, Gurkhali, Parbatiya, Dzongkha Lhotshammikha
No early forms
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
Subject-Object-Verb
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
Not Available