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
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.
- Kirundi language is tonal, since it has high and low essential tones.
- Kirundi Language is referred as a language where Meeussen's rule is active, this rule describes a certain pattern of tonal change in Bantu languages.
1.9 Similar To
Hindi
Kinyarwanda Language
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
Not Available
2.6 Hard to Learn
2.6.1 Language Levels
2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
3.2 Thank You
धन्यवाद (dhanyabad)
Urakoze
3.3 How Are You?
तिमीलाई कस्तो छ? (timi lai kasto cha?)
Urakomeye?
3.4 Good Night
शुभ रात्री (subha ratri)
Ijoro ryiza
3.5 Good Evening
शुभ सन्ध्या (subha sandhya)
Mwiriwe
3.6 Good Afternoon
3.7 Good Morning
शुभ प्रभात (subha prabhat)
Mwaramutse
3.8 Please
3.9 Sorry
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
Not available
3.10 Bye
नमस्ते (namaste)
N’agasaga
3.11 I Love You
म तपाइलाइ माया गर्छु। (ma tapainlai maya garchu)
Not available
3.12 Excuse Me
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
Not available
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Nepal
Burundi, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
790,000.0020,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
4.2.1 Where They Speak
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
NA990,000.00
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
4.3.1 Where They Speak
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
NA153,000.00
1400
96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
30.00 million8.80 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
25.00 million8.80 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
Not Available
5.5 Ethnicity
Gurkha, Khas people, Madhesi and Tharu
Hutu, Tutsi, and Twa
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Indo-European Family
Niger-Congo 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
No early forms
6.3.2 Standard Forms
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Signed Nepali
Not Available
6.4 Scope
Individual, Macrolanguage
Not Available
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