Countries
India, Nepal
  
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
  
National Language
Nepal
  
Russia
  
Second Language
Republic of Brazil
  
Afganistan
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Asia, Europe
  
Minority Language
People's Republic of China
  
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, Poland, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
  
Regulated By
Language Academy of Nepal
  
Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
  
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 Russian language, the words are not pronounced as they are written.
- In Russian language, there are only 200,000 words out of which only few words are used and due to this many words have more than one meaning.
  
Similar To
Hindi
  
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages
  
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
  
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary
  
Alphabets in
Nepali-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Russian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Devanagari
  
Cyrillic
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
नमस्ते (namaste)
  
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)
  
Thank You
धन्यवाद (dhanyabad)
  
спасибо(spasibo)
  
How Are You?
तिमीलाई कस्तो छ? (timi lai kasto cha?)
  
Как дела? (Kak dela?)
  
Good Night
शुभ रात्री (subha ratri)
  
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)
  
Good Evening
शुभ सन्ध्या (subha sandhya)
  
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)
  
Good Afternoon
Good afternoon
  
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')
  
Good Morning
शुभ प्रभात (subha prabhat)
  
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)
  
Please
कृपया
  
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)
  
Sorry
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
  
Извините(Izvinite)
  
Bye
नमस्ते (namaste)
  
до свидания(do svidaniya)
  
I Love You
म तपाइलाइ माया गर्छु। (ma tapainlai maya garchu)
  
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)
  
Excuse Me
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
  
извините(izvinite)
  
Dialect 1
Doteli
  
Doukhobor Russian
  
Where They Speak
Nepal
  
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
  
Dialect 2
Bajhangi
  
Olonets
  
Where They Speak
India, Nepal
  
Olonets
  
Dialect 3
Baitadeli
  
Novgorod
  
Where They Speak
Nepal
  
Novgorod
  
How Many People Speak?
30.00 million
  
36
276.00 million
  
6
Native Speakers
25.00 million
  
32
166.00 million
  
8
Second Language Speakers
5.00 million
  
29
110.00 million
  
7
Native Name
नेपाली (nēpālī)
  
Русский
  
Alternative Names
Eastern Pahadi, Gorkhali, Gurkhali, Khaskura, Nepalese, Parbate
  
Russki
  
French Name
népalais
  
russe
  
German Name
Nepali
  
Russisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
  
Ethnicity
Gurkha, Khas people, Madhesi and Tharu
  
Russians
  
Origin
19 BC
  
1000 AD
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
  
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
  
Slavic
  
Branch
Indic
  
Eastern
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Khas language, Gurkhali, Parbatiya, Dzongkha Lhotshammikha
  
Old East Slavic
  
Standard Forms
Nepali
  
Standard Russian
  
Signed Forms
Signed Nepali
  
Signed Russian
  
Scope
Individual, Macrolanguage
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
ne
  
ru
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
nep
  
rus
  
ISO 639 2/B
nep
  
rus
  
ISO 639 3
npi
  
rus
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
nepa1254
  
russ1263
  
Linguasphere
12
  
53-AAA-ea
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
  
Fusional, Synthetic