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Nepali and Russian


Russian and Nepali


Countries

Countries
India, Nepal   
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan   

Total No. Of Countries
2   
13
4   
11

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

Alphabets in
Nepali-Alphabets.jpg#200   
Russian-Alphabets.jpg#200   

Alphabets
48   
28
33   
15

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
12   
9
10   
7

How Many Consonants
36   
26
21   
11

Scripts
Devanagari   
Cyrillic   

Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal   
Left-To-Right, Horizontal   

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
6   
5
6   
5

Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks   
11
44 weeks   
11

Greetings

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)   

Dialects

Dialect 1
Doteli   
Doukhobor Russian   

Where They Speak
Nepal   
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan   

How Many People Speak
790,000.00   
30
30,000.00   
99+

Dialect 2
Bajhangi   
Olonets   

Where They Speak
India, Nepal   
Olonets   

Dialect 3
Baitadeli   
Novgorod   

Where They Speak
Nepal   
Novgorod   

Total No. Of Dialects
12   
12
13   
13

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
30.00 million   
36
276.00 million   
6

Speaking Population
0.25 %   
99+
2.33 %   
9

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   

History

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   

Language Position
59   
99+
7   
7

Signed Forms
Signed Nepali   
Signed Russian   

Scope
Individual, Macrolanguage   
Individual   

Code

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   

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All Nepali and Russian Dialects

Most languages have dialects where each dialect differ from other dialect with respect to grammar and vocabulary. Here you will get to know all Nepali and Russian dialects. Various dialects of Nepali and Russian language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Nepali are spoken in different Nepali Speaking Countries whereas Russian Dialects are spoken in different Russian speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Nepali vs Russian Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Nepali dialects include: Doteli, Bajhangi. Russian dialects include: Doukhobor Russian , Olonets. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

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Nepali and Russian Speaking population

Nepali and Russian speaking population is one of the factors based on which Nepali and Russian languages can be compared. The total count of Nepali and Russian Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Nepali language is 0.25 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Russian language is 2.33 %. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak Nepali and Russian on Nepali vs Russian where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Nepali and Russian Language Codes

Nepali and Russian language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Nepali and Russian Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.

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