1 Countries
1.1 Countries
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
Nepal
Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal
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.
- Santali language was an oral language till nineteenth century.
- Before the invention of Santali alphabets, Santali was written with the Bengali or Odia alphabets.
1.9 Similar To
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
Devanagari
Bengali, Devanagari, Latin, Ol Chiki, Oriya
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)
Henda ho
3.2 Thank You
धन्यवाद (dhanyabad)
Adi Johar
3.3 How Are You?
तिमीलाई कस्तो छ? (timi lai kasto cha?)
Cet’leka menama?
3.4 Good Night
शुभ रात्री (subha ratri)
Boge Ninda
3.5 Good Evening
शुभ सन्ध्या (subha sandhya)
Boge Ayup’
3.6 Good Afternoon
Good afternoon
Not Available
3.7 Good Morning
शुभ प्रभात (subha prabhat)
Boge Setak’
3.8 Please
3.9 Sorry
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
Not Available
3.10 Bye
नमस्ते (namaste)
Not Available
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
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
Not Available
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 million6.30 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
25.00 million6.30 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
5.3.2 Native Name
नेपाली (nēpālī)
संथाली (sãtʰālī)
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Eastern Pahadi, Gorkhali, Gurkhali, Khaskura, Nepalese, Parbate
Har, Hor, Samtali, Sandal, Sangtal, Santal, Santhali, Santhiali, Satar, Sentali, Sonthal
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
Santal and Teraibasi Santali
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Indo-European Family
Austroasiatic 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
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