Countries
India, Nepal
  
Azerbaijan, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Greece, Iraq, Kosovo, Macedonia, Northern Cyprus, Romania, Turkey
  
National Language
Nepal
  
Turkey
  
Second Language
Republic of Brazil
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Asia, Europe
  
Minority Language
People's Republic of China
  
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Greece, Iraq, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania
  
Regulated By
Language Academy of Nepal
  
Turkish Language Association
  
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.
  
- Turkish language oldest written records are found upon stone monuments in Central Asia, in Orhun, Yenisey and Talas regions.
- Turkish language was developed in the Middle East, streching all the way to Eastern Europe.
  
Similar To
Hindi
  
Azerbaijani Language
  
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Nepali-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Turkish-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Devanagari
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
नमस्ते (namaste)
  
Merhaba
  
Thank You
धन्यवाद (dhanyabad)
  
teşekkür ederim
  
How Are You?
तिमीलाई कस्तो छ? (timi lai kasto cha?)
  
Nasılsın?
  
Good Night
शुभ रात्री (subha ratri)
  
İyi Geceler
  
Good Evening
शुभ सन्ध्या (subha sandhya)
  
İyi Akşamlar
  
Good Afternoon
Good afternoon
  
Tünaydın
  
Good Morning
शुभ प्रभात (subha prabhat)
  
günaydın
  
Please
कृपया
  
lütfen
  
Sorry
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
  
üzgünüm
  
Bye
नमस्ते (namaste)
  
Hoşçakal
  
I Love You
म तपाइलाइ माया गर्छु। (ma tapainlai maya garchu)
  
Seni seviyorum
  
Excuse Me
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
  
Afedersiniz
  
Dialect 1
Doteli
  
Azerbaijani Turkish
  
Where They Speak
Nepal
  
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Russia, Syria, Turkey
  
How Many People Speak
26,000,000.00
  
9
Dialect 2
Bajhangi
  
Crimean Turkish
  
Where They Speak
India, Nepal
  
Bulgaria, Kyrgyzstan, Romania, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Baitadeli
  
Gagauz
  
Where They Speak
Nepal
  
Moldova, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
30.00 million
  
36
75.00 million
  
23
Native Speakers
25.00 million
  
32
60.00 million
  
20
Second Language Speakers
5.00 million
  
29
15.00 million
  
18
Native Name
नेपाली (nēpālī)
  
Türkçe
  
Alternative Names
Eastern Pahadi, Gorkhali, Gurkhali, Khaskura, Nepalese, Parbate
  
Anatolian, Türkisch
  
French Name
népalais
  
turc
  
German Name
Nepali
  
Türkisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
[ˈtyɾct͡ʃɛ]
  
Ethnicity
Gurkha, Khas people, Madhesi and Tharu
  
Turkish
  
Origin
19 BC
  
c. 1350
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Turkic Family
  
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
  
Turkic
  
Branch
Indic
  
Southwestern(Oghuz)
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Khas language, Gurkhali, Parbatiya, Dzongkha Lhotshammikha
  
Old Anatalian Turkish, Ottoman Turkish and Turkish
  
Standard Forms
Nepali
  
Ottoman Turkish(defunct)
  
Signed Forms
Signed Nepali
  
Turkish Sign Language
  
Scope
Individual, Macrolanguage
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
ne
  
tr
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
nep
  
tur
  
ISO 639 2/B
nep
  
tur
  
ISO 639 3
npi
  
tur
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
nepa1254
  
nucl1301
  
Linguasphere
12
  
44-AAB-a
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
  
Synthetic