Countries
India, Nepal
  
Ukraine
  
National Language
Nepal
  
Ukraine
  
Second Language
Republic of Brazil
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Europe
  
Minority Language
People's Republic of China
  
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia
  
Regulated By
Language Academy of Nepal
  
National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine: Institute for the Ukrainian Language
  
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.
  
- Ukrainian Language is second most widespread among the Slavic languages after the Russian Language.
- Ukrainian Language is among the top three most melodious language in the world.
  
Similar To
Hindi
  
Russian and Belarusian Languages
  
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Nepali-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Ukrainian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Devanagari
  
Cyrillic, Ukrainian Braille
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Not Available
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
नमस्ते (namaste)
  
Здравствуйте (Zdravstvuyte)
  
Thank You
धन्यवाद (dhanyabad)
  
Дякую (Dyakuyu)
  
How Are You?
तिमीलाई कस्तो छ? (timi lai kasto cha?)
  
Як ти поживаєш? (Jak ty požyvajesh?)
  
Good Night
शुभ रात्री (subha ratri)
  
На добраніч (Na dobranič)
  
Good Evening
शुभ सन्ध्या (subha sandhya)
  
Доброго вечора (Dobroho večora)
  
Good Afternoon
Good afternoon
  
Доброго дня (Dobroho dnia)
  
Good Morning
शुभ प्रभात (subha prabhat)
  
Доброго ранку! (Dobroho ranku)
  
Please
कृपया
  
будь ласк
  
Sorry
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
  
вибачте (vybachte)
  
Bye
नमस्ते (namaste)
  
до побачення (do pobachennya)
  
I Love You
म तपाइलाइ माया गर्छु। (ma tapainlai maya garchu)
  
я тебе люблю (ya tebe lyublyu)
  
Excuse Me
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
  
Перепрошую! (Pereprošuju)
  
Dialect 1
Doteli
  
Podillian
  
Where They Speak
Nepal
  
North Odessa Oblast, South Khmelnytskyi, South Vinnytsia
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Bajhangi
  
Volynian
  
Where They Speak
India, Nepal
  
Rivne, Volyn
  
Dialect 3
Baitadeli
  
Steppe
  
Where They Speak
Nepal
  
South Ukraine, Southeastern Ukraine
  
How Many People Speak?
30.00 million
  
36
39.00 million
  
32
Native Speakers
25.00 million
  
32
39.00 million
  
25
Second Language Speakers
5.00 million
  
29
Not Available
  
Native Name
नेपाली (nēpālī)
  
Українська (Ukrajins'ka)
  
Alternative Names
Eastern Pahadi, Gorkhali, Gurkhali, Khaskura, Nepalese, Parbate
  
Not Available
  
French Name
népalais
  
ukrainien
  
German Name
Nepali
  
Ukrainisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
[ukrɑˈjiɲsʲkɐ ˈmɔwɐ]
  
Ethnicity
Gurkha, Khas people, Madhesi and Tharu
  
Ukrainians
  
Origin
19 BC
  
1561
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
  
Slavic
  
Branch
Indic
  
Eastern
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Khas language, Gurkhali, Parbatiya, Dzongkha Lhotshammikha
  
Old East Slavic, Ukrainian
  
Standard Forms
Nepali
  
Modern Ukrainian
  
Signed Forms
Signed Nepali
  
Ukrainian Sign Language
  
Scope
Individual, Macrolanguage
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
ne
  
uk
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
nep
  
ukr
  
ISO 639 2/B
nep
  
ukr
  
ISO 639 3
npi
  
ukr
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
nepa1254
  
ukra1253
  
Linguasphere
12
  
53-AAA-eda to 53-AAA-edq
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
  
Fusional, Synthetic