1 Countries
1.1 Countries
India, Nepal
South Africa
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.7 National Language
1.8 Second Language
Republic of Brazil
Lesotho, South Africa
1.9 Speaking Continents
1.10 Minority Language
People's Republic of China
Botswana, Lesotho
1.11 Regulated By
Language Academy of Nepal
Not Available
1.12 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.
- Xhosa has 15 click sounds, borrowed from the khoi-khoi and san languages of the South Africa.
- The same sequence of consonants and vowels can have different meaning when said with different tones, so Xhosa is tonal.
1.13 Similar To
Hindi
Zulu, Swazi, and Ndebele
1.14 Derived From
Sanskrit Language
Khoi-Khoi and San Languages
2 Alphabets
2.1 Alphabets in
2.2 Alphabets
2.4 Phonology
2.4.1 How Many Vowels
4.1.1 How Many Consonants
4.3 Scripts
4.4 Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Not Available
4.5 Hard to Learn
4.5.1 Language Levels
4.6.3 Time Taken to Learn
5 Greetings
5.1 Hello
5.2 Thank You
धन्यवाद (dhanyabad)
Ndiyabulela
5.3 How Are You?
तिमीलाई कस्तो छ? (timi lai kasto cha?)
Unjani
5.4 Good Night
शुभ रात्री (subha ratri)
Ulale kakuhle
5.5 Good Evening
शुभ सन्ध्या (subha sandhya)
Ubusuku obuhle
5.6 Good Afternoon
Good afternoon
Uben' emva kwemini entle
5.7 Good Morning
शुभ प्रभात (subha prabhat)
Molo
5.8 Please
5.9 Sorry
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
Ndicela uxolo
5.10 Bye
नमस्ते (namaste)
Uhambe/Usale kakuhle
5.11 I Love You
म तपाइलाइ माया गर्छु। (ma tapainlai maya garchu)
Ndiyakuthanda
5.12 Excuse Me
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
Uxolo
6 Dialects
6.1 Dialect 1
6.1.1 Where They Speak
6.1.2 How Many People Speak
790,000.00NA
1.5
960000000
7.2 Dialect 2
7.2.1 Where They Speak
India, Nepal
South Africa
7.2.2 How Many People Speak
7.4 Dialect 3
7.4.1 Where They Speak
7.4.2 How Many People Speak
7.6 Total No. Of Dialects
8 How Many People Speak
8.1 How Many People Speak?
30.00 million20.00 million
0.13
1200
9.4 Speaking Population
10.3 Native Speakers
25.00 million8.20 million
0.13
873
10.8.4 Second Language Speakers
5.00 million11.00 million
0.01
400
10.8.5 Native Name
10.8.6 Alternative Names
Eastern Pahadi, Gorkhali, Gurkhali, Khaskura, Nepalese, Parbate
“Cauzuh” (pej.), Isixhosa, Koosa, Xosa
10.8.7 French Name
10.8.8 German Name
10.9 Pronunciation
Not Available
Not Available
10.10 Ethnicity
Gurkha, Khas people, Madhesi and Tharu
amaXhosa, amaBhaca
11 History
11.1 Origin
11.2 Language Family
Indo-European Family
Niger-Congo Family
11.2.1 Subgroup
11.2.2 Branch
11.3 Language Forms
11.3.1 Early Forms
Khas language, Gurkhali, Parbatiya, Dzongkha Lhotshammikha
No early forms
11.3.2 Standard Forms
11.3.3 Language Position
11.3.4 Signed Forms
Signed Nepali
Signed Xhosa
11.4 Scope
Individual, Macrolanguage
Individual
12 Code
12.1 ISO 639 1
12.2 ISO 639 2
12.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
12.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
12.3 ISO 639 3
12.4 ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
12.5 Glottocode
12.6 Linguasphere
12.7 Types of Language
12.7.1 Language Type
12.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object
12.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
Not Available