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Nepali Language

Nepali Nepali Nepali


Countries

Countries
India, Nepal

Total No. Of Countries
2 13

National Language
Nepal

Second Language
Republic of Brazil

Speaking Continents
Asia

Minority Language
People's Republic of China

Regulated By
Language Academy of Nepal

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.

Similar To
Hindi

Derived From
Sanskrit Language

Alphabets

Alphabets in
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Alphabets
48 28

Phonology

How Many Vowels
12 9

How Many Consonants
36 26

Scripts
Devanagari

Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal

Hard to Learn

Language Levels
6 5

Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks 11

Greetings

Hello
नमस्ते (namaste)

Thank You
धन्यवाद (dhanyabad)

How Are You?
तिमीलाई कस्तो छ? (timi lai kasto cha?)

Good Night
शुभ रात्री (subha ratri)

Good Evening
शुभ सन्ध्या (subha sandhya)

Good Afternoon
Good afternoon

Good Morning
शुभ प्रभात (subha prabhat)

Please
कृपया

Sorry
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)

Bye
नमस्ते (namaste)

I Love You
म तपाइलाइ माया गर्छु। (ma tapainlai maya garchu)

Excuse Me
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)

Dialects

Dialect 1
Doteli

Where They Speak
Nepal

How Many People Speak
790,000.00 30

Dialect 2
Bajhangi

Where They Speak
India, Nepal

How Many People Speak
Not Available

Dialect 3
Baitadeli

Where They Speak
Nepal

How Many People Speak
Not Available

Total No. Of Dialects
12 12

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
30.00 million 36

Speaking Population
0.25 % 41

Native Speakers
25.00 million 32

Second Language Speakers
5.00 million 29

Native Name
नेपाली (nēpālī)

Alternative Names
Eastern Pahadi, Gorkhali, Gurkhali, Khaskura, Nepalese, Parbate

French Name
népalais

German Name
Nepali

Pronunciation
Not Available

Ethnicity
Gurkha, Khas people, Madhesi and Tharu

History

Origin
19 BC

Language Family
Indo-European Family

Subgroup
Indo-Iranian

Branch
Indic

Language Forms

Early Forms
Khas language, Gurkhali, Parbatiya, Dzongkha Lhotshammikha

Standard Forms
Nepali

Language Position
59 44

Signed Forms
Signed Nepali

Scope
Individual, Macrolanguage

Code

ISO 639 1
ne

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T
nep

ISO 639 2/B
nep

ISO 639 3
npi

ISO 639 6
Not Available

Glottocode
nepa1254

Linguasphere
12

Types of Language

Language Type
Living

Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb

Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative

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Origin of Nepali language

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Nepali population

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Nepali writing system

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