Countries
India, Nepal
  
Algeria, Bahrain, Chad, Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates, Yemen
  
National Language
Nepal
  
Algeria, Bahrain, Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, United Arab Emirates, Yemen
  
Second Language
Republic of Brazil
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Africa, Asia
  
Minority Language
People's Republic of China
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Regulated By
Language Academy of Nepal
  
Academy of the Arabic Language, Arabic Language International Council
  
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.
  
- Arabic is 5th common language in world.
- Classical Arabic is the language of Quran and also it is official language. Classical Arabic is the only way to learn Arabic language in academic way and it does not change.
  
Similar To
Hindi
  
Amharic and Hebrew
  
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
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Arabic.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Devanagari
  
Arabic
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
नमस्ते (namaste)
  
مرحبا
  
Thank You
धन्यवाद (dhanyabad)
  
شكرا
  
How Are You?
तिमीलाई कस्तो छ? (timi lai kasto cha?)
  
كيف حالك؟
  
Good Night
शुभ रात्री (subha ratri)
  
تصبح على خير
  
Good Evening
शुभ सन्ध्या (subha sandhya)
  
مساء الخير
  
Good Afternoon
Good afternoon
  
مساء الخير
  
Good Morning
शुभ प्रभात (subha prabhat)
  
صباح الخير
  
Please
कृपया
  
من فضلك
  
Sorry
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
  
آسف
  
Bye
नमस्ते (namaste)
  
وداعا
  
I Love You
म तपाइलाइ माया गर्छु। (ma tapainlai maya garchu)
  
أحبك
  
Excuse Me
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
  
اعذرني
  
Dialect 1
Doteli
  
Maghrebi
  
Where They Speak
Nepal
  
Algeria, Libya, Maghreb, Morocco, Tunisia
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Bajhangi
  
Sudanese
  
Where They Speak
India, Nepal
  
Sudan
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
17,000,000.00
  
6
Dialect 3
Baitadeli
  
Levantine
  
Where They Speak
Nepal
  
Cyprus, Levant
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
21,000,000.00
  
3
How Many People Speak?
30.00 million
  
36
452.00 million
  
4
Native Speakers
25.00 million
  
32
206.00 million
  
6
Second Language Speakers
5.00 million
  
29
246.00 million
  
2
Native Name
नेपाली (nēpālī)
  
(al arabiya) العربية
  
Alternative Names
Eastern Pahadi, Gorkhali, Gurkhali, Khaskura, Nepalese, Parbate
  
Al-’Arabiyya, Al-Fusha, Literary Arabic
  
French Name
népalais
  
arabe
  
German Name
Nepali
  
Arabisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
/al ʕarabijja/, /ʕarabi/
  
Ethnicity
Gurkha, Khas people, Madhesi and Tharu
  
Arabs
  
Origin
19 BC
  
512 CE
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Afro-Asiatic Family, Semitic Family
  
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
  
Semitic
  
Branch
Indic
  
North Arabic
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Khas language, Gurkhali, Parbatiya, Dzongkha Lhotshammikha
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Nepali
  
Modern Standard Arabic
  
Signed Forms
Signed Nepali
  
Signed Arabic
  
Scope
Individual, Macrolanguage
  
Macrolanguage
  
ISO 639 1
ne
  
ar
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
nep
  
ara
  
ISO 639 2/B
nep
  
ara
  
ISO 639 3
npi
  
ara
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
nepa1254
  
arab1395
  
Linguasphere
12
  
12-AAC
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
  
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Nepali and Arabic Greetings
People around the world use different languages to interact with each other. Even if we cannot communicate fluently in any language, it will always be beneficial to know about some of the common greetings or phrases from that language. This is where Nepali and Arabic greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Nepali and Arabic language. Nepali word for "Hello" is नमस्ते (namaste) or Arabic word for "Thank You" is شكرا. Find more of such common Nepali Greetings and Arabic Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Nepali vs Arabic Difficulty
The Nepali vs Arabic difficulty level basically depends on the number of Nepali Alphabets and Arabic Alphabets. Also the number of vowels and consonants in the language plays an important role in deciding the difficulty level of that language. The important points to be considered when we compare Nepali and Arabic are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Nepali and Arabic, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Nepali is 44 weeks while to learn Arabic time required is 88 weeks.