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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Scripts
Devanagari
Arabic
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
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
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
Dialect 3
Baitadeli
Levantine
Where They Speak
Nepal
Cyprus, Levant
How Many People Speak
Not Available
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
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Afro-Asiatic Family, Semitic Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Semitic
Branch
Indic
North Arabic
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 6
Not Available
Not Available
Glottocode
nepa1254
arab1395
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.
