1 Countries
1.1 Countries
India, Nepal
Assam, India
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
1.4 Second Language
Republic of Brazil
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1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
People's Republic of China
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1.7 Regulated By
Language Academy of Nepal
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1.8 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.
- In ancient times, Bodo language was written using Assamese script and Roman script.
- Bodo Language is written using Devanagari script since 1963.
1.9 Similar To
Hindi
Dimasa language, Garo language, Kokborok language
1.10 Derived From
Sanskrit Language
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2 Alphabets
2.1 Alphabets in
2.2 Alphabets
2.3 Phonology
2.3.1 How Many Vowels
2.3.2 How Many Consonants
2.4 Scripts
2.5 Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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2.6 Hard to Learn
2.6.1 Language Levels
2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
नमस्ते (namaste)
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3.2 Thank You
धन्यवाद (dhanyabad)
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3.3 How Are You?
तिमीलाई कस्तो छ? (timi lai kasto cha?)
Nungni khabora ma?
3.4 Good Night
शुभ रात्री (subha ratri)
मोजां हर (Mwjang Hor)
3.5 Good Evening
शुभ सन्ध्या (subha sandhya)
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3.6 Good Afternoon
Good afternoon
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3.7 Good Morning
शुभ प्रभात (subha prabhat)
मोजां फुं (Mwjang Fung)
3.8 Please
3.9 Sorry
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
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3.10 Bye
नमस्ते (namaste)
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3.11 I Love You
म तपाइलाइ माया गर्छु। (ma tapainlai maya garchu)
अननाइ नों (onnai Nwng)
3.12 Excuse Me
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
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4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Doteli
(Sønabari) Western Boro dialect
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Nepal
Bongaigaon, Kokrajhar
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
790,000.00NA
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
Bajhangi
(Sanzari) Eastern Boro dialect
4.2.1 Where They Speak
India, Nepal
Barpeta, Darrang, Kamrup, Nalbari
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
4.3 Dialect 3
Baitadeli
(Hazari) Southern Boro dialect
4.3.1 Where They Speak
Nepal
Assam, India, Nepal
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
30.00 million0.60 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
25.00 million0.60 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
5.3.2 Native Name
नेपाली (nēpālī)
बड़ो (boṛo)
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Eastern Pahadi, Gorkhali, Gurkhali, Khaskura, Nepalese, Parbate
Bara, Bodi, Boro, Boroni, Kachari, Mech, Meche, Mechi, Meci
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
5.5 Ethnicity
Gurkha, Khas people, Madhesi and Tharu
Bodo, Mech, (Assamese)
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Indo-European Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Tibeto-Burman
6.2.2 Branch
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
Khas language, Gurkhali, Parbatiya, Dzongkha Lhotshammikha
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6.3.2 Standard Forms
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Signed Nepali
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6.4 Scope
Individual, Macrolanguage
Individual
7 Code
7.1 ISO 639 1
7.2 ISO 639 2
7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
7.3 ISO 639 3
7.4 ISO 639 6
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7.5 Glottocode
7.6 Linguasphere
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
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7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
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