1 Countries
1.1 Countries
India, Nepal
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
1.4 Second Language
Republic of Brazil
Republic of Brazil
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
People's Republic of China
Indonesia, Malaysia
1.7 Regulated By
Language Academy of Nepal
Chinese Language Standardization Council, National Commission on Language and Script Work, Promote Mandarin Council
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.
- Chinese language is tonal, since meaning of a word changes according to its tone.
- In Chinese language, there is no grammatical distinction between singular or plural, no declination of verbs according to tense, mood and aspect.
1.9 Similar To
1.10 Derived From
Sanskrit Language
Not Available
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
Devanagari
Chinese Characters and derivatives
2.5 Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
2.6 Hard to Learn
2.6.1 Language Levels
2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
नमस्ते (namaste)
您好 (Nín hǎo)
3.2 Thank You
धन्यवाद (dhanyabad)
谢谢 (Xièxiè)
3.3 How Are You?
तिमीलाई कस्तो छ? (timi lai kasto cha?)
你好吗？ (Nǐ hǎo ma?)
3.4 Good Night
शुभ रात्री (subha ratri)
晚安 (Wǎn'ān)
3.5 Good Evening
शुभ सन्ध्या (subha sandhya)
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)
3.6 Good Afternoon
Good afternoon
下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)
3.7 Good Morning
शुभ प्रभात (subha prabhat)
早安 (Zǎo ān)
3.8 Please
3.9 Sorry
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
遗憾 (Yíhàn)
3.10 Bye
नमस्ते (namaste)
再见 (Zàijiàn)
3.11 I Love You
म तपाइलाइ माया गर्छु। (ma tapainlai maya garchu)
我爱你 (Wǒ ài nǐ)
3.12 Excuse Me
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
劳驾 (Láojià)
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Nepal
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
790,000.00960,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
4.2.1 Where They Speak
India, Nepal
China, United States of America
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
NA80,000,000.00
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
4.3.1 Where They Speak
Nepal
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
NA60,000,000.00
1400
96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
30.00 million1,051.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
25.00 million873.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
5.00 million178.00 million
0.01
400
5.3.2 Native Name
नेपाली (nēpālī)
中文 (zhōngwén)
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Eastern Pahadi, Gorkhali, Gurkhali, Khaskura, Nepalese, Parbate
Not Available
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
Not Available
Not Available
5.5 Ethnicity
Gurkha, Khas people, Madhesi and Tharu
Han
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Indo-European Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Not Available
6.2.2 Branch
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
Khas language, Gurkhali, Parbatiya, Dzongkha Lhotshammikha
No early forms
6.3.2 Standard Forms
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Signed Nepali
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))
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
Not Available
Not Available
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
Subject-Verb-Object
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
Analytic, Isolating