1 Countries
1.1 Countries
India, Nepal
India, Pakistan
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.6 National Language
Nepal
Jammu and Kashmir, India
1.7 Second Language
Republic of Brazil
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.8 Speaking Continents
1.9 Minority Language
People's Republic of China
Not Available
1.10 Regulated By
Language Academy of Nepal
Not Available
1.11 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.
- Dogri is derived from Sanskrit, but it has absorbed a large number of Arabic, Persian and English words.
- Dogri language has its own grammar and dictionary. The grammar of dogri has very strong sanskrit base.
1.12 Similar To
Hindi
Hindi and Punjabi Languages
1.13 Derived From
Sanskrit Language
Sanskrit Language
2 Alphabets
2.1 Alphabets in
2.2 Alphabets
3.3 Phonology
3.3.1 How Many Vowels
3.7.2 How Many Consonants
3.8 Scripts
Devanagari
Devanagari, Gurmukhi, Perso-Arabic script
3.9 Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
3.10 Hard to Learn
3.10.1 Language Levels
3.13.2 Time Taken to Learn
6 Greetings
6.1 Hello
नमस्ते (namaste)
Ke aal aee
6.2 Thank You
धन्यवाद (dhanyabad)
dhanwaad
6.3 How Are You?
तिमीलाई कस्तो छ? (timi lai kasto cha?)
kiyaan oo ji
6.4 Good Night
शुभ रात्री (subha ratri)
shub ratri
6.5 Good Evening
शुभ सन्ध्या (subha sandhya)
shub ratri
6.6 Good Afternoon
Good afternoon
Not Available
6.7 Good Morning
शुभ प्रभात (subha prabhat)
su prabat
6.8 Please
6.9 Sorry
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
mere kaulan galti ooyyii
6.10 Bye
नमस्ते (namaste)
changa ji pher
6.11 I Love You
म तपाइलाइ माया गर्छु। (ma tapainlai maya garchu)
Minjo tere naal pyar hega
6.12 Excuse Me
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
gustakhi maaf
7 Dialects
7.1 Dialect 1
7.1.1 Where They Speak
Nepal
Himachal Pradesh, India
7.1.2 How Many People Speak
790,000.00100,000.00
1.5
960000000
7.3 Dialect 2
7.3.1 Where They Speak
India, Nepal
Georgia, Himachal Pradesh, India
7.3.2 How Many People Speak
NA110,000.00
700
80000000
7.5 Dialect 3
7.5.1 Where They Speak
Nepal
France, Himachal Pradesh, India
7.5.2 How Many People Speak
NA30,000.00
1400
96000000
7.7 Total No. Of Dialects
9 How Many People Speak
9.1 How Many People Speak?
30.00 million4.00 million
0.13
1200
9.4 Speaking Population
9.5 Native Speakers
25.00 million4.00 million
0.13
873
10.3.4 Second Language Speakers
11.7.4 Native Name
11.7.5 Alternative Names
Eastern Pahadi, Gorkhali, Gurkhali, Khaskura, Nepalese, Parbate
Dhogaryali, Dogari, Dogri Jammu, Dogri Pahari, Dogri-Kangri, Dongari, Hindi Dogri, Tokkaru
11.7.6 French Name
11.7.7 German Name
11.8 Pronunciation
Not Available
Not Available
11.9 Ethnicity
Gurkha, Khas people, Madhesi and Tharu
Dogras
12 History
12.1 Origin
12.2 Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
12.2.1 Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Not Available
12.2.2 Branch
12.3 Language Forms
12.3.1 Early Forms
Khas language, Gurkhali, Parbatiya, Dzongkha Lhotshammikha
No Early Forms
12.3.2 Standard Forms
12.3.3 Language Position
12.3.4 Signed Forms
Signed Nepali
Not Available
12.4 Scope
Individual, Macrolanguage
Individual, Macrolanguage
13 Code
13.1 ISO 639 1
13.2 ISO 639 2
13.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
13.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
13.3 ISO 639 3
13.4 ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
13.5 Glottocode
13.6 Linguasphere
13.7 Types of Language
13.7.1 Language Type
13.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Not Available
13.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
Not Available