Countries
India, Nepal
India
National Language
Nepal
India
Second Language
Republic of Brazil
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
People's Republic of China
Great Britain, Kenya, Malawi, Oman, Pakistan, Tanzania, Uganda, United States of America, Zambia
Regulated By
Language Academy of Nepal
NA
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.
- Gujarati was the first language of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi("Father of the Nation of India") and Vallabhbhai Patel ("Iron Man of India").
- Most of the words in Gujarati language are adopted from Sanskrit.
Similar To
Hindi
Bengali Language
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Nepali-Alphabets.jpg#200
Gujarati-Alphabets.jpg#200
Scripts
Devanagari
Devanagari
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Language Levels
Not Available
Hello
नमस्ते (namaste)
નમસ્તે (namaste)
Thank You
धन्यवाद (dhanyabad)
ધન્યવાદ (dhanvaad)
How Are You?
तिमीलाई कस्तो छ? (timi lai kasto cha?)
કેમ છો (kem cho?)
Good Night
शुभ रात्री (subha ratri)
શુભ રાત્રે (shub rātrē)
Good Evening
शुभ सन्ध्या (subha sandhya)
સાંજે સારી (sān̄jē sārī)
Good Afternoon
Good afternoon
સારા બપોરે (sārā bapōrē)
Good Morning
शुभ प्रभात (subha prabhat)
સુ પ્રભાત (su prabhat)
Please
कृपया
કૃપા કરીને(Kr̥pā karīnē)
Sorry
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
મન્ને મફ કરો (manne maaf karo)
Bye
नमस्ते (namaste)
બાય (Bāya)
I Love You
म तपाइलाइ माया गर्छु। (ma tapainlai maya garchu)
હું તને પ્રેમ કરુ છું (hūṃ tane prem karū chūṃ)
Excuse Me
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
માફ કરશો (Māpha karaśō)
Dialect 1
Doteli
Kathiyawadi
Where They Speak
Nepal
India, Mauritius, Oman, Pakistan, Singapore, South Africa, Tanzania, United Kingdom, United States of America
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 2
Bajhangi
Kharwa
Where They Speak
India, Nepal
India, Mauritius, Pakistan, Singapore, United Kingdom, United States of America
Dialect 3
Baitadeli
Not Available
Where They Speak
Nepal
Not Available
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
Native Name
नेपाली (nēpālī)
ગુજરાતી (gujarātī)
Alternative Names
Eastern Pahadi, Gorkhali, Gurkhali, Khaskura, Nepalese, Parbate
Gujerathi, Gujerati, Gujrathi
French Name
népalais
goudjrati
German Name
Nepali
Gujarati-Sprache
Pronunciation
Not Available
[ɡudʒəˈɾɑːt̪i]
Ethnicity
Gurkha, Khas people, Madhesi and Tharu
Gujaratis
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Indo-Iranian
Early Forms
Khas language, Gurkhali, Parbatiya, Dzongkha Lhotshammikha
Old Gujarati
Standard Forms
Nepali
Modern Gujarati
Signed Forms
Signed Nepali
Not Available
Scope
Individual, Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
Glottocode
nepa1254
guja1252
Linguasphere
12
No data available
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
Not Available
Nepali and Gujarati 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 Gujarati greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Nepali and Gujarati language. Nepali word for "Hello" is नमस्ते (namaste) or Gujarati word for "Thank You" is ધન્યવાદ (dhanvaad). Find more of such common Nepali Greetings and Gujarati Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Nepali vs Gujarati Difficulty
The Nepali vs Gujarati difficulty level basically depends on the number of Nepali Alphabets and Gujarati 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 Gujarati are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Nepali and Gujarati, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Nepali is 44 weeks while to learn Gujarati time required is 18 weeks.