1 Countries
1.1 Countries
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
1.4 Second Language
Republic of Brazil
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
People's Republic of China
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.7 Regulated By
Language Academy of Nepal
Central Hindi Directorate
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 Hindi language, nouns are followed by post positions.
- In Hindi, there are many familiar words in English which are in Hindi or of Hindi origin.
1.9 Similar To
1.10 Derived From
Sanskrit Language
Sanskrit Language
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
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
2.6 Hard to Learn
2.6.1 Language Levels
2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
नमस्ते (namaste)
नमस्ते (Namastē)
3.2 Thank You
धन्यवाद (dhanyabad)
धन्यवाद (Dhan'yavāda)
3.3 How Are You?
तिमीलाई कस्तो छ? (timi lai kasto cha?)
तुम कैसे हो? (Tuma kaisē hō?)
3.4 Good Night
शुभ रात्री (subha ratri)
शुभरात्रि (Śubharātri)
3.5 Good Evening
शुभ सन्ध्या (subha sandhya)
शुभ सन्ध्या (shubh sandhya)
3.6 Good Afternoon
Good afternoon
दोपहर के बाद नमस्कार (dopahar ke bad namaskar)
3.7 Good Morning
शुभ प्रभात (subha prabhat)
सुप्रभात (Suprabhāta)
3.8 Please
3.9 Sorry
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
खेद (Khēda)
3.10 Bye
नमस्ते (namaste)
अलविदा (Alavidā)
3.11 I Love You
म तपाइलाइ माया गर्छु। (ma tapainlai maya garchu)
मैं आपसे प्यार करता (Maiṁ āpasē pyāra karatā)
3.12 Excuse Me
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
मुझे माफ करें (Mujhē māpha karēṁ)
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Nepal
Delhi, Haryana, Western Uttar Pradesh
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
790,000.00240,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
4.2.1 Where They Speak
India, Nepal
Gujarat, Haryana, Rajasthan, Sindh
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
NA22,000,000.00
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
4.3.1 Where They Speak
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
NA20,000,000.00
1400
96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
30.00 million380.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
25.00 million260.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
5.00 million120.00 million
0.01
400
5.3.2 Native Name
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Eastern Pahadi, Gorkhali, Gurkhali, Khaskura, Nepalese, Parbate
Khadi Boli, Khari Boli
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
Not Available
[ˈmaːnək ˈɦin̪d̪iː]
5.5 Ethnicity
Gurkha, Khas people, Madhesi and Tharu
Hindustani people
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Indo-Iranian
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
Indian Signing System
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
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
Not Available
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
Fusional, Synthetic