Countries
India, Nepal
  
Indonesia
  
National Language
Nepal
  
Indonesia
  
Second Language
Republic of Brazil
  
East Timor, Indonesia
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
People's Republic of China
  
Denmark, East Timor, Netherlands
  
Regulated By
Language Academy of Nepal
  
Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa
  
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.
  
- The modern Indonesian language uses many loan words from Persian, Chinese and Arabic.
- In Indonesian language, spelling is phonetically precise, so that words are spelled as they sound.
  
Similar To
Hindi
  
Malay language
  
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
  
Malay and Dutch Languages
  
Alphabets in
Nepali-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Indonesian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Devanagari
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Not Available
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
नमस्ते (namaste)
  
Halo
  
Thank You
धन्यवाद (dhanyabad)
  
Terima kasih
  
How Are You?
तिमीलाई कस्तो छ? (timi lai kasto cha?)
  
Apa kabar?
  
Good Night
शुभ रात्री (subha ratri)
  
Selamat Malam
  
Good Evening
शुभ सन्ध्या (subha sandhya)
  
Malam yang baik
  
Good Afternoon
Good afternoon
  
Selamat Sore
  
Good Morning
शुभ प्रभात (subha prabhat)
  
Selamat Pagi
  
Please
कृपया
  
mohon Untuk
  
Sorry
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
  
maaf
  
Bye
नमस्ते (namaste)
  
Selamat tinggal
  
I Love You
म तपाइलाइ माया गर्छु। (ma tapainlai maya garchu)
  
Aku cinta kamu
  
Excuse Me
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
  
Permisi
  
Dialect 1
Doteli
  
Sundanese
  
Where They Speak
Nepal
  
Indonesia
  
How Many People Speak
38,000,000.00
  
8
Dialect 2
Bajhangi
  
Balinese
  
Where They Speak
India, Nepal
  
Bali, Indonesia, Lombok and Java, Nusa Penida
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
3,300,000.00
  
17
Dialect 3
Baitadeli
  
Minangkabau
  
Where They Speak
Nepal
  
Indonesia, Malaysia
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
6,000,000.00
  
7
How Many People Speak?
30.00 million
  
36
163.00 million
  
11
Native Speakers
25.00 million
  
32
23.00 million
  
34
Second Language Speakers
5.00 million
  
29
140.00 million
  
4
Native Name
नेपाली (nēpālī)
  
Bahasa Melayu
  
Alternative Names
Eastern Pahadi, Gorkhali, Gurkhali, Khaskura, Nepalese, Parbate
  
Bahasa Indonesia
  
French Name
népalais
  
indonésien
  
German Name
Nepali
  
Bahasa Indonesia
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Gurkha, Khas people, Madhesi and Tharu
  
Indonesians
  
Origin
19 BC
  
7th Century
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Austronesian Family
  
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
  
Indonesian
  
Branch
Indic
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Khas language, Gurkhali, Parbatiya, Dzongkha Lhotshammikha
  
Old Malay
  
Standard Forms
Nepali
  
Indonesian
  
Signed Forms
Signed Nepali
  
Sistem Isyarat Bahasa Indonesia (SIBI, "Signed Indonesian")
  
Scope
Individual, Macrolanguage
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
ne
  
id
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
nep
  
ind
  
ISO 639 2/B
nep
  
ind
  
ISO 639 3
npi
  
ind
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
nepa1254
  
indo1316
  
Linguasphere
12
  
No data available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
  
Agglutinative
  
Nepali and Indonesian 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 Indonesian greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Nepali and Indonesian language. Nepali word for "Hello" is नमस्ते (namaste) or Indonesian word for "Thank You" is Terima kasih. Find more of such common Nepali Greetings and Indonesian Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Nepali vs Indonesian Difficulty
The Nepali vs Indonesian difficulty level basically depends on the number of Nepali Alphabets and Indonesian 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 Indonesian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Nepali and Indonesian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Nepali is 44 weeks while to learn Indonesian time required is 36 weeks.