1 Countries
1.1 Countries
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
Nepal
Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam
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
Australia, France, United States of America
1.7 Regulated By
Language Academy of Nepal
Not Available
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.
- Khmer is not the tonal language.
- Khmer language has borrowed philisophical, administrative and technical vocabulary from Sanskrit and Pali.
1.9 Similar To
1.10 Derived From
Sanskrit Language
Pali and Sanskrit Languages
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
3.2 Thank You
धन्यवाद (dhanyabad)
សូមអរគុណអ្នក (saum arkoun anak)
3.3 How Are You?
तिमीलाई कस्तो छ? (timi lai kasto cha?)
អ្នកសុខសប្បាយទេ
3.4 Good Night
शुभ रात्री (subha ratri)
ND
3.5 Good Evening
शुभ सन्ध्या (subha sandhya)
ND
3.6 Good Afternoon
3.7 Good Morning
शुभ प्रभात (subha prabhat)
ND
3.8 Please
3.9 Sorry
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
ND
3.10 Bye
3.11 I Love You
म तपाइलाइ माया गर्छु। (ma tapainlai maya garchu)
ND
3.12 Excuse Me
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
ND
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Nepal
Australia, Cambodia, France, Thailand, United States of America
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
790,000.001,400,000.00
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
4.2.1 Where They Speak
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
NA1,200,000.00
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
4.3.1 Where They Speak
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
30.00 million16.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
25.00 million13.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
5.3.2 Native Name
नेपाली (nēpālī)
ភាសាខ្មែរ (bhāsā khmɛ̄r)
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Eastern Pahadi, Gorkhali, Gurkhali, Khaskura, Nepalese, Parbate
Cambodian, Khmer
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
Not Available
[pʰiːəsaː kʰmaːe]
5.5 Ethnicity
Gurkha, Khas people, Madhesi and Tharu
Khmer, Northern Khmer
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Indo-European Family
Austroasiatic 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
Proto-Khmer
6.3.2 Standard Forms
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Signed Nepali
Not Available
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