1 Countries
1.1 Countries
India, Nepal
Iraq, Kurdistan
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
Nepal
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Turkey
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
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.
- The vocabulary in Kurdish is of Iranian origin.
- In the middle East, Kurdish is the fourth largest ethnic group.
1.9 Similar To
1.10 Derived From
Sanskrit Language
Not Available
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
Devanagari
Arabic, Cyrillic, Latin
2.5 Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Right-To-Left, 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)
Sipas
3.3 How Are You?
तिमीलाई कस्तो छ? (timi lai kasto cha?)
Tu çawa yî?
3.4 Good Night
शुभ रात्री (subha ratri)
Şev xweş
3.5 Good Evening
शुभ सन्ध्या (subha sandhya)
Evare baş
3.6 Good Afternoon
Good afternoon
Nee-wa-rowt bash
3.7 Good Morning
शुभ प्रभात (subha prabhat)
Bayanit bash
3.8 Please
3.9 Sorry
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
Bibûre
3.10 Bye
नमस्ते (namaste)
Be xêr çî
3.11 I Love You
म तपाइलाइ माया गर्छु। (ma tapainlai maya garchu)
Ez te hez dikem
3.12 Excuse Me
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
Bê zehmet
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Nepal
northern Iraq, northern Syria, northwest Iran, southeast Turkey
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
790,000.0020,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
4.2.1 Where They Speak
India, Nepal
Iraq, Kurdistan Province of western Iran
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
NA5,000,000.00
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
Baitadeli
Southern Kurdish
4.3.1 Where They Speak
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
NA3,000,000.00
1400
96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
30.00 million28.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
25.00 million21.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
5.3.2 Native Name
नेपाली (nēpālī)
Kurdí / کوردی / к’öрди
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Eastern Pahadi, Gorkhali, Gurkhali, Khaskura, Nepalese, Parbate
Not Available
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
Not Available
Not Available
5.5 Ethnicity
Gurkha, Khas people, Madhesi and Tharu
Kurds
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
Not Available
6.3.2 Standard Forms
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Signed Nepali
Not Available
6.4 Scope
Individual, Macrolanguage
Macrolanguage
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-Object-Verb
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
Not Available