1 Countries
1.1 Countries
India, Nepal
India, Nepal
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
1.4 Second Language
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.
- Earlier, Maithili language was considered as the dialect of Hindi and Bengali, however in the year 2003 Maithili achieved an independent language status in India.
- Maithili has rich literature.
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
2.5 Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Not Available
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)
dhanyabad
3.3 How Are You?
तिमीलाई कस्तो छ? (timi lai kasto cha?)
Aahan kehan chhi ?
3.4 Good Night
शुभ रात्री (subha ratri)
Śubharātri
3.5 Good Evening
शुभ सन्ध्या (subha sandhya)
shubh sandhya
3.6 Good Afternoon
Good afternoon
dopahar ke bad namaskar
3.7 Good Morning
शुभ प्रभात (subha prabhat)
Suprabhaat
3.8 Please
3.9 Sorry
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
maf karai
3.10 Bye
3.11 I Love You
म तपाइलाइ माया गर्छु। (ma tapainlai maya garchu)
hawm ahāṃ se prem karechi
3.12 Excuse Me
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
kripaya
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
790,000.00NA
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
4.2.1 Where They Speak
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
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 million32.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
25.00 million27.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
5.00 million2.80 million
0.01
400
5.3.2 Native Name
नेपाली (nēpālī)
मैथिली (mɛtʰilī)
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Eastern Pahadi, Gorkhali, Gurkhali, Khaskura, Nepalese, Parbate
Apabhramsa, Bihari, Maitili, Maitli, Methli, Tirahutia, Tirhuti, Tirhutia
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
Maithil
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European 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
No early forms
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
Not Available
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
Not Available