Countries
India, Nepal
  
Brunei, Malaysia, Singapore
  
National Language
Nepal
  
Malaysia
  
Second Language
Republic of Brazil
  
Indonesia
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
People's Republic of China
  
Thailand
  
Regulated By
Language Academy of Nepal
  
Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka
  
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.
  
- One of the most politically powerful language historically is Malaysian Language.
- Malaysian earliest known inscriptions were found in South of Sumatra way back in 683-6 AD.
  
Similar To
Hindi
  
Indonesian Language
  
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
  
Tamil Language
  
Alphabets in
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Malaysian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Devanagari
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Not Available
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
नमस्ते (namaste)
  
Hai
  
Thank You
धन्यवाद (dhanyabad)
  
terima kasih
  
How Are You?
तिमीलाई कस्तो छ? (timi lai kasto cha?)
  
Apa khabar?
  
Good Night
शुभ रात्री (subha ratri)
  
Selamat Malam
  
Good Evening
शुभ सन्ध्या (subha sandhya)
  
Selamat Petang
  
Good Afternoon
Good afternoon
  
Selamat tengah hari
  
Good Morning
शुभ प्रभात (subha prabhat)
  
Selamat pagi
  
Please
कृपया
  
sila
  
Sorry
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
  
maaf
  
Bye
नमस्ते (namaste)
  
Selamat tinggal
  
I Love You
म तपाइलाइ माया गर्छु। (ma tapainlai maya garchu)
  
Saya sayang kamu
  
Excuse Me
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
  
Maafkan saya
  
Dialect 1
Doteli
  
Bengkulu
  
Where They Speak
Nepal
  
Bengkulu Province, Sumatra
  
How Many People Speak
1,600,000.00
  
25
Dialect 2
Bajhangi
  
Pekal
  
Where They Speak
India, Nepal
  
Indonesia
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Baitadeli
  
Musi
  
Where They Speak
Nepal
  
Indonesia
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
3,100,000.00
  
11
How Many People Speak?
30.00 million
  
36
175.00 million
  
10
Native Speakers
25.00 million
  
32
77.00 million
  
12
Second Language Speakers
5.00 million
  
29
98.00 million
  
8
Native Name
नेपाली (nēpālī)
  
Bahasa melayu
  
Alternative Names
Eastern Pahadi, Gorkhali, Gurkhali, Khaskura, Nepalese, Parbate
  
Not Available
  
French Name
népalais
  
malais
  
German Name
Nepali
  
Malaiisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
[baˈhasə malajˈsiə]
  
Ethnicity
Gurkha, Khas people, Madhesi and Tharu
  
Not Available
  
Origin
19 BC
  
c. 683 AD
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Austronesian Family
  
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
  
Not Available
  
Branch
Indic
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Khas language, Gurkhali, Parbatiya, Dzongkha Lhotshammikha
  
Ancient Malay, Old Malay, Pre-Modern MalayClassical Malay,
  
Standard Forms
Nepali
  
Pluricentric Standard Malay
  
Signed Forms
Signed Nepali
  
Malaysian Sign Language
  
Scope
Individual, Macrolanguage
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
ne
  
ms
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
nep
  
msa
  
ISO 639 2/B
nep
  
may
  
ISO 639 3
npi
  
zsm
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
nepa1254
  
stan1306
  
Linguasphere
12
  
No data available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Not Available
  
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
  
Agglutinative
  
Nepali and Malaysian 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 Malaysian greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Nepali and Malaysian language. Nepali word for "Hello" is नमस्ते (namaste) or Malaysian word for "Thank You" is terima kasih. Find more of such common Nepali Greetings and Malaysian Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Nepali vs Malaysian Difficulty
The Nepali vs Malaysian difficulty level basically depends on the number of Nepali Alphabets and Malaysian 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 Malaysian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Nepali and Malaysian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Nepali is 44 weeks while to learn Malaysian time required is 36 weeks.