1 Countries
1.1 Countries
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
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 earliest literature in Oriya was traced in 7th to 9th centuries.
- Since Odia is having a long literary history and has not borrowed largely from other languages, it is the 6th classical language in India.
1.9 Similar To
Hindi
Bengali and Assamese
1.10 Derived From
Sanskrit Language
Sanskrit Language
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
Bengali, Odia alphabet (Brahmic)
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
नमस्ते (namaste)
ନମସ୍କାର (namascara)
3.2 Thank You
धन्यवाद (dhanyabad)
ଧନ୍ୟବାଦ୍ (dhanyabaad)
3.3 How Are You?
तिमीलाई कस्तो छ? (timi lai kasto cha?)
କେମିତି ଅତ୍ଚନ୍ଥି? (kemiti achanti?)
3.4 Good Night
शुभ रात्री (subha ratri)
ସୁଭରାତ୍ର (shubharaatra)
3.5 Good Evening
शुभ सन्ध्या (subha sandhya)
ସୁଭସନ୍ଧ୍ୟା (subha sandhya)
3.6 Good Afternoon
Good afternoon
ସୁଭ ଖରା ବେଳ (shubha kharaa bela)
3.7 Good Morning
शुभ प्रभात (subha prabhat)
ସୁପ୍ରଭାତ (suprabhaata)
3.8 Please
3.9 Sorry
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
ମୁଁ ଦୁଃଖିତ (mū duḥkhita)
3.10 Bye
नमस्ते (namaste)
ସୁବିଦାୟ (shubidaaya)
3.11 I Love You
म तपाइलाइ माया गर्छु। (ma tapainlai maya garchu)
ମୁଁ ତୁମକୁ ଭଲ ପାଏ (mu tumoku bhala paye)
3.12 Excuse Me
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
କ୍ଷମା କରିବେ (kyamā karibe)
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
NA520,000.00
1400
96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
30.00 million33.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
25.00 million33.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
5.3.2 Native Name
नेपाली (nēpālī)
ଓଡ଼ିଆ (ōṛiyā)
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Eastern Pahadi, Gorkhali, Gurkhali, Khaskura, Nepalese, Parbate
Odisha, Odri, Odrum, Oliya, Uriya, Utkali, Vadiya, Yudhia
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
5.5 Ethnicity
Gurkha, Khas people, Madhesi and Tharu
Odias
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
No early forms
6.3.2 Standard Forms
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Signed Nepali
Indian Signing System
6.4 Scope
Individual, Macrolanguage
Individual, 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