1 Countries
1.1 Countries
India, Nepal
South Africa
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
1.4 Second Language
Republic of Brazil
Lesotho, South Africa
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
People's Republic of China
Botswana, Lesotho
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.
- Xhosa has 15 click sounds, borrowed from the khoi-khoi and san languages of the South Africa.
- The same sequence of consonants and vowels can have different meaning when said with different tones, so Xhosa is tonal.
1.9 Similar To
Hindi
Zulu, Swazi, and Ndebele
1.10 Derived From
Sanskrit Language
Khoi-Khoi and San 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
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)
Ndiyabulela
3.3 How Are You?
तिमीलाई कस्तो छ? (timi lai kasto cha?)
Unjani
3.4 Good Night
शुभ रात्री (subha ratri)
Ulale kakuhle
3.5 Good Evening
शुभ सन्ध्या (subha sandhya)
Ubusuku obuhle
3.6 Good Afternoon
Good afternoon
Uben' emva kwemini entle
3.7 Good Morning
शुभ प्रभात (subha prabhat)
Molo
3.8 Please
3.9 Sorry
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
Ndicela uxolo
3.10 Bye
नमस्ते (namaste)
Uhambe/Usale kakuhle
3.11 I Love You
म तपाइलाइ माया गर्छु। (ma tapainlai maya garchu)
Ndiyakuthanda
3.12 Excuse Me
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
Uxolo
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
India, Nepal
South Africa
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 million20.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
25.00 million8.20 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
5.00 million11.00 million
0.01
400
5.3.2 Native Name
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Eastern Pahadi, Gorkhali, Gurkhali, Khaskura, Nepalese, Parbate
“Cauzuh” (pej.), Isixhosa, Koosa, Xosa
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
amaXhosa, amaBhaca
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Indo-European Family
Niger-Congo Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
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
Signed Xhosa
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
Not Available