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Russian vs Nepali


Nepali vs Russian


Countries

Countries
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan   
India, Nepal   

Total No. Of Countries
4   
11
2   
13

National Language
Russia   
Nepal   

Second Language
Afganistan   
Republic of Brazil   

Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe   
Asia   

Minority Language
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, Poland, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan   
People's Republic of China   

Regulated By
Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences   
Language Academy of Nepal   

Interesting Facts
  • In Russian language, the words are not pronounced as they are written.
  • In Russian language, there are only 200,000 words out of which only few words are used and due to this many words have more than one meaning.
  
  • 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.
  

Similar To
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages   
Hindi   

Derived From
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary   
Sanskrit Language   

Alphabets

Alphabets in
Russian-Alphabets.jpg#200   
Nepali-Alphabets.jpg#200   

Alphabets
33   
15
48   
28

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
10   
7
12   
9

How Many Consonants
21   
11
36   
26

Scripts
Cyrillic   
Devanagari   

Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal   
Left-To-Right, Horizontal   

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
6   
5
6   
5

Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks   
11
44 weeks   
11

Greetings

Hello
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)   
नमस्ते (namaste)   

Thank You
спасибо(spasibo)   
धन्यवाद (dhanyabad)   

How Are You?
Как дела? (Kak dela?)   
तिमीलाई कस्तो छ? (timi lai kasto cha?)   

Good Night
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)   
शुभ रात्री (subha ratri)   

Good Evening
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)   
शुभ सन्ध्या (subha sandhya)   

Good Afternoon
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')   
Good afternoon   

Good Morning
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)   
शुभ प्रभात (subha prabhat)   

Please
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)   
कृपया   

Sorry
Извините(Izvinite)   
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)   

Bye
до свидания(do svidaniya)   
नमस्ते (namaste)   

I Love You
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)   
म तपाइलाइ माया गर्छु। (ma tapainlai maya garchu)   

Excuse Me
извините(izvinite)   
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)   

Dialects

Dialect 1
Doukhobor Russian   
Doteli   

Where They Speak
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan   
Nepal   

How Many People Speak
30,000.00   
99+
790,000.00   
30

Dialect 2
Olonets   
Bajhangi   

Where They Speak
Olonets   
India, Nepal   

Dialect 3
Novgorod   
Baitadeli   

Where They Speak
Novgorod   
Nepal   

Total No. Of Dialects
13   
13
12   
12

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
276.00 million   
6
30.00 million   
36

Speaking Population
2.33 %   
9
0.25 %   
99+

Native Speakers
166.00 million   
8
25.00 million   
32

Second Language Speakers
110.00 million   
7
5.00 million   
29

Native Name
Русский   
नेपाली (nēpālī)   

Alternative Names
Russki   
Eastern Pahadi, Gorkhali, Gurkhali, Khaskura, Nepalese, Parbate   

French Name
russe   
népalais   

German Name
Russisch   
Nepali   

Pronunciation
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]   
Not Available   

Ethnicity
Russians   
Gurkha, Khas people, Madhesi and Tharu   

History

Origin
1000 AD   
19 BC   

Language Family
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family   
Indo-European Family   

Subgroup
Slavic   
Indo-Iranian   

Branch
Eastern   
Indic   

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
Old East Slavic   
Khas language, Gurkhali, Parbatiya, Dzongkha Lhotshammikha   

Standard Forms
Standard Russian   
Nepali   

Language Position
7   
7
59   
99+

Signed Forms
Signed Russian   
Signed Nepali   

Scope
Individual   
Individual, Macrolanguage   

Code

ISO 639 1
ru   
ne   

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
rus   
nep   

ISO 639 2/B
rus   
nep   

ISO 639 3
rus   
npi   

ISO 639 6
Not Available   
Not Available   

Glottocode
russ1263   
nepa1254   

Linguasphere
53-AAA-ea   
12   

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Living   
Living   

Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object   
Subject-Object-Verb   

Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic   
Agglutinative   

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Russian and Nepali Language History

Comparison of Russian vs Nepali language history gives us differences between origin of Russian and Nepali language. History of Russian language states that this language originated in 1000 AD whereas history of Nepali language states that this language originated in 19 BC. Family of the language also forms a part of history of that language. More on language families of these languages can be found out on Russian and Nepali Language History.

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Russian and Nepali 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 Russian and Nepali greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Russian and Nepali language. Russian word for "Hello" is здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte) or Nepali word for "Thank You" is धन्यवाद (dhanyabad). Find more of such common Russian Greetings and Nepali Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.

Russian vs Nepali Difficulty

The Russian vs Nepali difficulty level basically depends on the number of Russian Alphabets and Nepali 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 Russian and Nepali are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Russian and Nepali, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Russian is 44 weeks while to learn Nepali time required is 44 weeks.

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