1 Countries
1.1 Countries
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
Botswana, Mozambique, Zimbabwe
Nepal
1.4 Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Republic of Brazil
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
People's Republic of China
1.7 Regulated By
Not Available
Language Academy of Nepal
1.8 Interesting Facts
- Shona language is tonal language.
- The African people in Zimbabwe is made of 10 ethnic groups, each speaking a different languages, shona is spoken by 60 percent of population.
- 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.
1.9 Similar To
Kalanga and Nambya Language
Hindi
1.10 Derived From
Not Available
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
2.5 Writing Direction
Not Available
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
3.2 Thank You
Waita zvako
धन्यवाद (dhanyabad)
3.3 How Are You?
Wakadini zvako?
तिमीलाई कस्तो छ? (timi lai kasto cha?)
3.4 Good Night
Urare zvakanaka
शुभ रात्री (subha ratri)
3.5 Good Evening
Manheru
शुभ सन्ध्या (subha sandhya)
3.6 Good Afternoon
3.7 Good Morning
Mangwanani
शुभ प्रभात (subha prabhat)
3.8 Please
3.9 Sorry
Ndineurombo
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
3.10 Bye
3.11 I Love You
Ndinokuda
म तपाइलाइ माया गर्छु। (ma tapainlai maya garchu)
3.12 Excuse Me
Pamusoro
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
NA790,000.00
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
4.2.1 Where They Speak
southern Zimbabwe
India, Nepal
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
4.3 Dialect 3
4.3.1 Where They Speak
central Zimbabwe, Mashonaland
Nepal
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
25.00 million30.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
8.30 million25.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
5.3.2 Native Name
Not Available
नेपाली (nēpālī)
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Chishona, “Swina” (pej.), Zezuru
Eastern Pahadi, Gorkhali, Gurkhali, Khaskura, Nepalese, Parbate
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
Not Available
Not Available
5.5 Ethnicity
Not Available
Gurkha, Khas people, Madhesi and Tharu
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Indo-European Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
6.2.2 Branch
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
Not Available
Khas language, Gurkhali, Parbatiya, Dzongkha Lhotshammikha
6.3.2 Standard Forms
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Not Available
Signed Nepali
6.4 Scope
Individual
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
Not Available
Subject-Object-Verb
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
Agglutinative