Countries
Andora, Argentina, Aruba, Australia, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea, France, Gibraltar, Guatemala, Honduras, Jamaica, Latvia, Luxembourg, Mexico, Morocco, Namibia, Netherlands Antilles, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Norway, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Puerto Rico, Russia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Trinidad and Tobago, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States of America, Uruguay, Venezuela, Western Sahara
  
India, Nepal
  
National Language
Spain
  
Nepal
  
Second Language
Andora, Aruba, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Belize, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Jamaica, Luxembourg, Morocco, Netherlands, Netherlands Antilles, New Zealand, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Slovenia, Switzerland, Trinidad and Tobago, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States of America, US Virgin Islands
  
Republic of Brazil
  
Speaking Continents
Africa, Asia, Europe, North America, South America
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Brazil, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Morocco, United Kingdom
  
People's Republic of China
  
Regulated By
Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española
  
Language Academy of Nepal
  
Interesting Facts
- One of the world's most phonetic language is Spanish.
- Up to the 18th century, Spanish was diplomatic language.
  
- 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
French Language
  
Hindi
  
Derived From
Latin
  
Sanskrit Language
  
Alphabets in
Spanish-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Nepali-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Devanagari
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
hola
  
नमस्ते (namaste)
  
Thank You
Gracias
  
धन्यवाद (dhanyabad)
  
How Are You?
Cómo estás?
  
तिमीलाई कस्तो छ? (timi lai kasto cha?)
  
Good Night
Buenas Noches
  
शुभ रात्री (subha ratri)
  
Good Evening
Bonne soirée
  
शुभ सन्ध्या (subha sandhya)
  
Good Afternoon
Buenas Tardes
  
Good afternoon
  
Good Morning
Buenos Días
  
शुभ प्रभात (subha prabhat)
  
Please
Por Favor
  
कृपया
  
Sorry
triste
  
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
  
Bye
adiós
  
नमस्ते (namaste)
  
I Love You
Te Quiero
  
म तपाइलाइ माया गर्छु। (ma tapainlai maya garchu)
  
Excuse Me
Discúlpeme
  
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
  
Dialect 1
Mexican Spanish
  
Doteli
  
Where They Speak
Mexico
  
Nepal
  
How Many People Speak
105,000,000.00
  
5
Dialect 2
Cuban Spanish
  
Bajhangi
  
Where They Speak
Cuba
  
India, Nepal
  
How Many People Speak
11,000,000.00
  
8
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Puerto Rican Spanish
  
Baitadeli
  
Where They Speak
Puerto Rico
  
Nepal
  
How Many People Speak
3,900,000.00
  
9
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
489.00 million
  
3
30.00 million
  
36
Native Speakers
410.00 million
  
2
25.00 million
  
32
Second Language Speakers
89.50 million
  
9
5.00 million
  
29
Native Name
Español
  
नेपाली (nēpālī)
  
Alternative Names
Castellano, Castilian, Español
  
Eastern Pahadi, Gorkhali, Gurkhali, Khaskura, Nepalese, Parbate
  
French Name
espagnol; castillan
  
népalais
  
German Name
Spanisch
  
Nepali
  
Pronunciation
[espaˈɲol], [kasteˈʎano]
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Not Available
  
Gurkha, Khas people, Madhesi and Tharu
  
Origin
210 BC
  
19 BC
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Romance
  
Indo-Iranian
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Indic
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old Spanish and Spanish
  
Khas language, Gurkhali, Parbatiya, Dzongkha Lhotshammikha
  
Standard Forms
Pluricentric Standard Spanish
  
Nepali
  
Signed Forms
Signed Spanish
  
Signed Nepali
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual, Macrolanguage
  
ISO 639 1
es
  
ne
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
spa
  
nep
  
ISO 639 2/B
spa
  
nep
  
ISO 639 3
spa
  
npi
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
stan1288
  
nepa1254
  
Linguasphere
51-AAA-b
  
12
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Agglutinative