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Nepali vs Spanish


Countries

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   

Total No. Of Countries
46   
1
2   
13

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

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

Alphabets
27   
9
48   
28

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
5   
2
12   
9

How Many Consonants
22   
12
36   
26

Scripts
Latin   
Devanagari   

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

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
6   
5
6   
5

Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks   
6
44 weeks   
11

Greetings

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)   

Dialects

Dialect 1
Mexican Spanish   
Doteli   

Where They Speak
Mexico   
Nepal   

How Many People Speak
105,000,000.00   
5
790,000.00   
30

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   

Total No. Of Dialects
21   
19
12   
12

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
489.00 million   
3
30.00 million   
36

Speaking Population
6.15 %   
3
0.25 %   
99+

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   

History

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   

Language Position
2   
2
59   
99+

Signed Forms
Signed Spanish   
Signed Nepali   

Scope
Individual   
Individual, Macrolanguage   

Code

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   

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Spanish and Nepali Language History

Comparison of Spanish vs Nepali language history gives us differences between origin of Spanish and Nepali language. History of Spanish language states that this language originated in 210 BC 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 Spanish and Nepali Language History.

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

Spanish vs Nepali Difficulty

The Spanish vs Nepali difficulty level basically depends on the number of Spanish 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 Spanish and Nepali are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Spanish and Nepali, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Spanish is 24 weeks while to learn Nepali time required is 44 weeks.

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