Countries
West Java
  
India, Nepal
  
National Language
Indonesia
  
Nepal
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Republic of Brazil
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
People's Republic of China
  
Regulated By
Not Available
  
Language Academy of Nepal
  
Interesting Facts
- The Sundanese language is second most widely spoken regional language in Indonesia.
  
- 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
Madurese and Malay Languages
  
Hindi
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Sanskrit Language
  
Alphabets in
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Nepali-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Alphabets
Not Available
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin, Sundanese
  
Devanagari
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Language Levels
Not Available
  
Time Taken to Learn
Not Available
  
Hello
Halo
  
नमस्ते (namaste)
  
Thank You
Nuhun
  
धन्यवाद (dhanyabad)
  
How Are You?
Kumaha kabarna?
  
तिमीलाई कस्तो छ? (timi lai kasto cha?)
  
Good Night
Wilujeng kulem
  
शुभ रात्री (subha ratri)
  
Good Evening
Wilujeng wengi
  
शुभ सन्ध्या (subha sandhya)
  
Good Afternoon
Wilujeng siang
  
Good afternoon
  
Good Morning
Wilujeng énjing
  
शुभ प्रभात (subha prabhat)
  
Please
Mangga
  
कृपया
  
Sorry
Hapunten
  
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
  
Bye
Wilujeng angkat
  
नमस्ते (namaste)
  
I Love You
Abdi bogoh ka anjeun
  
म तपाइलाइ माया गर्छु। (ma tapainlai maya garchu)
  
Excuse Me
Punten
  
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
  
Dialect 1
Western dialect
  
Doteli
  
Where They Speak
Banten
  
Nepal
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Northern dialect
  
Bajhangi
  
Where They Speak
Bogor
  
India, Nepal
  
Dialect 3
Priangan dialect
  
Baitadeli
  
Where They Speak
Bandung
  
Nepal
  
How Many People Speak?
39.00 million
  
32
30.00 million
  
36
Native Speakers
38.00 million
  
26
25.00 million
  
32
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
5.00 million
  
29
Native Name
Not Available
  
नेपाली (nēpālī)
  
Alternative Names
Priangan, Sunda
  
Eastern Pahadi, Gorkhali, Gurkhali, Khaskura, Nepalese, Parbate
  
French Name
soundanais
  
népalais
  
German Name
Sundanesisch
  
Nepali
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Sundanese, Bantenese, Cirebonese, Badui
  
Gurkha, Khas people, Madhesi and Tharu
  
Origin
5th century AD
  
19 BC
  
Language Family
Austronesian Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Indonesian
  
Indo-Iranian
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Indic
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
Khas language, Gurkhali, Parbatiya, Dzongkha Lhotshammikha
  
Standard Forms
Sundanese
  
Nepali
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Signed Nepali
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual, Macrolanguage
  
ISO 639 1
su
  
ne
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
sun
  
nep
  
ISO 639 2/B
sun
  
nep
  
ISO 639 3
sun
  
npi
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
sund1251
  
nepa1254
  
Linguasphere
No data available
  
12
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Agglutinative
  
Sundanese and Nepali Speaking population
Sundanese and Nepali speaking population is one of the factors based on which Sundanese and Nepali languages can be compared. The total count of Sundanese and Nepali Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Sundanese language is 0.57 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Nepali language is 0.25 %. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak Sundanese and Nepali on Sundanese vs Nepali where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Sundanese and Nepali Language Codes
Sundanese and Nepali language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Sundanese and Nepali Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.