Nepali language

Spoken in

  • Indo-European languages Indo-Iranian languages Indo-Aryan languages Nepali

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Nep

Nepali ( नेपाली, Nepali, named in reference to the English Nepalese Nepali or Nepali also ) belongs to the Indo-Aryan branch of the Indo-Iranian subgroup of the Indo-European languages ​​.

Overall, it is spoken by at least 17 ​​million people as a native language, who live mainly in Nepal, where it is the official language. In addition, there are about 6 million speakers in India and around 150,000 in Bhutan. Nepali is written in to other Indo-Aryan languages ​​, such as Hindi, Devanagari font used.

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