Language code: ne

Technical information about ISO 639 language code ne

The table below provides technical details for the Nepali language, designated by the ne code from the ISO 639-1 standard.

Code

ne

Name

Official

Nepali

Native

नेपाली

Family
Indo-Aryan
Scripts
Text direction

Left-to-Right

Plural rules

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Nepali belongs to the Indo-European language family, more specifically to the Indo-Aryan subgroup. It is the official language of Nepal, and it is also used in Sikkim and West Bengal in India. It is written using the Devanagari script. It is estimated that there are more than 19 million speakers worldwide.

Language presence globally

Speakers

2.9M

*The graph shows a rough estimate of Nepali speakers in countries where it is an official or minority language.

Related locale codes

ne-IN Nepali (India)

ne-NP Nepali (Nepal)

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