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Language code: ne

Technical information about ISO 639 language code ne

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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
Text direction

Left-to-Right

Language varieties
Eastern NepaliCentral Nepali (Standard)Western NepaliFar-Western Nepali
Related languages
HindiKumaoniGarhwaliMaithili
Key facts
Written in the Devanagari script, read left-to-rightEarliest known inscription dates to the 13th centuryEvolved from the medieval Khas Kura of the Khas KingdomStandard phonology has 6 oral and 3 nasal vowels with contrastive aspiration in stopsVocabulary shows heavy historical borrowing from Sanskrit, Hindi and Tibetan.
Sample phrase

नमस्ते, तपाईंलाई कस्तो छ?

Character encodings

UTF-8, UTF-16, UTF-32

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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

Nepal

14M

India

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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