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 |
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| Standard | |
| 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 | |
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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
*The graph shows a rough estimate of Nepali speakers in countries where it is an official or minority language.
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- What is Localizely?
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- AI Translation
- Translation Memory
- Glossary
- Reports and Statistics
- Figma integration
- AWS S3 integration
- GitHub integration
- GitLab integration
- Bitbucket integration
- CLI
- Configuration file
- Supported file formats
- Language & Country Codes
- Referral Program
- FAQ
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- What is Localizely?
- Getting started
- Localization workflow
- Translation editor
- Flutter Over-the-Air updates
- Flutter In-Context Editing
- Project branching
- Professional translation services
- Machine Translation
- AI Translation
- Translation Memory
- Glossary
- Reports and statistics
- Figma integration
- AWS S3 integration
- GitHub integration
- GitLab integration
- Bitbucket integration
- CLI
- Configuration file
- Supported file formats
- Language & Country Codes
- Referral Program
- I18N Questions
- FAQ