Nepali language

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Nepali is the official language of Nepal and is the mother tongue of the majority of the population.


Nepali
Nepalese, Gorkhali, Gurkhali, Khaskura, Parbatiya, Eastern Pahari
Spoken in Nepal, Bhutan, India
Total speakers 17,209,255 [1]
Language family Indo-European
 Indo-Iranian
  Indo-Aryan
   Eastern Pahari
Language codes
ISO 639-1 ne
ISO 639-2 nep
ISO 639-3 nep
Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. See IPA chart for English for an English-based pronunciation key.