Nepali

नेपाली

Main information

Family	Indo-European
Branch	Indo-Iranian
Group	Indo-Aryan
	Indic
	Northern zone
Native speakers	18,475,460
Status	National
Region	Nepal, United Arab Emirates, Australia, Bangladesh, Bahrain, Brunei, Bhutan, Canada, Germany, Denmark, Spain, Finland, United Kingdom, China–Hong Kong, India, Japan, South Korea, Kuwait, Myanmar, Malaysia, Norway, New Zealand, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, United States

Characteristic

SOV; postpositions; noun head final; 11 noun classes or genders; no articles; content q-word in situ; 1 prefix, up to 5 suffixes; clause constituents indicated by case-marking (4 cases); verbal affixation marks person, number and gender of subject; split ergativity; both tense and aspect; passives and voice; causatives; non-tonal; 29 consonant and 11 vowel phonemes.

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