Nepali to English Translation
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Nepali (नेपाली) is an Indo-Aryan language (Indo-European family), descended from the same roots as Sanskrit, spoken in Nepal, where it is the official language, and Sikkim and the Darjeeling hills in India. It is written in Devanagari: each consonant carries a built-in "a" sound, other vowels are added as signs (matras), and a line across the top (shirorekha) joins the letters of a word. About 29 lakh (2.9 million) people in India speak it as their first language (Census 2011).
English is a Germanic language (Indo-European family), spoken in countries around the world; in India it is used alongside Hindi for the official work of the Union government, in courts and in higher education. It is written in the Latin alphabet: an alphabet in which vowels and consonants are separate letters.
How Nepali and English compare
- Nepali is written in Devanagari and English in the Latin alphabet, so the translation changes the script as well as the words.
- Nepali and English are distant relatives in the Indo-European family (the Indo-Aryan and Germanic branches), but most everyday words are different.
- Nepali usually puts words in the order subject–object–verb, with the verb at the end; English uses subject–verb–object, so sentences are reordered in translation.
| Nepali | English | |
|---|---|---|
| Script | Devanagari | Latin alphabet |
| Letters | अ आ इ ई उ क ख ग | A B C D E F G H |
| Hello | नमस्ते | Hello |
| Thank you | धन्यवाद | Thank you |
| Written | Left to right | Left to right |
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