How close are Hindi and Nepali?

How close are Hindi and Nepali?

Both countries are multilingual. While Hindi is spoken by about 180 million natives, Nepali is spoken by 13.9 million natives. Nepali or Nepalese is spoken by 70 percent of the people in Nepal, and Hindi is spoken by a mere 41 percent of the people in India.

Are Hindi and Urdu mutually intelligible?

Depending on who you ask, Hindi and Urdu can be classified either as a single language written in two different scripts or as two unique languages. For the most part, the two languages are mutually intelligible in spoken form.

Which Indian languages are mutually intelligible?

Languages of Nepal. The 2011 National census lists 123 Nepalese languages spoken as a mother tongue (first language) in Nepal. Most belong to the Indo-Aryan and Sino-Tibetan language families. The official language of Nepal is Nepali, formerly called Khas-Kura then Gorkhali.

Where is Nepali spoken?

Nepali language, also called Gurkha, Gorkhali, Gurkhali, or Khaskura, member of the Pahari subgroup of the Indo-Aryan group of the Indo-Iranian division of the Indo-European languages. Nepali is spoken by more than 17 million people, mostly in Nepal and neighbouring parts of India.