Country Info

Nepal Languages

Below you can see all the written languages used in this country. View All Countries for the list of all world countries, or All Languages for all the written languages of the world.

There are 16,866,588 people (57% of Nepal) that can read or write at least one language.

30 Writing Systems used in Nepal

Nepali (Devanagari)

ne-deva
language code
12,929,092
people

Maithili (Devanagari)

mai-deva
language code
3,232,273
people

Bhojpuri (Devanagari)

bho-deva
language code
1,998,132
people

Newari (Devanagari)

new-deva
language code
969,681
people

Jumli (Devanagari)

jml-deva
language code
940,297
people

English (Latin)

en-latn
language code
881,529
people

Eastern Tamang (Devanagari)

taj-deva
language code
881,529
people

Dotyali (Devanagari)

dty-deva
language code
734,607
people

Awadhi (Devanagari)

awa-deva
language code
646,454
people

Dangaura Tharu (Devanagari)

thl-deva
language code
587,686
people

Bantawa (Devanagari)

bap-deva
language code
440,764
people

Western Tamang (Devanagari)

tdg-deva
language code
381,995
people

Rana Tharu (Devanagari)

thr-deva
language code
352,611
people

Limbu (Devanagari)

lif-deva
language code
323,227
people

Eastern Magar (Devanagari)

mgp-deva
language code
323,227
people

Kochila Tharu (Devanagari)

thq-deva
language code
293,843
people

Western Magar (Devanagari)

mrd-deva
language code
243,889
people

Bagheli (Devanagari)

bfy-deva
language code
158,675
people

Sherpa (Devanagari)

xsr-deva
language code
152,798
people

Rajbanshi (Devanagari)

rjs-deva
language code
129,290
people

(Devanagari)

tsf-deva
language code
126,352
people

Eastern Gurung (Devanagari)

ggn-deva
language code
123,414
people

Hindi (Devanagari)

hi-deva
language code
123,414
people

Western Gurung (Devanagari)

gvr-deva
language code
85,214
people

Tibetan (Tibetan)

bo-tibt
language code
70,522
people

Kathoriya Tharu (Devanagari)

tkt-deva
language code
70,522
people

Thulung (Devanagari)

tdh-deva
language code
35,261
people

Bangla (Bangla)

bn-beng
language code
27,621
people

Mundari (Devanagari)

unr-deva
language code
5,583
people

Lepcha (Lepcha)

lep-lepc
language code
2,820
people

References

Our data is sourced from a number of places. We use ISO639 codes for the country codes. The language code we are showing is non-standard and combines the language short name with the script shortname. The population numbers, country names and script names come from the Unicode CLDR dataset.

  1. Unicode CLDR