नेपाली
Lingo7 lets you read books with a translation under every sentence in 49 languages. Nepali is not one of them yet. Ask for it below, and see what adding it takes and what reading Nepali involves.
Lingo7 does not read Nepali yet: the app has no Nepali dictionary, audio or shelf of books. You can vote for Nepali here. Leave your email to vote; we add the most requested languages first and write to you once, when Nepali is ready.
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The demo below is the live reader with a German book. Nepali would work the same way once it is added.
Spoken in: Nepal; India (Sikkim, the Darjeeling hills of West Bengal); Bhutan
Nepali is written in Devanagari, the same script as Hindi and Marathi, and like Hindi it ends a sentence with a vertical bar, the danda (।). A reader who knows Hindi can sound out Nepali from the first page. The grammar is different, though: "is" is छ where Hindi has है, and verb endings change with the person and with the level of respect.
Respect is built into the grammar. Nepali has three main levels, and more in some dialects: तँ, तिमी and तपाईं all mean "you", from the lowest level to the polite one, and हजुर is more polite still. Each takes its own verb ending, as in तँ खान्छस् and तिमी खान्छौ (you eat), so the verbs in a dialogue tell a reader how the speakers stand to each other.
Bhanubhakta Acharya, honoured as the first poet of Nepali, was the first to translate the Ramayana from Sanskrit into Nepali, in the 19th century. Laxmi Prasad Devkota's Muna Madan (1936), a long poem in the metre of rice-planting songs, is studied in schools and remains one of the most commercially successful Nepali books. For a start, StoryWeaver, a free online library, has a few hundred illustrated stories in Nepali.
Our free tools cover the 49 languages in the app.
There is no date yet. We add the most requested languages first, and Nepali needs the work described on this page. Leave your email in the form and we will write to you once, when Nepali is ready.
Not yet. Lingo7 has no Nepali dictionary, audio or shelf of books, so a Nepali book would not get the sentence-by-sentence translation and word lookups the app is built on. The 49 languages it does read are listed on the home page.
One vote per email address per language. The count on this page shows a number once at least 10 people have asked, and refreshes within a minute of a new vote. Your email is stored only to tell you when Nepali launches, and deleted whenever you ask at support@lingoseven.com.
You can read it aloud, since both use Devanagari, and you will recognize many words that both languages took from Sanskrit. The grammar is different, from the verb "to be" (छ in Nepali, है in Hindi) to the verb endings, so understanding a text takes study of its own.
Because the language marks respect in its grammar. The pronouns run from the lowest level, तँ, through तिमी to the polite तपाईं and the more polite हजुर, and each takes its own verb forms. A reader learns them early, since dialogue in stories uses all of them.