Langenesis

Indo-European family

Nepali

c. 1200 CE – today Living

Nepali (c. 1200 CE – today) is a living Indo-European language. Lineage: Proto-Indo-European → Proto-Indo-Iranian → … → Shauraseni Prakrit → Shauraseni Apabhramsha → Nepali.

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Speakers
19M (19,000,000)
ISO 639-3
npi
Glottocode
nepa1254

Eastern Pahari (Northern Indo-Aryan), from the Khas language of western Nepal; earliest inscriptions c. 13th c. Its Middle Indo-Aryan ancestry is debated; parented here to Western Apabhraṃśa as a simplification.

Lineage

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4,500 BCE – 2,500 BCE
  2. Proto-Indo-Iranianc. 2,500 BCE – 1,800 BCE
  3. Proto-Indo-Aryanc. 1,800 BCE – 1,500 BCE
  4. Vedic Sanskritc. 1,500 BCE – 500 BCE
  5. Shauraseni Prakritc. 300 BCE – 600 CE
  6. Shauraseni Apabhramshac. 600 CE – 1200 CE
  7. Nepalic. 1200 CE – today

Sister languages 3

Also descended from Shauraseni Apabhramsha.

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