How similar are the Nepali and Hindi languages?

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Anuradha Singh

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Nepali and Hindi both belong to what linguists call 'Indo-European Language Family'. They're cousins already! However, one thing is that Nepali and Hindi both have their roots from an older language: Sanskrit. Yes, Sanskrit is the grandaddy of Nepali, Hindi and couple of other languages like Marathi...
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Nepali and Hindi both belong to what linguists call 'Indo-European Language Family'. They're cousins already! However, one thing is that Nepali and Hindi both have their roots from an older language: Sanskrit. Yes, Sanskrit is the grandaddy of Nepali, Hindi and couple of other languages like Marathi and Bengali read less
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Nepali is the language spoken in Nepal, which is now not a part of India and Hindi is spoken in majority parts of India. Yes, we do have little similarity and influences of both the languages.
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Nepali is the language in which the sentences and their pronunciation may be different. But, many words and their meanings are similar or mostly same in both Hindi and Nepali. This doesn't mean that all are same but most of the words with their meaning are same. But, खाना in Hindi= खानु in Nepali ( as...
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Nepali is the language in which the sentences and their pronunciation may be different. But, many words and their meanings are similar or mostly same in both Hindi and Nepali. This doesn't mean that all are same but most of the words with their meaning are same. But, खाना in Hindi= खानु in Nepali ( as a verb).. read less
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nepali and hindi both use same devnagiri script
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There are a lot of similarities so much so that if you spend few weeks with nepalis you would grasp it easily.
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I will say pretty similar, both are written in Devanagiri script for starters.
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Hindi and nepali are very similar languages.in this languages many words are similar.if you are a native hindi speker you can already understand nepali in bits and parts even if you hear it for the first time.
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Very similar. Many words are common in both the language with the slight difference in pronunciations.
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many words and their meanings are similar or mostly same in both Hindi and Nepali. This doesn't mean that all are same but most of the words with their meaning are same.
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