Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Nepali is the national language of Nepal. Besides being spoken as a mother tongue by more than 48% of the population of Nepal, it is also spoken in Bhutan and India. The language is recognized in the Nepali constitution as an official language of Nepal. The variety presented here is standard Nepali as spoken in Nepal.
Nepali (English: / n ɪ ˈ p ɔː l i /; [3] Devanagari: नेपाली, ), or Gorkhali [4] [5] [6] is an Indo-Aryan language native to the Himalayas region of South Asia. It is the official, and most widely spoken, language of Nepal , where it also serves as a lingua franca .
Also included is a 2000 Gurung-Nepali-English dictionary produced by the Tamu Bauddha Sewa Samiti Nepal (Gurung Culture Organization), [19] which also uses a modified Devanagari, and which also includes numerals (e.g., मी1 / mi / 'eye' vs. मी2 / mi / 'name') to indicate tone category for individual words. A 2020 Gurung-English-Nepali ...
In Nepali the locus of grammatical function or "case-marking" lies within a system of agglutinative suffixes or particles known as postpositions, which parallel English's prepositions. There is a number of such one-word primary postpositions: ko – genitive marker; variably declinable in the manner of an adjective.
Please keep this category purged of everything that is not actually an article about a word or phrase. See as example Category:English words . Pages in category "Nepali words and phrases"
It provides a set of symbols to represent the pronunciation of Nepali in Wikipedia articles, and example words that illustrate the sounds that correspond to them. Integrity must be maintained between the key and the transcriptions that link here; do not change any symbol or value without establishing consensus on the talk page first.
The word grammar often has divergent meanings when used in contexts outside linguistics. It may be used more broadly to include orthographic conventions of written language, such as spelling and punctuation, which are not typically considered part of grammar by linguists; that is, the conventions used for writing a language
Although Nepali is the native language, English is the primary language used for business in Nepal. In Nepal, where modern English education began in the 1850s, there is little or no consensus among teachers and practitioners on whether to follow British , American or Indian variants of English, or allow the development of a Nepal-specific ...