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A map showing languages of the Indian subcontinent c. 1858; It refers to the language as "Nepalee".. The term Nepali derived from Nepal was officially adopted by the Government of Nepal in 1933, when Gorkha Bhasa Prakashini Samiti (Gorkha Language Publishing Committee), a government institution established in 1913 (B.S. 1970) for advancement of Gorkha Bhasa, renamed itself as Nepali Bhasa ...
Tharu language is the fourth most commonly spoken language of Nepal accounting for 5.88% of total population of Nepal as per the 2021 census. [ 18 ] [ 19 ] According to The Constitution of Nepal 2015 (2072 B.S.) all native languages spoken in Nepal are National languages of Nepal including Tharu. [ 20 ]
Nepal's languages are mostly either Indo-European or Sino-Tibetan, while only a very few of them are Austro-Asiatic and Dravidian.. Out of 123 languages of Nepal, the 48 Indo-European languages, which are of the Indo-Aryan (Indic) sub-family (excluding English), constitute the largest group in terms of the numeric strength of their speakers, nearly 82.1% [8] of population.
Nepali is spoken by an estimated 29,100,000 people in Nepal, 265,000 people in Bhutan, and 2,500,000 people in India. It is an official language in Nepal and India. [4] Jumli is spoken by an estimated 40,000 people in the Karnali zone of Nepal. [5] Doteli spoken by an estimated 1 million people in far west Nepal.
Maithili (/ ˈ m aɪ t ɪ l i / MY-til-ee, [3] Maithili: [ˈməi̯tʰɪliː]) is an Indo-Aryan language spoken in parts of India and Nepal.It is native to the Mithila region, which encompasses parts of the eastern Indian states of Bihar and Jharkhand as well as the Nepal's Koshi and Madhesh Provinces.
Nepali grammar is the study of the morphology and syntax of Nepali, an Indo-European language spoken in ... may be reinforced by the influence of Hindi upon both ...
Rai (Hindi: राय; Urdu: رائے; Bengali: রায়; Nepali: राई) [1] is a surname in use since historical times on the Indian subcontinent ...
The Nepali/Gorkhali language is the lingua franca of Sikkim, while Tibetan (Bhutia) and Lepcha are spoken in certain areas. [ 17 ] [ 18 ] As per the 2011 Census, there were a total of 453,819 speakers of various Tibetan languages (Nepali – 382,200, Limbu – 38,733, Sherpa – 13,681, Tamang – 11,734 and Rai – 7,471).