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Nepali language
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Nepali (नेपाली) is a language in the Indo-Aryan branch of the Indo-European language family.
It is the lingua-franca of Nepal and is also spoken in Bhutan, parts of India and parts of Myanmar (Burma). It is one of 23 official languages of India incorporated in 8th annex of the Indian Constitution. It has official language status in the formerly independent state of Sikkim and in West Bengal’s Darjeeling district. Similarly, it is widely spoken in the state of Uttaranchal, as well as in the state of Assam.
Nepali goes by various names. It was also called Gorkhali or Gurkhali (i.e., the language from Gorkha, which later gave its name to the famous Gurkhas). Other names for the language include Parbatiya (”mountain language”, identified with the Parbatiya people of Nepal) and Lhotshammikha (the “southern language” of the Lhotshampa people of Bhutan).
Historically, the language was first called Khaskura (literally, “speech of the Khas,” a people who were peasants in the Karnali-Bheri basin of far western Nepal since prehistoric times). Khaskura exists in opposition to Khamkura, a group of Tibeto-Burman dialects spoken by Kham peoples in the highlands separating the [Karnali-Bheri basin from the Gandaki basin in central Nepal.
The form Nepali first came into use when Nepal changed its name from Gorkha in 1930. Like Sanskrit and Hindi, Nepali is written in the Devanagari script.
Script
In matters of script, Nepali uses Devanagari. On this grammar page Nepali is written in "standard orientalist" transcription as outlined in Masica (1991:xv). Being "primarily a system of transliteration from the Indian scripts, [and] based in turn upon Sanskrit” (cf. IAST), these are its salient features: subscript dots for retroflex consonants; macrons for etymologically, contrastively long vowels; h denoting aspirated stops. Tildes denote nasalized vowels.
Vowels and consonants are outlined in the tables below. Hovering the mouse cursor over them will reveal the appropriate IPA symbol, while in the rest of the article hovering the mouse cursor over underlined forms will reveal the appropriate English translation.
Nēpālī (नेपाली)
from http://www.omniglot.com/writing/nepali.htm
Nepali is an Indo-Aryan language with around 17 million speakers in Nepal, Bhutan, Burma and India. Nepali was originally known as Khas Kurā and was the language of the Khasa kingdom, which ruled over the foothills of what is now Nepal during the 13th and 14th centuries.
Nepali first started to be used in writing during the 12th century AD. It is written with the Devanāgarī alphabet, which developed from the Brahmi script in the 11th century AD.
Devanāgarī alphabet for Nepali
Vowels and vowel diacritics
Consonants
Numerals
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