Sunday, September 1, 2013

Nepal' Language

Nepal's diverse linguistic heritage evolved from four major language groups: Indo- aryan, Brahmin ,mongolian and various othe language.olates. The major languages of Nepal (percent spoken as mother tongue) according to the 2068 census thereare :Nepali (44.6%),maithali (11.7%), Bhojpuri (6.0%),tharu (5.8%), tamang(5.1%),Other(6.2%) and Magar (3.0%), Doteli  3.0%) and Urdu(2.6%) In addition, Nepal is home to at least four indigenous .We have different languages to speak in this country  but also most of the people in this country speaks Nepali as there mother tongue.  

  The languages  of this country is   derived from sanskrit, Nepali has roots in Sanskrit and is written indevnagari script. Nepali is the official national language and serves as lingua franca among Nepalis of different ethnolinguistic groups. Regional dialects Awadhi, Bhojpuri, Maithili and rarely Hindi are spoken in the southern Terai Region. Many Nepalis in government and business speak English as well. Dialects of Tibetan are spoken in and north of the higher Himalaya where standard literary Tibetan is widely understood by those with religious education. Local dialects in the Terai and hills are mostly unwritten with efforts underway to develop systems for writing many in Devanagari or the Roman alphabet.

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