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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