Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Hindi is spoken as a first language by about 77,569 people in Nepal according to the 2011 Nepal census, and further by 1,225,950 people as a second language. [87] A Hindi proponent, Indian-born Paramananda Jha , was elected vice-president of Nepal.
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.
Article 6: All native languages spoken in Nepal are National languages of Nepal. Article 7a: The Nepali language in Devanagari script is used for Nepal government work. Article 7b: Beside Nepali, the provinces can choose one or more other languages spoken by majority population of that province for government work.
South Asia is home to several hundred languages, spanning the countries of Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka. It is home to the fourth most spoken language in the world, Hindi–Urdu; the seventh most spoken language, Bengali; and thirteenth most spoken language, Punjabi.
The Sino-Tibetan family of Nepal's languages forms a part of its Tibeto-Burman group. Though spoken by relatively fewer people than the Indo-European family (17.3% [7] of population), it includes a greater number of languages, about 63 languages. Languages belonging to this group are Tamang, Nepal Bhasa (Newar), Magar, Limbu, etc.
Nepali is the third-most spoken language in the Australian state of Tasmania, where it is spoken by 1.3% of its population, [51] and fifth-most spoken language in the Northern Territory, Australia, spoken by 1.3% of its population. [52] Nepali is the most spoken language other than English in Rockdale and Kogarah.
The Tharu (Tharu: थारु, Hindi: थरुवा) or Tharuhat (Nepali: थरुहट) languages are any of the Indo-Aryan languages spoken by the Tharu people of the Terai region in Nepal, and neighboring regions of Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh and Bihar in India. [5] [4] Tharu languages are spoken in the Tharu community.
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.