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Nepali is the national language of Nepal. Besides being spoken as a mother tongue by more than 48% of the population of Nepal, it is also spoken in Bhutan and India. The language is recognized in the Nepali constitution as an official language of Nepal. The variety presented here is standard Nepali as spoken in Nepal.
This is the pronunciation key for IPA transcriptions of Nepali on Wikipedia. It provides a set of symbols to represent the pronunciation of Nepali in Wikipedia articles, and example words that illustrate the sounds that correspond to them.
Some letters have alternative forms that are used when combined with certain vowel diacritics or included in a consonant cluster. [28] Letter bha and ha changes appearance when combined with any of the vowel diacritics u, ū, ṛ, ṝ, ḷ and ḹ. Letter ja and ra forms ligatures together with the vowels u and ū.
Based loosely on the formulations in the American manual alphabet and International manual alphabet, [2] only the forms for the letters अ (from “a”), ब (from “b”), म (from “m”), and र (from “r”) can be said to derive directly from their Latin alphabet equivalent. All other letter finger-shapes are indigenous.
The Wikipedia page provides information about the structure and format of telephone numbers in Nepal.
Adjectives may be divided into declinable and indeclinable categories. Declinables are marked, through termination, for the gender and number of the nouns they qualify. The declinable endings are -o for the "masculine" singular, -ī for the feminine singular, and -ā for the plural. e.g. sāno kitāb "small book", sānī keṭī "small girl", sānā kalamharū "small pens".
Nepali written in the Devanagari script is the official language of Nepal. [37] [38] On 31 August 1992, Nepali was added to the list of scheduled languages of India. [39] Nepali is the official language of the state of Sikkim and Gorkhaland of West Bengal.
Letter in Nepal Bhasa and Nepal script dated 7 May 1924 sent from Lhasa to Kathmandu. Prachalit, also known as Newa, Newar, Newari, or Nepāla lipi is a type of abugida script developed from the Nepalese scripts, which are a part of the family of Brahmic scripts descended from Brahmi script. It is used to write Nepal Bhasa, Maithili, Sanskrit ...