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Nepali

Learn about Nepali through verified cultural context, key facts, regions, traditions and references.

Family

Indo-Aryan

Where

Nationwide — official language of government and education

Speakers

≈ 44.9% mother tongue (2011 census)

Script

Devanagari

Note

The lingua franca that grew from the Khasa courts of the Karnali — its oldest inscriptions cluster in the Sinja Valley of Jumla.