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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.