![]() Known as Mithilakshar or Tirhuta, for Bhojpuri it is Kaithi. Their own mature literature and may be written in their own distinctive script for Maithili the script is Note that cross border languages, and particularly Maithili and Bhojpuri, also have Writing of Limbu and Lepcha was probably only ever used for special cultural and religious texts, Newar writing was used for a wide range of purposes until the overthrow of their regime by the Gorkhas in the Suppressed by successive Nepalese governments from the late 18th century onwards until 1990. In a script evolved from the Tibetan script, which tradition claims was devised in the 17th or 18thĮthnologue only reports limited literacy for Newari and Limbu, not surprising since these languages were Lepcha (also known as Rong), with 2,826 speakers in Nepal but 48,000 in Sikkim in India, is written.Revived in the 17th century by Te-ongsi Sirijonga, and then revived again in 1925 when it was It is claimed to have been invented in the 9th century and then Limbu with 333,633 speakers in 2001, has a traditional script Sirijanga which was probably derivedįrom Lepcha writing.Is known as Nepal Bhasa within the linguistic community,Īnd has been written for over a thousand years in a number of scripts. Nepali, historically known as Khas, Parbatiya and Gorkhali, with 11,053,255 speakers in 2001, hasīeen written in Devanagari, the script used across north India and in particular for Hindi, for around.However only four of these purely Nepalese languages have any significant tradition of being written: Nepalese languages, only one of which, Nepali, is used in written form in all walks of life and can beĬonsidered fully literate however most of them have at least some limited use in writing. Note that 8 of them have much larger populations across theīorder in India, with one of these, Maithili, the second largest language of Nepal. Table 3, lists these 28 languages plus two others, with relevant characteristics extracted from Ethnologue. Is 28 languages, just under one third of the languages, in line with the proportion in the population of Written, we find that we should expect all languages down to and including Dhimal should be written this If we take Trosterud’s suggestion that at least those languages with more than 16,000 speakers should be Finally, if you like to support us then please donate or buy us a coffee at. ![]() ![]()
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