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Nepali
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Introduction:-
Nepali (Nepalese) is a member of the Indo-Aryan branch of the
Indo-European language family. It is spoken by 11 million people
in Nepal, 6 million people in India, and 156,000 in Bhutan. The
total number of speakers of Nepali Nepalis over 17 million (Ethnologue).
The language Nepal mapgoes by several names. The term Nepali
(Nepalese) is generally used by English speakers. It is also
called Gorkhali, 'the languages of the Gurkhas' or Parbatiya,
'the language of the mountains.' It was originally known as
Khas-Kura, the language Nepalof the Khasa kingdom, which ruled
over areas in the foothills of what is present-day Nepal in the
13th-14th centuries AD.
Nepali is believed to have developed from a variety of Prakrit
spoken in India in the 8th-13th centuries AD which spread to
what is now Nepal around the 10th century AD. Written Nepali is
attested in documents dating back to the 13th century.