Nepali
Nepali is an Indo-Aryan language spoken in Nepal, Bhutan, Burma and India. Nepali was originally known as Khas Kurā and was the language of the Khasa kingdom, which ruled over the foothills of what is now Nepal during the 13th and 14th centuries.
Nepali first started to be used in writing during the 12th century AD. It is written with the Devanagari alphabet, which developed from the Brahmi script in the 11th century AD.
Number of speakers: 2,926,168 via: Census 2011
ISO 639-3 Language Code: nep
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Universal Declaration of Human Rights: Nepali
मानव अधिकारको विश्वव्यापी घोषणा मानव परिवारका सबै सदस्यहरूको अन्तर्निहित मान तथा सम्मान र अवछिन्न अधिकारहरूको मान्यता नै स्वतन्त्रता, न्याय, र शान्तिको आधार भएकोले, मानव अधिकारहरू प्रति अवहेलना तथा अनादरको परिणामबाटै नै काम भड मानव जातिको अन्त स्करणमा चिट पुर्याइएको हुनाले र मानवहरूले धर्म र वाक स्वन्त्रता तथा भए र अभावबाट मुक्ति पाउनु पर्छ भन्ने सर्व साधारण जनताको घोषित आकांक्षा भएकोले, अत्याचार र दमनको विरुद्ध अरू उपाय नपाएर विद्रोह गर्नू नै अन्तिम उपाय हो भन्ने नउठानुन हो भने मानव अधिकारहरू कानुनी शासनद्वारा संरक्षित रहनु अति आवश्यक भएकोले, राष्ट्रहरूका बीच मैत्री सम्बन्ध वृद्धि गर्न आवश्यक भएकोले संयुक्त राष्ट्र संघका जनता हरूले मानवका मौलिक अधिकारहरू र मनुष्यको मान तथा कदर र नर -नारीहरूको सम्मान अधिकारहरू प्रति पुनः विश्वासको पुस्ट्याइँ अधिकार पत्रमा गरि बढि स्वतन्त्रताको आधारमा सामाजिक प्रगति एवं जीवनको सदस्य राष्ट्रहरू र ती राष्ट्रहरूका अधिकारमा रहेका प्रादेशिक जनताहरूमा समेत ती अधिकारहरू र स्वतन्त्र हरू को विश्वव्यापी र प्रभावशाली मान्यता प्राप्त गर्नको लागि प्रत्येक व्यक्ति र समाजको अंगले निरन्तर मनमा राखि राष्ट्रिय र अन्तरराष्ट्रिय प्रगतिशील कदमहरू द्वारा यी अधिकार र सवतन्त्रताहरू प्रति दीक्षा तथा शिक्षाद्वारा श्रद्धा बढाउन प्रयत्न गरून् भनि साधारण सभाले मानव अधिकारको यस विश्वव्यापी घोषणालाई सबै जनता र राष्ट्रको निम्ति सजिया मापदण्ड भनि घोषणा गर्दछ
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Example of Nepali text
via: Internet Archive
Text Files
Nepali Word Frequency List
via: http://crubadan.org
PDFs
Nepali Grammar – Nepali language grammar and vocabulary
via: Internet Archive
Madhyacandrika – Nepali grammar
via: Internet Archive
Nepali Grammar and Vocabulary – Nepali learners’ book
via: Internet Archive
Nepali Lipi Prakash – Nepali script epigraphy
via: Internet Archive
A course in Nepali – Nepali learners’ book
via: Internet Archive
Golden News – Nepali newspaper
via: Internet Archive
Websites in Nepali
http://unicode.org
http://sahityaghar.com
http://ne.wikipedia.org
http://www.halkhabar.com.np
http://www.gorkhapatra.org.np
http://www.ekantipur.com
http://www.jw.org
http://www.kakabaa.com
http://www.nepalbritain.com
http://www.nepaljapan.com
http://www.nepalipost.com
http://www.sancharnepal.com
http://www.weeklynepal.com
Bibliography / Resources
Clark, Thomas Welbourne. 1963. Introduction to Nepali: a first year language course. Cambridge: Heffer. xvii+421pp.
David Matthews. 1984. A course in Nepali. London: SOAS. 354pp.
Banu Oja and Shambhu Oja. 2004. Nepali: A Beginner’s Primer. In Oja, Banu and Oja, Shambhu (eds.) Cornell Univ.: Ithaca: Department of Asian Studies, Cornell University. vi+218pp.
A. Turnbull. 1999 [1923]. Nepali Grammar & Vocabulary. New Delhi: Asian Educational Services. vi+185pp.
Sthapit, Shishir Kumar. 1978. English, Nepali and Newari: A comparison and its pedagogic applications. (Doctoral dissertation, Poona: Deccan College; 799pp.)
Genetti, Carol E. 1994. Aspects of Nepali grammar. (Santa Barbara Papers in Linguistics, 6.) In Genetti, Carol E. (ed.) Santa Barbara: University of California. 1-40pp.
Karki, Tika B. 2005. Nepali-English dictionary: a compendium of contemporary written and spoken Nepali. Kathmandu, Nepal: Karki. xvi+402pp.
Major T. Warren. 1990. A shorter English-Nepali dictionary. New Delhi: Asian Educational Serives.
George A. Grierson. 1916. Indo-Aryan Family: Central Group: Specimens of the Pahārī Languages and Gujurī. (Linguistic Survey of India, IX(IV).) Calcutta: Office of the Superintendent of Government Printing. 1028pp.
Hari, Anna Maria. 1971. A vocabulary of the Nepali language. Kirtipur: Summer Institute of Linguistics and Institute of Nepal Studies, Tribhuvan University. 40pp.
Campbell, George. 1874. Specimens of the languages of India, including those of the aboriginal tribes of Bengal, the central provinces and the eastern frontier. Calcutta: Bengal Secretariat Press. 314pp.
Hari, Maria. 1973. Clause, sentence, and discourse patterns in selected languages of Nepal, part 3. In Austin Hale (ed.) In Austin Hale, ed. 3-52pp.
Hari, Anna Maria. 1971. Conversational Nepali. Kathmandu: Summer Institute of Linguistics and Institute of Nepal Studies, Tribhuvan University.
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