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Contents 1 A little help please 2 ... 3 Nepal Bhasa 4 Help add input for Wikipedia:Naming conventions (Indic) 5 translators needed at Wikipedia:WikiProject India/Translation 6 Number of native speakers is wrong 7 Mutual Intelligibility? 8 How can "roughly half of the population of Nepal speaks Nepali as a mother tongue...?" 9 Dialects

[edit] A little help please

can anyone translate this to Nepali? It's for a short story I'm working on.

"I got the bugger...I got him good!"

The idea is that the person saying this was angry at someone who insulted him, and proceeded to beat the crap out of that someone, and then uttered the above things for good measure.

Do help me out. I'd very much appreciate it. I'll delete this as soon as I get some feedback. Thanks

-joebeez

[edit] ...

This looks like a badly formatted dictionary. Wikipedia is not a dictionary. On the other hand, there are several other similiar lists for other languages. Remove it or fix it? -- JeLuF 13:47 Jul 24, 2002 (PDT)

To avoid possible copyright violation I remove the previous version as it contained unformated text of phrasebook (inserted by authors?). The original version can be found at [1] If you know that authors granted the right to use this text in Wikipedia feel free to revert the change. Here's a stub instead... Youandme

[edit] Nepal Bhasa

• Halló! Is this the same ? Best regards Gangleri | Th | T 16:20, 2 March 2006 (UTC)

Excellent question. They are different languages despite the potential confusion: Nepali vs. Nepal Bhasa.

Nepali is an indo-european language originally spoken in far western Nepal by Khas peoples who gradually migrated eastward and became militarily and political dominant, and Nepali became the national language although it is a second language for about half the population.

Nepal Bhasa, more commonly called Newari is the Tibeto-Burman language spoken by the Newar nationality that is indigenous to the Kathmandu Valley. "Nepal" originally meant just the Kathmandu valley with its three ancient cities (originally kingdoms) Kathmandu on the west, Patan on the south, and Bhaktapur on the east, to which one might add a smaller city or town Banepa further east on the rim of the valley.

Newars were farmers, craftsmen and merchants. As merchants they controlled trans-himalayan trade with Lhasa (the capital of Tibet) and have developed bazaars throughout the Middle Hills. However their language is not spoken by other ethnic groups or widely taught and is perhaps in some danger of disappearing.

can any one give the reference that shows the time period when the word "Nepal Bhasha" is mentioned? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Anju273 (talk • contribs) 20:11, 29 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Help add input for Wikipedia:Naming conventions (Indic)

Help add input for Wikipedia:Naming conventions (Indic)--Dangerous-Boy 04:46, 4 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] translators needed at Wikipedia:WikiProject India/Translation

Wikipedia:WikiProject India/Translation--D-Boy 19:30, 21 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Number of native speakers is wrong

What is the source for 40 million? Ethnologue estimates the total number of speakers at 17 million.. I sincerely doubt that Nepal (with a total population of about 11 million) and the speakers in Southern Bhutan could sum to 40 million. If no one objects I will change this soon. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.253.56.183 (talk) 16:05, 5 September 2007 (UTC)

Um, where did you get the number 11 million as the population of Nepal? As of several years ago it was about 25 million and Wikipedia has it at 28 million for 2007. I think if you count speakers in India (of Nepali descent, on the border, etc) you would have quite a few. So, if you don't think it's 40 million, that's one thing...but changing it to 17 million is illogical.

It should be more than 40 millions now. By the crude estimate (based on recent indian census) , population belonging to nepali origin is more than 20 millions. so any one who want to correct the figure, should make it to 45 million —Preceding unsigned comment added by Anju273 (talk • contribs) 20:14, 29 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Mutual Intelligibility?

Is Hindi really mutually intelligible with Nepali? It might more a case of Nepali people learning Hindi from Bollywood movies than the two language being mutually intelligible. Hindi is quickly learnable with minimum effort by a Nepali speaker, but if a Nepali and and an Indian with no previous contact with each others language or culture were to talk, they would not fully understand each other.

[edit] How can "roughly half of the population of Nepal speaks Nepali as a mother tongue...?"

According to population Statistics of Nepal 2006, following are major ethnic groups in Nepal:

Population by major Ten Caste/Ethnic groups (in percent), 2001. Chhetri 15.80 Brahman 12.74 Magar 7.14 Tharu 6.75 Tamang 5.64 Newar 5.48 Muslim 4.27 Kami 3.94 Yadav 3.94 Rai 2.79

How can this statement roughly half of the population of Nepal speaks Nepali language as mother tongue be true. It seems as if only around one third of Nepalese speak Nepali language as mother tongue according to Statistical figure of Central Bureau of statistics of Nepal. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Kathmandu2007 (talk • contribs) 22:15, 30 January 2008 (UTC)

Its likely the lower caste - ie not Bahun or Chetri - speakers of Nepali that make up the rest of those numbers, for example Dalits. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.66.192.217 (talk) 04:59, 31 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Dialects

Should characteristics of Nepali dialects be included in the article? More specifically, the singaporean Gurkha-Contingent dialect (i would consider it a seperate dialect because there is only a very strained mutual intelligibility with us and the nepal bred). —Preceding unsigned comment added by Wretchedapeman (talk • contribs) 22:17, 8 March 2008 (UTC)