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Nepali language

LC control no.sh 85090833
LC classificationPK2595 PK2599
Topical headingNepali language
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Variant(s)Gorkhali language
Gurkhali language
Khas language
Khaskura language
Lhotshammikha language
Naipali language
Nepalese language
Parbate language
Parbatiya language
Purbutti language
See alsoPahari languages
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Found inWikipedia, July 19, 2010 (Nepali language. Nepali or Nepalese is a language in the Indo-Aryan branch of the Indo-European language family. Historically, the language was first called Khaskura (language of the khas 'rice farmers'), then Gorkhali or Gurkhali (language of the Gurkha) before the term Nepali was taken from Newari. Other names include Parbatiya ("mountain language", identified with the Parbatiya people of Nepal) and Lhotshammikha (the "southern language" of the Lhotshampa people of Bhutan).)