Nepali in India

Speakers

2,926,168

Type

Location

Nepali in India

Country

Information available

1. Basics

Names

Nepali in India

Size

2,926,168

2. Status

Status

  • Official country wide language
  • Official regional language
  • Official minority language
  • Recognised community language
  • Unrecognised community language
National language
Yes
Indigenous language
No
Administrative units of the country
Sikkim, West Bengal, Uttrakhand, Assam

3. State

Documentation: materials

Written

  • Extended corpora
  • Annotated corpora
  • Corpus/corpora
  • Materials/corpus
  • Some materials
  • No materials
Digital
Yes
Comments
http://data.ldcil.org/a-gold-standard-nepali-raw-text-corpus
http://data.ldcil.org/nepali-raw-speech-corpus
Samalochana Rudra Baral, Krishna Neel Karki, Dhakaram Kafle. 2023. Asameli Nepali Purbayon Publication. 978-81-19001-26-2
https://archive.org/details/nepali-brihat-sabdkosh
https://archive.org/details/hartalika-vrat-katha-nepali_202204

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Video

  • Extended corpora
  • Annotated corpora
  • Corpus/corpora
  • Materials/corpus
  • Some materials
  • No materials
Digital
Yes
Comments
There are movies, learning-teaching materials, dances, talks, lectures, etc.
https://archive.org/search?query=nepali&page=4&and%5B%5D=mediatype%3A%22movies%22
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kgX_MkUmnk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8guc7aixfOE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHoF8Kq4SXU

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Audio

  • Extended corpora
  • Annotated corpora
  • Corpus/corpora
  • Materials/corpus
  • Some materials
  • No materials
Digital
Yes
Comments
There are movie songs, talks, recordings, etc.
https://liveradios.in/language/nepali
https://onlineradiofm.in/language/nepali
https://www.hamropatro.com/radio
https://gaana.com/newrelease/nepali

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Documentation: descriptions

  • Elaborated dictionaries, grammars, statistical language models, etc.
  • Dictionaries and grammars
  • Dictionary and grammar
  • Glossary and descriptions
  • Few descriptions
  • No descriptions
Digital
Yes
Comments
There are many works on nepali but few are listed below:
1. Acharya, Jayaraj. 1990. A descriptive grammar of Nepali and an analyzed corpus. (Doctoral dissertation, Georgetown University; 396pp.)
2. Turnbull, Archibald. 1992. Nepali grammar & vocabulary. 3 ed. edn. New Delhi: Asian Educational Services. vi+185pp. (English and Nepali Includes index).
3. David Matthews. 1984. A course in Nepali. London: SOAS. 354pp.
Sthapit, Shishir Kumar. 1978. English, Nepali and Newari: A comparison and its pedagogic applications. (Doctoral dissertation, Poona: Deccan College; 799pp.)
4. Acharya, Jayaraj. 1990. A descriptive grammar of Nepali and an analyzed corpus. (Doctoral dissertation, Georgetown University; 396pp.)
5. Turnbull, A. 1982. Nepali Grammar and Vocabulary. New Delhi: Asian Educational Services.

More resources are given in this link: https://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/nepa1254

Standardization

  • Modern standard language
  • Young standard language
  • Standardised language
  • Quasi-standard language
  • Semi-standardised language
  • Un-standardised language

Graphisation & script encoding

  • Standardised writing system with full script encoding
  • Conventionalised writing system with partial script encoding
  • Consistent writing system with no script encoding
  • Unsystematic writing system(s)
  • Limited written use
  • No written use
Comments
Nepali uses Devanagiri script.

4. Users

Geographical distribution

  • Users live and dominate in all regions of the country
  • Users live in one [state/...] of the country
  • Users live in a cross-border region [state/...] of the country
  • Users live in separated [states/...] of the country
  • Users live dispersed across one [state/...] of the country
  • Users live scattered all over the country

Settlements

  • Rural
  • Urban
Comments
https://www.langlex.com/cens/MTProfile.php?mtname=Nepali

Size / Number of users

Number of users

2926168
Source
Census of India
Year
2011

Users within total population

100 % use the language
Source
Census of India
Year
2011

Users within the reference community

Age distribution of users

Generational use

All generations

Educational attainment

Occupational qualifications

Language competence

Understand all, speak/sign fluently

Literacy of users

Digital use

5. Use

Socio-geographic dimension

Geographic scope
  • International
  • Supranational
  • Cross-border (states)
  • State-wide
  • Supra-regional cross-border
  • Supra-regional
  • Regional cross-border
  • Regional
  • Local
Source
https://www.langlex.com/cens/MTProfile.php?mtname=Nepali

Economic dimension

Functional dimension

Functional scope
  • Public domains
  • Everyday domains
  • Private domains
Nature
complementary
Stability
Increasing
Functional scope
  • Public domains
  • Everyday domains
  • Private domains
Nature
complementary
Stability
Increasing
Functional scope
  • Public domains
  • Everyday domains
  • Private domains
Nature
complementary
Stability
Increasing

Functional use in administration

Language use in administration
  • International level
  • National level
  • Regional level
  • Local level
  • Auxiliary use
  • No use

Types of language use

  • signed / spoken use
  • written use
  • digital use
Comments
State

Ethnoculture

  • No use
  • Informal learning
  • Skills and knowledge
  • Performing arts
  • Social practices
  • Customary law
  • Traditional medicine
  • Knowledge and practices
  • Traditions and expressions

Formal Education

Early childhood education
Primary level
Lower secondary level
Higher secondary level
Tertiary level

Public healthcare

  • Language not used
  • Translations
  • Healthcare information
  • Nursing care (incl. elderly)
  • Doctor-patient communication
  • Generally used

Information, communication and cultural production

  • Information services
  • Broadcasting
  • Video, film
  • Sound/music recording
  • Publishing activities
  • Language not used
  • Information services
  • Broadcasting
  • Video, film
  • Sound/music recording
  • Publishing activities
  • Language not used
  • Information services
  • Broadcasting
  • Video, film
  • Sound/music recording
  • Publishing activities
  • Language not used
  • Information services
  • Broadcasting
  • Video, film
  • Sound/music recording
  • Publishing activities
  • Language not used
  • Information services
  • Broadcasting
  • Video, film
  • Sound/music recording
  • Publishing activities
  • Language not used

Legal system

Language use in the legal system
  • General use
  • Legal transactions
  • Court proceedings
  • Written submissions
  • Spoken/signed testimonies
  • Language not used

Areas of law the language is used

  • Criminal law
  • Civil law
  • Administrative law

Geographical scope of legal language use

  • Local
  • Regional
  • National
  • International

Completion