Nēpālī (नेपाली)

Nepali is an Indo-Aryan language with around 17 million speakers 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 Devanāgarī alphabet, which developed from the Brahmi script in the 11th century AD.

Devanāgarī alphabet for Nepali

Vowels and vowel diacritics

Consonants

Numerals

Hear how to pronounce Nepali

Sample text in Nepali

Transliteration

Sabai vyaktiharū janmajāt svatantra hun tī sabaikō samān adhikār ra mahatva cha. Nijaharūmā vicāraśakti ra sadvicār bhaēkōlē nijaharūlē āpastmā bhrātr̥tvakō bhāvanābāṭ vyavahār garanu parcha.

A recording of this text by Sarthak Sharma



Translation

All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.

(Article 1 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights)

Thanks to Arvind Iyengar for providing the above sample text.

Sample videos in Nepali

Information about Nepali | Phrases | Numbers | Tower of Babel

Links

Information about the Nepali language

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nepali_language

http://www.nepal-infos.com/learn-nepali-online

Online Nepali lessons

http://www.nepali.info/nepali/lessons/

http://nepalgo.tumblr.com/

http://polymath.org/nepali.php

Nepali phrases

https://youtu.be/5WjxwkMSXgA

http://the-voyagers.tripod.com/language.htm

http://wikitravel.org/en/Nepali_phrasebook

http://mylanguages.org/nepali_phrases.php

http://www.digitalhimalaya.com/projectteam/

turin/downloads/nepali_primer.pdf

Nepali fonts

http://www.nepali.info/nepali/fonts/

Devanagari script tutor

http://www.avashy.com/hindiscripttutor.htm

Online news in Nepali

http://www.aajabholi.com

http://www.arghakhanchi.com

http://abc.com.np

http://www.bbc.co.uk/nepali/

http://www.usnepalonline.com

Madan Puraskar Pustakalaya (MPP) - the principal archive of books and periodicals in Nepali: http://www.mpp.org.np

Indo-Aryan languages

Awadhi, Assamese, Bengali, Bhojpuri, Chakma, Chhattisgarhi, Dhivehi, Dhundari, Domari, Fiji Hindi, Garhwali, Gujarati, Hajong, Hindi, Kashmiri, Konkani, Kotia, Kutchi, Magahi, Maithili, Marathi, Marwari, Modi, Nepali, Odia, Palula, Parkari Koli, Punjabi, Rajasthani, Rohingya, Romani, Saraiki, Sarnámi Hindustani, Sindhi, Sinhala, Shina, Sourashtra, Sugali, Sylheti, Torwali, Urdu

Languages written with the Devanāgarī alphabet

Aka-Jeru, Awadhi, Bodo, Bhojpuri, Car, Chhattisgarhi, Dhundari, Dogri, Garhwali, Gondi, Gurung, Hindi, Jarawa, Kashmiri, Konkani, Kurukh, Limbu, Lhomi, Magahi, Magar, Maithili, Marathi, Marwari, Mundari, Newar, Nepali, Pali, Rajasthani, Sanskrit, Saraiki, Shina, Sindhi, Sunuwar, Sylheti, Yolmo

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