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8 unusual facts about Nepali language


Amlekhganj

Amlekhganj (also Amlekhgunj) (Nepali:अमलेखगंज) is a town and Village Development Committee in Bara District in the Narayani Zone of south-eastern Nepal.

Birgunj

Birgunj (also Birganj) (Nepali: बिरगंज) is a sub-metropolitan municipality and border town in Parsa District in the Narayani Zone of southern Nepal.

In addition to Nepali, several other languages are spoken in the town including Bhojpuri, Hindi, Maithili, Nepal Bhasa, Marwari and English.

Dhading Besi

The word besi in the Nepali language means lowlands, the reason many people settled here.

Khumjung

Khumjung (Nepali: खुम्जुंग) is a village and Village Development Committee in Solukhumbu District in the Sagarmatha Zone of north-eastern Nepal.

Narayangarh, Chitwan

Narayangarh (also Narayangadh or Narayanghat) (Nepali: नारायणगढ or नारायणघाट) is a part of the city of Bharatpur in Chitwan District in the central part of Nepal, 146 km due west of Kathmandu, and 136 km from Pokhara, at the Narayani River where it leaves the Mahabharat Range.

Pipara Simara

Pipara Simara (also Pipra Simra or Simara or Simra) (Nepali: पिपरा सिमरा or सिमरा) is a town and Village Development Committee in Bara District in the Narayani Zone of south-eastern Nepal.

Pragatinagar

The area is surrounded by two khola's (Nepali: खोला) named Bahulaha Khola in the east and Lokaha Khola(River) in the west.


Baglamukhi temple

Baglamukhi Temple (Nepali: बगलामुखी मन्दिर) is one of the most important Hindu temples in Nepal, located at the center of Gulariya, city in mid-western development region.

Bharal

Its native names include bharal, barhal, bharar and bharut in Hindi, na or sna in Ladakh, nabo in Spitian, naur in Nepali and na or gnao in Bhutan.

Darpan Chaya

Darpan Chaya (Nepali: दर्पण छायाँ), a multi-award winning blockbuster, is a successful 2001 Nepali film directed by Tulsi Ghimire, starring Dilip Rayamajhi, Niruta Singh, Uttam Pradhan and Tulsi Ghimire.

Demographics of the United Arab Emirates

Other languages spoken in the UAE, due to immigration, include Urdu, Hindi, Persian, Pashto, Malayalam, Bengali, Punjabi, Tamil, Balochi, Russian, Somali language, Tagalog, Nepali and Mandarin Chinese.

Gaijatra

Gaijatra, the festival of cows, (gai means cow and jatra means festival in Nepali: गाईजात्रा, and Nepal Bhasa: सापारु) is celebrated in Nepal, mainly in Kathmandu valley by the Newar and Tharu community.

Garden of Dreams

The Garden of Dreams (Nepali:स्वप्न बगैंचा), also, the Garden of Six Seasons, is a neo-classical historical garden in Kathmandu, Nepal, built in 1920.

Gender neutrality in genderless languages

In Maithili, Bengali, Assamese, Oriya and Nepali, there are different nouns for professions, but they are not commonly used, so these languages have become gender-neutral.

Khoa

Khoa (Punjabi: ਖੋਆ, Nepali:खुवा, also khoo-wah) is a dairy product widely used in Nepal, Indian and Pakistani cuisine, made of either dried whole milk or milk thickened by heating in an open iron pan.

Kusunda people

The Nepali word Kusunda originally meant "savage", as the neighboring Chepang and other groups traditionally thought of them as savages.

Nepathya

Nepathya (Nepali:नेपथ्य also spelled - Nepathaya) is a popular Nepalese music band that was formed by three students from Pokhara, studying in Kathmandu, Nepal in the early 1990s.

Sangini

Sangini (Nepali: संगिनी) is a particular type of song and dance perform by the Nepali womenfolk during the occasion of a religious festival Tihar and Teej.


see also

Devkota

Laxmi Prasad Devkota Devkota is considered the greatest poet of Nepali language—he has been given the title of "Maha Kavi" ("The Great Poet") of Nepali language.