In India, Nepali language has official status in the state of Sikkim and the Gorkhaland Territorial Region of West Bengal.
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17 Facts About Nepali language
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The language is called Parvate Kura, which literally means talks of the hills.
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The oldest discovered inscription in the Nepali language is believed to be the Dullu Inscription, believed to have been written around the reign of King Bhupal Damupal around the year 981.
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Changes of phonological patterns indicate that Nepali is related to other Northwest Indian languages, including Sindhi, Punjabi, and Lahnda.
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Archaeological and historical investigations show that modern Nepali descends from the language spoken by the ancient Khasha people.
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The 1670 Rani Pokhari inscription of King Pratap Malla, another early example of modern Nepali language, indicates the significant increment of Nepali language speakers in Kathmandu valley.
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The currently popular variant of Nepali language is believed to have originated around 500 years ago with the mass migration of a branch of Khas people from the Karnali-Bheri-Seti eastward to settle in lower valleys of the Karnali and the Gandaki basin that were well-suited to rice cultivation.
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Institutionalisation of the Nepali language is believed to have started with the Shah kings of Gorkha Kingdom, in the modern day Gorkha district of Nepal.
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Nepali language raised an army of khas people under the command of Bhagirath Panta.
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Ethnologist Brian Houghton Hodgson stated that the Khas or Parbattia Nepali language is an "Indian Prakrit" brought by colonies from south of the Nepalese hills, and the whole structure including the eighth-tenth portion of the vocabulary of it is "substantially Hindee" due to the influences and loanwords it shares with Arabic and Farsi.
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Nepali language is spoken indigenously over most of Nepal west of the Gandaki River, then progressively less further to the east.
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Nepali language developed a significant literature within a short period of a hundred years in the 19th century.
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Nepali language is traditionally spoken in the hilly regions of Nepal.
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The Nepali language is prominently used in governmental usages in Nepal and is the everyday Nepali language of the local population.
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Dialects of Nepali language include Acchami, Baitadeli, Bajhangi, Bajurali, Bheri, Dadeldhuri, Dailekhi, Darchulali, Darchuli, Gandakeli, Humli, Purbeli, and Soradi.
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The dialect of Nepali language spoken in Karnali Province is not mutually intelligible with Standard Nepali.
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The Nepali language is known with its old name as Khas Bhasa in Karnali.
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