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Nepali Language
Introduction:-
Nepali (Nepalese) is a member of the Indo-Aryan branch of the Indo-European language family. It is spoken by 11 million people in Nepal, 6 million people in India, and 156,000 in Bhutan. The total number of speakers of Nepali Nepalis over 17 million (Ethnologue). The language Nepal mapgoes by several names. The term Nepali (Nepalese) is generally used by English speakers. It is also called Gorkhali, 'the languages of the Gurkhas' or Parbatiya, 'the language of the mountains.' It was originally known as Khas-Kura, the language Nepalof the Khasa kingdom, which ruled over areas in the foothills of what is present-day Nepal in the 13th-14th centuries AD.

Nepali is believed to have developed from a variety of Prakrit spoken in India in the 8th-13th centuries AD which spread to what is now Nepal around the 10th century AD. Written Nepali is attested in documents dating back to the 13th century.