nepal bhasa (language)

Nepal Bhasa (also known as Newari) is a language spoken by Newar community in the Kathmandu Valley, Nepal. It is one of the roughly five hundred Sino-Tibetan languages in the world, and belongs to the Tibeto-Burman branch of this family. It has the fourth-oldest literature of the Sino-Tibetan languages (the first, second and third being Chinese, Tibetan and Burmese respectively). Nepal Bhasa is the most Indicized of the Tibeto-Burman languages, and has had so many centuries of contact with Indo-European languages that it has even developed noun inflection, a trait typical of Indo-European but rare in Sino-Tibetan. This is an outstanding example of funamental traits of a langauge being passed on through language contact. It has absorbed other features of grammar as well, such as verb tenses.

External links

Michael Noonan, Recent Language Contact in the Nepal Himalaya.

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