Languages of Nepal

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Nepal is a multilinguistic nation. Languages belonging to Indo-Aryan, Sino-Tibetan, Austr-Asian and Dravidian families are found in Nepal. The main languages of Nepal are as follows-

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Languages of South Asia

Main articles
Languages of India (list by number of speakers - scheduled)  · Languages of Pakistan · Languages of Bangladesh  · Languages of Nepal · Languages of Sri Lanka

Historic languages
Linguistic history of India · Vedic Sanskrit · Classical Sanskrit · Prakrit · Pāli · Classical Tamil  · Middle Indic

Contemporary languages
Indo-Aryan: Sinhala · Hindi · Urdu · Bengali · Gujarati · Maithili · Marathi · Oriya · Punjabi · Assamese · Sindhi · Dogri · Nepali · Hindko · Konkani · Kashmiri · Dravidian: Telugu · Tulu · Tamil · Kannada · Malayalam · Brahui · Iranian: Persian · Balochi · Pashto · Tajik · Tibeto-Burman: Nepal Bhasa · Tibetan · Meitei · Bodo · Sikkimese · Mizo · Kokborok · Ao · Tenyidie · Garo · Munda: Santali · Mundari · Ho · Korku · Sora · Mon-Khmer: Nicobarese · Khasi  · Austronesian: Sri Lanka Malay · Isolates: Kalto · Burushaski · Andamanese · Kusunda · of European influence: French · English · Portuguese

Scripts
Indus · Brahmi · Brahmic family: Devanagari · Sinhala · Telugu · Tamil · Gurmukhi · Bengali · Ranjana · Oriya · Malayalam · Kannada · Gujarati · Arabic: Nasta'liq · Shahmukhi

Language activism
Hela Havula · Bengali Language Movement · Sanskrit revival · Language movement · Pure Tamil movement · Nepal Bhasa movement · Anti-Hindi agitations · Urdu movement
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