Danuwar (also rendered ''Danwar'', ''Denwar'', ''Dhanvar'', ''Dhanwar'') is a language spoken in parts of

Nepal Nepal, officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal, is a landlocked country in South Asia. It is mainly situated in the Himalayas, but also includes parts of the Indo-Gangetic Plain. It borders the Tibet Autonomous Region of China Ch ...

by Danuwar ethnic group. It is close to Bote-Darai and

Tharu languages The Tharu ( Tharu: थारु, ) or Tharuhat () languages are any of the Indo-Aryan languages spoken by the Tharu people of the Terai region in Nepal, and neighboring regions of Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh and Bihar in India. Tharu languages a ...

but otherwise unclassified within the

Indo-Aryan languages The Indo-Aryan languages, or sometimes Indic languages, are a branch of the Indo-Iranian languages in the Indo-European languages, Indo-European language family. As of 2024, there are more than 1.5 billion speakers, primarily concentrated east ...

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Languages of Nepal Indo-Aryan languages Languages written in Devanagari {{IndoAryan-lang-stub