Dolakha Newar (
endonym
An endonym (from Greek: , 'inner' + , 'name'; also known as autonym) is a common, ''native'' name for a geographical place, group of people, individual person, language or dialect, meaning that it is used inside that particular place, group, ...
Dwālkhā Nepal Bhasa
), or Eastern Newar, is a divergent dialect of the
Newar language
Newar (), or Newari and known officially in Nepal as Nepal Bhasa, is a Sino-Tibetan language spoken by the Newar people, the indigenous inhabitants of Nepal Mandala, which consists of the Kathmandu Valley and surrounding regions in Nepal. ...
(''Nepal Bhasa'') spoken in
Dolakha District, east of the
Kathmandu Valley
The Kathmandu Valley ( ne, काठमाडौं उपत्यका; also known as the Nepal Valley or Nepa Valley ( ne, नेपाः उपत्यका, Nepal Bhasa: 𑐣𑐾𑐥𑐵𑑅 𑐐𑐵𑑅, नेपाः गाः)), ...
of
Nepal, by 5,645
Newar people
Newar (; new, नेवार, endonym: Newa; new, नेवा, Pracalit script:) or Nepami, are the historical inhabitants of the Kathmandu Valley and its surrounding areas in Nepal and the creators of its historic heritage and civilisation ...
as of 1988. Some speakers of Dolakha Newar can be found in Kathmandu for education or work.
Geographical region
Dolakha Newar is spoken in Dolakha town of Dolakha district,
Tauthali
Tauthali ( ne, तौथली) is a village in Sindhupalchok District in Bagmati Province, central Nepal. Tauthali is 110 km away from Kathmandu.
census, the population was 2,762 (1,507 females and 1,255 males) in 776 households.
In the ...
of Sindupalchowk district, Listi and Duti of Kavre district.
Phonology
Consonants
; Notes
* Marginal phonemes are in parentheses.
* Allophonic variants are in Square brackets.
* Tap consonants mainly occur as word-medial alternates of //, //, // or // (in Dolakha only).
* // can be heard as [] when occurring before front vowels/glide //.
* Affricates // can also shift to retracted sounds [] when occurring before back vowels.
Vowels
* // and // can also be heard as [], and [].
* In Dolakha Newar, the
back vowel sound can be [], [], or [].
* The following nasal vowels can also be distinguished in vowel length as //.
Diphthongs
Number
References
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Newar language