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This chapter is an introduction to the book and its contents. It briefly describes the methodology and tools used to collect data on various languages spoken in Kathmandu Valley and other parts of Nepal. It also describes mixed-method research that paid equal attention to quantitative and qualitative approaches to find out the trends, causes and impacts of language contact and shift among the diverse speakers from the valley and outside Nepal. Tools such as questionnaires, focus group discussions (FGDs), interviews and informal observations with language communities in several selected places were carried out by the author in different periods.
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The questionnaire was developed in 2014 by the author in DDL, University of Lyon 2, France and the pilot testing was done in 2015 in Kathmandu.
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Gautam, B.L. (2021). Introduction. In: Language Contact in Nepal. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-68810-3_1
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