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Language Contact in Nepal

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This chapter outlines the language contact situation in Nepal: the relations and the causes of language contact in the Nepalese context. It briefly introduces language politics in Nepal, connecting with changing democratic practices in different periods of history. While discussing various sociohistorical contexts of language contact and its relation to language attitude, ideology and change, important works on language contact studies in Nepal are reviewed for reference and further study. Most previous works are related to, drawn from and rely on pure linguistics data and are limited to specific languages and language families. In this context, this book will introduce a new concept in language contact study in a very complex multilingual country—Nepal.

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    A group of people in the Hindu religion who wear Janai (Holy thread).

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Gautam, B.L. (2021). Language Contact in Nepal. In: Language Contact in Nepal. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-68810-3_3

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