Nepali
- noun
- /nɛˈpɑːli/
:
nepalí
- We have already mentioned the observed positive impact of a mother's ability to speak Nepali on a daughter's risk of marriage.
- speak Nepali
- ability to speak Nepali
- mothers speak Nepali
Examples
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For example, looking at the impact of a mother's ability to speak Nepali in the first column, the results tell us that daughters whose mothers speak Nepali have annual odds of marrying that are 2.11 times greater than those whose mothers speak only Tamang.
Academic text (1993) -
For example, looking at the impact of a mother's ability to speak Nepali in the first column, the results tell us that daughters whose mothers speak Nepali have annual odds of marrying that are 2.11 times greater than those whose mothers speak only Tamang.
Academic text (1993) -
On it were two lines of Nepali with the amount he owed penned in a space.
Fiction book (1996) -
One such characteristic of mothers in Timling is their ability to speak Nepali.
Academic text (1993) -
The seller, Shambhu Pokharel, who carefully wrote his name in Nepali and English when we finally sat down, wanted out.
Fiction book (1996) -
In other words, a mother's ability to speak Nepali increases the risk of a daughter's marriage, while parents' cross-cousin marriage with formal exchanges reduces the risk of marriage.
Academic text (1993) -
The odds of marriage in an age interval for daughters whose mothers speak Nepali are therefore 111 percent greater than daughters in the same interval whose mothers speak only Tamang.
Academic text (1993) -
These are two dichotomous variables, one for the ability of the mother to speak Nepali (the national language of Nepal) in addition to Tamang, and the other for whether or not the mother received a djo.
Academic text (1993) -
I learned to greet people in Nepali during my trip to Nepal.
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Many children in Nepal are taught to read and write in Nepali at an early age.
Synonyms
The main language spoken in Nepal and parts of northern India
Compounds
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Nepali comes from the country name Nepal plus the ending -i, which means 'from' or 'of'. So Nepali is the name of the language 'from Nepal', just like Hindi or Bengali.
