Social:Bote-Darai language

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Short description: Language of Nepal
Bote-Darai
Native toNepal
EthnicityDarai and Bote people
Native speakers
20,000 (2011 census)e25
Indo-European
Language codes
ISO 639-3Either:
bmj – Bote-Majhi
dry – Darai
Glottologbote1238  Bote[1]
dara1250  Darai[2]

Bote (Bote-Majhi) and Darai are mutually intelligible tribal dialects of Nepal that are close to Danwar Rai and Tharu languages but otherwise unclassified.[3] Its speakers are rapidly shifting to Nepali.[citation needed]

References

  1. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds (2017). "Bote". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History. http://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/bote1238. 
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds (2017). "Darai". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History. http://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/dara1250. 
  3. "Darai language". https://elibrary.tucl.edu.np/bitstream/123456789/7693/1/thesis.pdf.