Languages of Nepal
Languages, writing systems and language context
Nepal's Constitution recognizes all mother tongues spoken in Nepal as languages of the nation. Nepali written in Devanagari is the language of official business, while provinces may designate additional national languages for official business under provincial law.
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Nepali · 57 characters
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What languages are used in Nepal?
Nepal's Constitution recognizes all mother tongues spoken in Nepal as languages of the nation. Nepali written in Devanagari is the language of official business, while provinces may designate additional national languages for official business under provincial law.
What writing systems are used in Nepal?
The represented writing system is Devanagari and the primary direction shown is left to right.
Sources & methodology
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Primary constitutional source. Articles 6 and 7 distinguish languages of the nation, Nepali as the language of official business, and possible provincial official-business languages.
Localized country display-name reference. CLDR names are customary UI/display names, not claims about a state’s full constitutional long-form name.
Reference for the writing-system/script families represented in the character component.
Reference for left-to-right and right-to-left script direction and bidirectional text behavior.
Reference for Unicode character names used as small readout labels under selected character samples; these labels are not presented as a complete transliteration standard.