Doteli

Doteli
Dotyali
डोटेली
Native to	Nepal
Region	Doti (Far Western Region) and Mid western Region
Native speakers	790,000 in Nepal (2011 census)^[1]
Language family	Indo-European Indo-Iranian Indo-Aryan Northern (Eastern Pahari) Nepali Doteli
Writing system	Devanagari script (Nepali alphabet)
Official status
Official language in	Nepal As per Part 1, Section 5 of Interim Constitution of Nepal 2063 (2007):^[2]
Language codes
ISO 639-3	`dty`
Glottolog	`dote1238`^[3]

Doteli, or Dotyali (डोटेली) is an Indo-Aryan language spoken by about 800,000 people, most of whom live in Nepal. It was traditionally considered the western dialect of Nepali, and is written in the Devanagari script. It has official status in Nepal As per Part 1, Section 5 of Interim Constitution of Nepal 2063 (2007).

References

↑ Doteli at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
↑ Interim Constitution of Nepal 2063
↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Doteli". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.

External links

Doteli language test of Wikipedia at Wikimedia Incubator

Languages of Nepal

Official languages	Nepali

Regional languages	Awadhi Bajjika Bhojpuri Doteli Kiranti Kumaoni Magar Maithili Newar Sherpa Sunwar Tamang Tharu

Sign languages	Nepali Sign Language Ghandruk Sign Language Jhankot Sign Language Jumla Sign Language

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