| Language name: | NEWARI |
| UPSID number: | 2518 |
| Alternate name(s): | |
| Classification: | Sino-Tibetan, Himalayic |
| This language has | 32 segments |
| Its Frequency index is | 0.261086475 (average percentage of segments; 0.1: many very rare segments; 0.39: average; 0.7: many common segments) |
| The language has these sounds: | p "t k ph "th kh b "d g bh "dh gh "ts "tsh "dz "dzh "s m "n mh "nh hh "l "lh i a+ "o( u i~ a+~ "o(~ u~ |
| Comment: | Kathmandu dialect. Newari is spoken in the Kathmandu valley of Nepal. The reduced vowel inventory proposed by Hale and Hale (1969) has been accepted. Surface vowels of other qualities result from coalescence in vowel sequences. /i, u/ are desyllabified before low vowels, and merge elsewhere. |
| Source(s): | Hale, A. and Hale, M. 1969. Newari Phonemic Summary. Tibeto-Burman Phonemic Summaries V. SIL, Tribhuvan University, Kirtipur. Manandhar, T.L. 1986. Newari-English Dictionary: Modern language of Kathmandu valley. (Anne Vergati, editor) Agam Kala Prakashan, Delhi. |