Draft:Chitwania Tharu
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Comment: The content doesn't warrant a standalone article currently. Kindly discuss in the parent article's talk page if the article has to be split or not. Thanks. The Herald (Benison) (talk) 10:29, 4 February 2024 (UTC)
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Chitwania Tharu also known as Lalpuriya Tharu, Chitoniya Tharu, Chitwan Tharu, Madhya Ksetriya Tharu or Central Tharu is a Indo Aryan language spoken by the Tharu people in the Bagmati Province (Chitwan District), Gandaki Province (Nawalpur district), Lumbini Province (Nawalparasi West district) and in Madhesh Province (Parsa district, northern municipalities) of Nepal as well as in Kushinagar district in Uttar Pradesh state of India. It is actively used within the language community, spoken in the home, with friends, as well as used in religion, work, and education.[1] [2][3]
| Chitwania Tharu | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Nepal, India |
| Ethnicity | Tharu |
Native speakers | 290,000 in Nepal (2001 census)[4] |
| Dialects |
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| Devanagari | |
| Official status | |
Official language in | Tharuban of Nepal |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | the |
| Glottolog | chit1247 |
The language is employed by people of all ages with mixed attitudes ranging from neutral to negative. Additionally, Chitwania Tharu speakers also speak Bhojpuri, Hindi and Nepali. Linguistically, it follows an SOV word order, employs postpositions, and features noun head final structure.[5] It has two genders, allows up to three suffixes, and marks clause constituents through case-marking. The language has literature, newspapers, periodicals, and is used in various media such as radio and videos.[6]
References[edit]
- ^ "Chitwan Tharu". Ethnologue. Retrieved December 25, 2023.
- ^ Paudyal Krishna Prasad. 2014. A Grammar of Chitoniya Tharu. (LINCOM Grammar Handbooks, 2.) München: LINCOM. xxiii+514pp.
- ^ 1972 Centre for Nepal and Asian Studies (CNAS) & SIL International, Dorothy Leal. "Chitwan Tharu phonemic summary" (PDF). Language and Culture Archives.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ^ Chitwania Tharu at Ethnologue (26th ed., 2023)
- ^ Hale, Austin, Leal, William M (1973). Collected papers on Khaling, Kulunge, Darai, Newari, Chitwan Tharu (PDF). Kirtipur: Summer Institute of Linguistics and Institute for Nepal and Asian Studies.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ Arjun Guneratne (6 August 2018). Many Tongues, One People: The Making of Tharu Identity in Nepal. Cornell University Press. ISBN 978-1-5017-2530-2.
