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KMC celebrates its Establishment Day (In pictures)

KATHMANDU, Dec 15: The Kathmandu Metropolitan City (KMC) is celebrating its 29th Metropolitan Day today. The city of Kathmandu was declared a metropolitan city, upgraded from the then ‘Safai Adda’, on December 15, 1995. In commemoration of the same day, KMC has been celebrating its Establishment Day. ....

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Nepal Struggles to Preserve Its Indigenous Languages as Those Speaking Them Dwindle


Child reading Newa folk story, Dhaplaan Khyaa, by Durgalal Shrestha. Credit: ASHISH SHAKYA
KATMANDU, Feb 3 2021 (IPS) - At last count Nepal had 129 spoken languages, but even as new ones are identified, others are becoming extinct. At least 24 of the languages and dialects spoken in Nepal are ‘endangered’, and the next ones on the verge of disappearing are Dura, Kusunda, and Tillung, each of which have only one speaker left.
“It will not surprise me if these three languages will be the next to go. With no one left to speak, we will not be able to save them,” says Lok Bahadur Lopchan of the Language Commission of Nepal, which is entrusted with preserving Nepal’s linguistic diversity. ....

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