Nepal has many ethnic groups and language. The official Language is Nepali. It has more than a hundred languages spoken. It is classified as an Indo-Aryan Language and is spoken as a mother tongue by approximately half of Nepal's population and as a second language by others. Other names for Nepali include Gorkhali/Gurkhali (“language of the Gurkhas”) as well as Parbatiya (“language of the mountains”). Nepali was originally known as Khaskura (“speech of the Khas”) an was spoken by rice farming Khas who settled in the Karnali Bheri basin. Today it is spoken throughout Nepal as well as in parts of Bhutan and India.
Maithili is one of the Indo-Aryan languages. Many view it as a dialect of Hindi and not a separate language. Limbu, a Tibeto-Burman language, spoken by the Limbu ethnic group. Limbu, call themselves yakthung and the Limbu language Yakthung Pan. Most Limbus can also speak Nepali fluently.
Its major languages (2001 census) is: Nepali 40%, Maithili 9%, Newari (3%), Tamang (5%), Tharu (5%), Magar (3%), Bantawa (1.4%), Gurung (1.3%), Limbu (1.2%) and the remaining languages are each spoken as mother tongue by less than one percent of the population.
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