Nepalese English

{{Short description|West Germanic language of Nepali dialect spoken by Nepali people}}

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{{Infobox language

| name = Nepalese English

| familycolor = Indo-European

| altname = Nepali English

| nativename =

| states = Nepali

| region = South Asia

| speakers =

| fam1 =

| fam2 = Germanic

| fam3 = West Germanic

| fam4 = Ingvaeonic

| fam5 = Anglo-Frisian

| fam6 = Anglic

| fam7 = English

| fam8 = Asian English

| fam9 = South Asian English

| ancestor = Proto-Indo-European

| ancestor2 = Proto-Germanic

| ancestor3 = Proto-English

| ancestor4 = Old English

| ancestor5 = Middle English

| ancestor6 = Early Modern English

| ancestor7 = Modern English

| script = Latin

| nation =

| iso1 =

| isoexception = dialect

| ietf = en-NP

}}

Nepalese English refers to a variety of the English language principally used in Nepal as well as neighboring Sikkim and Gorkhaland regions of India. It is heavily influenced by the Indo-Aryan languages of Nepal.

Many Nepalese speak English as a second or foreign language, with English use being most prevalent among city dwellers residing in Kathmandu (the capital of Nepal). Although Nepali is the native language, English is the primary language used for business in Nepal. In Nepal, where modern English education began in the 1850s, there is little or no consensus among teachers and practitioners on whether to follow British, American or Indian variants of English, or allow the development of a Nepal-specific variety of English.{{cite journal|url= http://www.nepjol.info/index.php/NELTA/article/viewFile/4608/3820|title=Nenglish: An Inevitable Reality or Merely a Mirage|journal=Journal of NELTA|author=Eak Prasad Duwadi|volume=15 |number=1–2 |date=December 2010|pages=43–53}}

Colloquially, code-mixed Nepali and English is known as Nenglish (a term first recorded in 1999), or, less commonly, as Nepanglish (2000) or Neplish (2002).{{Cite journal |last=Lambert |first=James |date=2017 |title=A Multitude of 'Lishes': The Nomenclature of Hybridity |url=https://benjamins.com/catalog/eww.38.3.04lam |journal=English World-Wide |volume=38 |issue=3 |doi=10.1075/eww.38.3.04lam |doi-broken-date=2 November 2024 |issn=0172-8865 }}

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