Resources

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COURSES, BOOKS, JOURNALS AND PDFS

Useful resources in the web.

• Aspects of Nepali Grammar – Genetti (1994)
• Colloquial Nepali – Rogers (1950)
• Coco’s Nepal
• Live Lingua – Nepali
• Nepalese Linguistics – Linguistic Society of Nepal (2008)
• Nepalgo
• Nepali: A Beginner’s Primer – Oja & Oja (2004)
• Peace Corps: Basic Course in Spoken Nepali
• Structure of Nepali Grammar – Bal (2004)
• University of Wisconsin-Madison – Nepali Course

BIBLIOGRAPHY AND REFERENCES

Here are some bibliography and references containing more content and resources about Nepali language, including further lists and articles.

• Britannica: Nepali Language
• Colorado School of Mines – Arthur Lakes Library – Nepali Language
• Omniglot Nepali
• University of Cambridge – Nepali Publications
• University of Wisconsin-Madison – Nepali Language Resources
• Wikipedia: Nepali Grammar
• Wikipedia: Nepali Language

DICTIONARIES AND WORDLISTS

Need to find a word? These may be of help.

• A Comparative and Etymological Dictionary of the Nepali Language – Turner | 🇬🇧
• A Practical Dictionary of Modern Nepali – Schmidt | 🇬🇧
• Lexilogos | 🇬🇧
• Nepali Brihat Shabdakosh | 🇳🇵
• Nepali-English Glossary | 🇬🇧
• Wortliste Nepali-Deutsch | 🇩🇪

EBOOKS AND LITERATURE

Literature, collection of eBooks and more.

• CDC Textbooks | Nepali textbooks by the Ministry of Education
• Digital Himalaya – University of Cambridge | contains tons of resources including rare books
• Pustakalaya.org | a library website containing a lot of eBooks in Nepali
• Sahitya Sangraha | website containing numerous literary works

FLASHCARDS

Here is a list of some cool flashcards. Many thanks to the creators!

• Word of The Day | August 2013 | Ingeteacher
• Word of The Day | September 2013 | Ingeteacher
• Word of The Day | October 2013 | Ingeteacher
• Word of The Day | November 2013 | Ingeteacher
• Word of The Day | December 2013 | Ingeteacher
• LearningNepali | learningnepali

FONTS

Beautiful, practical and contemporary Devanagari fonts.

• Nepali Fonts
• Google Fonts | Noto Sans Devanagari

NEWS

Want to read some news? 

• Annapurna Post | 🇳🇵
• BBC (Nepali) | 🇳🇵
• Gorkhapatra | 🇳🇵
• Hamro Patro | 🇳🇵
• Kantipur | 🇳🇵
• Nagarik | 🇳🇵
• Online Khabar | 🇳🇵
• Ratopati | 🇳🇵

• The Himalayan Times | 🇬🇧
• The Kathmandu Post | 🇬🇧
• myRepublica | 🇬🇧
• Nepali Times | 🇬🇧

ONLINE TYPE

Do you want to type in Nepali? These online typing services can help you.

• Ashesh Nepali Unicode 
• Google Transliterate 

ONLINE TRANSLATION

Use these online tools to translate to or from Nepali.

• Bing Translate
• Google Translate

PHRASEBOOK

Use these phrasebooks for some quick street Nepali.

• Wikitravel Phrasebook
• Wikivoyage Phrasebook

TRANSLITERATION

Easily transliterate Devanagari into IAST. Note that IAST will inadvertently append schwas, so be sure to manually remove them!

• Sanscript

TUTORING

Are you looking for tutors? You can find them here!

• Italki Nepali | Dikshant Rajbhandari

VIDEOS

Want to see few videos on the Nepali language? Click these links.

• Alphabets and their Sounds
• Basic Phrases
• Introductions
• Learn Nepali Language | YouTube channel
• Learn Nepali with Barsha | YouTube channel
• Nepalgo YouTube | YouTube channel
• Nepali Alphabets
• TimroNepali | YouTube channel
• WIKITONGUES: Atul speaking Nepali

OTHERS

Miscellaneous resources.    

• Ashesh Calendar | a website featuring the Nepali calendar (with the festivities) in both Bikram Sambat and the Gregorian calendar