An excerpt of a conversation between an anthropologist and linguist Mark Turin, PhD and Lava Deo Awasthi, PhD, the first Chairperson of the Language Commission of Nepal. Nepali Times: What is the role ...

Prime Minister Sushila Karki has said that all languages spoken in Nepal are national assets and that none should be allowed to become extinct. Receiving study reports submitted by the Language ...

Third grade students take turns reading lessons aloud to their classmates at Mangal Prasad Secondary School in Banke, Nepal. Credit: Amrita Jaisi for Global Press Journal Nepal. The Hechinger Report ...

Korean Ambassador to Nepal, Tae-young Park, attended the event and encouraged key stakeholders, including Hangeul School and the King Sejong Institute, to further expand Korean language education in ...

Poet, journalist, and documentary maker Moharaj Sharma is a leading figure in Nepal’s literary and media landscape, with two decades of influential work in radio and television. Widely respected for ...

This article by Alisha Sijapati was originally published in Nepali Times and an edited version is republished on Global Voices as part of a content-sharing agreement. At last count, in 2019, Nepal had ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork)-- A new map details hundreds of languages spoken across the Big Apple, but many of them are on the verge of dying out. A building in Brooklyn is home to one of them. Fulmaya ...

The Confucius Institute at Nepal's Tribhuvan University (TU) hosted a celebration on Sunday for the 2026 International Chinese Language Day. The event featured displays of traditional Chinese culture, ...

A character in Buddhisagar’s bestselling 2010 novel कर्नाली ब्लुज (Karnali Blues) has the habit of adding “हजुरको” (‘hajurko’) at the end of his sentences whenever he speaks. Eventually he runs a ...