A Course in Nepali by DAVID MATTHEWS Leconte Urdu and Nepali School of Orienal and Atfican Sues SCHOOL OF ORIENTAL AND AFRICAN STUDIES NNER. Gh ONDOCONTENTS, ‘ronan and sip. “he detangatelsbery Other iems of eanlteraion Nepal handwriting Leno Leson 3 Leson 5 eswon 7 Leon Lasso Leon 10: eson 1: ra forms plural nd negative vers; questions rnin oy ke: the pospaion bps expe Sons syd Personal pronouns; he ve b's enn ors {Supt chet he pres posi moe posigostons: the obtgu ase; expressions a "nc; numeral sis, to tae’ ruc. ‘er bases Spl dette; epetormy Pr. Ht Contin egatve vets the dec objet eas ata neha. Foctions: more expresons of tie te -ci he, Ka; compound pospontons, at; rh ars ft ‘Seronry Veta Buse Simple Past eye: Mage; dag ote week ‘Stem verb, open codons, xpresons of rie, ‘elgt and meare eer forme tthe lipertne CConincve Parsi; reported specs Ign parm expression af se scsi" hae" pg; the Second ni nietves, eka, bo posses pstpost 3 2 a * fa “ o 10aeso 1S: Lesion 16 Lesson 38 eso 19 son 20: int Peet Parle; mote uses of the Sesond Tate; skein int Pefct Tenn First eset Parle witht nd tan it Ploeret Tens; mote tes of te Tin Pare; Mae tbe Nepali calendar. Total Parle eon) flava Patre; Tid ‘Sond Pose Paps condsionalandconessne ‘Shoes; promos odjcvr and adver Secoed Perfo Tene Second Pupotet Tene. “he Injncve; Fare Tense: bol. Fat Hainal, imposible. codes; cxusatie Tnperect Prtiple; continous tenes; terry forme of vet ‘Nolte Pari; requnttive and omiuous ‘amy ompnnd ser royal Bone Apgendic The Nepal sues ‘Appeals Geographical terms. ‘Append 3 Nepal laos ems eyo Ererees Nepalsngish Vocabuly. a M9 160 0 1 mm 231 as co PREFACE Nepali the offi langnge ofthe Kingdom of Nepal, wiely pen ‘hroupoct the Easter Hinalys, Bere nton one ofthe jor ‘ehicls of communion. Nepal ar lo been adopt by peoples he inulayan sion wo belong te dterent ngs goupe he om ser sae pout th we f Np Daeg ean We ena ‘Sis, Bhat and pre o Tibet, where ha atone ange of trae and commer for wll ove tno cents. a Tie mos athe languages fhe norte abot, Nepal eong to te Indo-Aryan amity, Being lly dtned fo Su, the se language of nda. The Indo-Aryan guages ae hatoccalrlted 0 man) thelangigesof top, nding Engi, hoa at i ihe eon ‘Ship iay spear tobe embe Lingusialy, Nepal ismest ol) rested ‘Hina which aes aarp proporon of seca Yee and Scrip which ils rom hat of Hin nol a ew mir ete Theo Linguages ar infact lose oath ther (lala Spanish would ea fit Europes parle) thateaty Westen prammaransrerarded Nepales let of Hind Te wo langage are, however, by 0 means mal ‘omprehcusble an ae now considered be completely din om each ‘Although there is enough evidence sow that Nepal as ben spe ie the Batra Hina for several entre, eatin the ase of he fer, was not ween unt he begining of the nineteenth ety when ‘sel Sait was rally abandoed i lator othe ermal On of {ne eats and moat revered Nepal wos the amayay ofthe Bran poet Dhaobbakta Achy, who completed is ongep rein the exe {Rama in 1885. The caus othe Raga ep n1949 led ton sent ‘psig in Nepal wen, dine thine may novel sor stare, ays nd petal works rave ben publied rom the wo tur ene of Kath ‘un and Dajcing. ‘hen tearing Nepal «number of pect afl atecooustered which do wot hte te fied wher beponing the more reer sued European eagegen, Re stypia eee eetscretest ote neues