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The Nepali language is spoken by around 20 million people in the Kingdom of Nepal, where it is the national and official language. About 11 million of these speakers use Nepali as a mother tongue. Outside of Nepal, Nepali is also spoken in north-east India and in much of Bhutan. On account of its widespread use in the states of West Bengal (particularly in the district of Darjeeling) and Sikkim, the Indian Constitution recognizes Nepali as a major language of India. While Dzongkha is the national language of Bhutan, Nepali is widely spoken by many of its citizens and used as a lingua franca across the country. In short, Nepali is a major regional language used in numerous South Asian countries. 

Nepali is an Indo-Aryan language, and thus part of a linguistic grouping which includes other South Asian languages such as Hindi, Bengali, Marathi and Gujarati. Modern Indo-Aryan languages are related to Sanskrit, much as modern European languages are related to Latin. Nepali is written in the Devanâgarî (or 'Nagari') script, which is also used for Hindi, Marathi and Sanskrit. Nepali Devanâgarî has 12 vowels and 36 consonants. The script is essentially phonetic, meaning that the pronunciation closely resembles the written form. The script is written from left to right, with a top line indicating the word boundaries. 

This volume is made up of two discrete glossaries, first Nepali-English and thereafter English-Nepali. While similar, the lexical corpora which make up the two glossaries are actually quite distinct. The Nepali-English Glossary closely follows the content of Shambhu and Banu Oja's Nepali Beginner's Primer, and the lesson number in which a word is first used is given in the penultimate column. This 51-page glossary is organised according to the Nepali alphabetic order. The English-Nepali Glossary does not map directly onto the content of the lessons in the primer, but rather provides an extensive corpus of terms which Cornell's Nepali language instructors have been asked to translate over the years. The content of this glossary reflects the interests of generations of Cornell students who have studied anthropology, ecology, economics, politics and sociology in Nepal and through Nepali. 

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