People & society
How many languages are spoken in Nepal?
Nepal has 124 mother tongues recorded in the 2021 census, across five language families. Nepali, the official language, is the mother tongue of 44.86% and is spoken by roughly 91% as a first or second language. Maithili (11.05%) is second.
Languages range from Indo-Aryan and Sino-Tibetan giants to the Kusunda isolate, which has just one fluent speaker left.
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