Sociolinguistic survey of Nepalese languages

Gautam, Bhim Lal

doi:10.1075/le.19004.gau

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“…We speak more Chhantyal when we go to Myagdi. We love to speak our own language but for business and communication Nepali is important".This indicates the multiple use of language among Chhantyal people as social practitioners who negotiate their understanding and production of communicative tasks by utilizing their linguistic and cultural resources (Gautam, 2019). Speaking more Chhantyal in Myagdi and more Nepali in Kathmandu shows their different language practices for different contexts.…”

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Bi/Multilingualism and Language Shift in Chhantyal

Gautam,

Adhikari

2023

Nep. Linguistics

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This paper outlines various aspects of bi/multilingualism and language shift in Chhantyal, a minority language community in Nepal. The main objective is to find the domains of language use and the causes of language shift among the migrated Chhantyal in Kathmandu valley. This research is based on mixed methodology of socio-ethnographic survey data where the data were collected with the help of survey questionnaire, key informants interviews (KIIs) and informal discussions and narratives with Chhantyal people based on Gautam (2021).The findings indicate that there is continuous shifts towards Nepali, English and Hindi languages among the speakers influenced by market multilingualism, globalization, migration, travel and tourism.

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Section: Formal Domainsmentioning

confidence: 97%

Bi/Multilingualism and Language Shift in Chhantyal

Gautam,

Adhikari

2023

Nep. Linguistics

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“…As mentioned earlier, most of the causes of language shift among Gopali speakers are rooted in various socio-historical reasons (Gautam 2012(Gautam , 2019(Gautam , 2022b. The elder generations in the Gopali community blame earlier language changes on the incumbent government policy during the Panchayat Era .…”

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Trajectories of language and the culture of the Gopali community in the Chitlang Valley

Gautam,

Giri

2024

10.14746/gl

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Language pedagogy primarily casts light on cultural trajectories of language use in certain communities. By examining these of the Gopali community in the Chitlang Valley, located 28 miles southwest of Kathmandu, this preliminary study delves into various applied aspects of language use in the area. Preliminary observations indicate that the Gopali, a subset of the Newar ethnic group, have a distinctive linguistic and cultural identity in Nepal. However, they have yet to be recognized as a separate ethnic community despite their unique language, marital exchange, origin stories, and cultural practices. Currently subsumed under the Newar subset, the Gopali language is on the brink of extinction primarily because of an increasing level of influence exerted by Nepali, Tamang and Kathmandu-based Newar accents on Gopali speakers. As the misrecognition of language and culture was historically linked with the political-economic access of the community, we observed the impact of the political economy on the Gopali of Chitlang. This paper has been developed on the basis of data elicited from various narratives, key informant interviews (KII), life histories, language surveys, and observations conducted in October, 2021. Thus, the interpretation has been made in relation to various political, social and economic relations of language use and cultural changes. In consideration of multilingualism as a norm of language education, this study has also explored the impact of multilingualism among the younger generation in the Chitlang Valley. The study can help policymakers introduce mother tongue-based multilingual education (MTB-MLE) to children in the Gopali community.

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“…Language shift is the process by which a speech community in a contact situation (i.e., consisting of bi/multilingual speakers) gradually stops using one of its two languages in favor of the other (Fishman 1991). The causal factors of language shift are generally considered to be social, cultural and geographical (Gautam 2019). In the Maithili speaking community living in the Valley, different patterns of language use were observed.…”

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Multilingualism and Language Contact in Maithili: Trends, Traits and Impact in Sociolinguistic Spaces

Gautam

Poudel

2022

Gipan

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This paper presents various trends, traits and impact of language contact in Maithili language spoken in the Kathmandu valley. The data were gathered through survey and key informant interviews with Maithili speakers and focused-language contact observations in the communities in various parts of the Kathmandu valley. Drawing on such data, this paper reports the expanding instances of language contact among the speakers of Maithili. It also illustrates causes and impacts of language contact in the rapidly emerging multilingual sociolinguistic spaces, especially in the Kathmandu valley. The findings showed that the Maithili native speakers living in Kathmandu had higher instances of language contact with Nepali and English, especially in the formal situations. Such practices were influenced and shaped by their ideological orientations towards globalization and willingness to attend to the emerging diverse contexts caused by the growing migration.

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Sociolinguistic survey of Nepalese languages

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Bi/Multilingualism and Language Shift in Chhantyal

Bi/Multilingualism and Language Shift in Chhantyal

Trajectories of language and the culture of the Gopali community in the Chitlang Valley

Multilingualism and Language Contact in Maithili: Trends, Traits and Impact in Sociolinguistic Spaces

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