{"id":2403,"date":"2026-05-09T22:04:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T22:04:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/?p=2403"},"modified":"2026-05-09T22:04:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T22:04:10","slug":"working-to-preserve-a-language-in-nepal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/?p=2403","title":{"rendered":"Working to preserve a language in Nepal"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"vlp-link-container vlp-layout-lnk-sptlght wp-block-visual-link-preview-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/Daily\/2026\/20260507\/Working-to-preserve-a-language-in-Nepal\" class=\"vlp-link\" title=\"Working to preserve a language in Nepal\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><div class=\"vlp-layout-zone-side\"><div class=\"vlp-block-3 vlp-link-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/extension\/csm_daily\/design\/csm_design\/images\/csm_daily_logo_900x600.png\" style=\"max-width: 1024px; max-height: 1024px\" \/><\/div><\/div><div class=\"vlp-layout-zone-main\"><div class=\"vlp-block-0 vlp-link-url\">www.csmonitor.com<\/div><div class=\"vlp-block-1 vlp-link-title\">Working to preserve a language in Nepal<\/div><div class=\"vlp-block-2 vlp-link-summary\">The Newar people have lived in the Kathmandu Valley of Nepal and surrounding areas for centuries. But the Newar language \u2013 also called Nepalbhasa \u2013 was banned, from 1846 until 1951. People caught using the language were put in prison or expelled. Use of the language declined through the 20th century, and some experts believe that it could disappear in the next 30 or so years. That\u2019s why a group in Kathmandu is working to preserve the historic calligraphy of the Newars. Zinara Rathnayake has the story for us today.<\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-2403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cultura","tag-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2403"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2403\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2404,"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2403\/revisions\/2404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}