Learning Hindi Reveals Urdu, Nepali, and Bengali—A Linguistic Map of the Indian Subcontinent

When you learn Indonesian, you start to "somehow understand" Tagalog or Malagasy. The same thing happens with Hindi.There is ...
The Hechinger Report

Nepal says students have a right to learn in their native languages —but it still isn’t happening

Third grade students take turns reading lessons aloud to their classmates at Mangal Prasad Secondary School in Banke, Nepal. Credit: Amrita Jaisi for Global Press Journal Nepal. The Hechinger Report ...
Global Voices Online

A Nepali migrant learns the language of overseas work

This article by Raju Subedi was originally published in Nepali Times as a part of their Diaspora Diaries series and an edited version is republished on Global Voices as part of a content-sharing ...
Worldcrunch

Nepalese Classrooms, Where Languages Go To Die

Students in third grade at Mangal Prasad Secondary School in Banke take turns reading aloud to their classmates. Amrita Jaisi/Global Press Journal BANKE — English and health studies are 14-year-old ...