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September 17, 2025

Language Contact Studies in Nepal: Trends and Prospects

Puntos clave

Language contact in Nepal has diverse ideological outcomes, and understanding these can enhance policy-making.
The review highlights key studies, including Noonan (2003) and Gautam (2021), emphasizing their contributions to the field.
Various socio-cultural aspects impact language contact, shaping how languages interact within Nepal's diverse context.
Future directions for research are proposed, focusing on both theoretical and practical implications for language policy.

Resumen

This paper is a review of major language contact studies in Nepal especially focusing on Noonan (2003) and Gautam (2021) based on different aspects. Furthermore, the paper aims to summarize language contact studies in Nepal and discusses its trends and suggests possible areas of language contact studies, which is based on various secondary sources published in this area of study. However, language contact studies can be carried out either focusing on various socio-cultural processes, conversational constraints and role of different pragmatic elements in languages that shape different language ideologies, which motivate contacts or outcomes of language contact based on lexical and grammatical levels of language. Furthermore, it visualize the future trends and prospects to shape Nepal’s language policy in different diversified contexts.

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