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In India, there are a large number of Nepali-speaking people. There are an
estimated 500,000 Nepali speakers in Sikkim (where Nepali is the official
state language.) In Darjeeling and Jalpaiguri districts of West Bengal,
there are about 1,400,000 Nepali speakers. In North-East India (states of
Assam, Meghalaya, Nagaland, Manipur, Tripura, Mizoram and Arunachal
Pradesh), there are several million Nepali speakers. A considerable number
of Nepali-speaking people are also present in many Indian cities such as
Kolkata, Delhi, Bangalore, Visakhapatnam, Chennai, Mumbai and Hyderabad.


At the recently concluded WikiConference a Nepali Wikipedian, Saroj Dhakal,
gave us a wonderful overview of Nepali Wikiprojects. I just noticed that
most of the active contributors of Nepali wikipedia are staying in India.

Kindly read the experience of Nepali Wikipedians at
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_-_India_Programs/Indic_Languages/Nepali/Discussions/2011


Inviting your comments on the talk page.

Shiju

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 I am sharing the experience of the Nepali Wiki community.</div><div><br></=
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>As part of my discussion with Indic language Wikipedians I spoke with Nepa=
li wikipedians also (Rajesh pandey, Bhawani Gautham, and Saroj Dhakal). You=
 know all of them since they are active in India list also. Please read the=
ir experiences with the Nepali Wiki projects here.=A0<a href=3D"http://meta=
.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_-_India_Programs/Indic_Languages/N=
epali/Discussions/2011">http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation=
_-_India_Programs/Indic_Languages/Nepali/Discussions/2011</a></span><div>
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<div style=3D"color: rgb(34, 34, 34); "><br></div><div style=3D"color: rgb(=
34, 34, 34); ">Nepali with more than 16 million speakers world wide, has mo=
re than 3 million speakers in India. Nepali is one of the 22 scheduled lang=
uages of india. The speakers of Nepali are distributed across India, even t=
hough a more concentration of speakers of Nepali language is in North Easte=
rn India. =A0</div>
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"Apple-style-span" color=3D"#000066">In India, there are a large number of =
Nepali-speaking people. There are an estimated 500,000 Nepali speakers in S=
ikkim (where Nepali is the official state language.) In Darjeeling and Jalp=
aiguri districts of West Bengal, there are about 1,400,000 Nepali speakers.=
 In North-East India (states of Assam, Meghalaya, Nagaland, Manipur, Tripur=
a, Mizoram and Arunachal Pradesh), there are several million Nepali speaker=
s. A considerable number of Nepali-speaking people are also present in many=
 Indian cities such as Kolkata, Delhi, Bangalore, Visakhapatnam, Chennai, M=
umbai and Hyderabad.</font></div>
<div style=3D"color: rgb(34, 34, 34); "><br></div><div style=3D"color: rgb(=
34, 34, 34); "><br></div></span><span style=3D"border-collapse:collapse;col=
or:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><div>At the r=
ecently concluded WikiConference a Nepali Wikipedian, Saroj Dhakal, gave us=
 a wonderful overview of Nepali Wikiprojects. I just noticed that most of t=
he active contributors of Nepali wikipedia are staying in India.=A0</div>
<div><br></div><div>Kindly read the experience of Nepali Wikipedians at=A0<=
a href=3D"http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_-_India_Progr=
ams/Indic_Languages/Nepali/Discussions/2011">http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki=
/Wikimedia_Foundation_-_India_Programs/Indic_Languages/Nepali/Discussions/2=
011</a></div>
<div><br></div><div><br></div></span><span class=3D"Apple-style-span" style=
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