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South Asia Program

Cornell University

Nepali Language

SAP publishes beginning and intermediate Nepali language textbooks and a Nepali-English glossary.  The Cornell University Library also hosts an online database of NGOs in Nepal.

Intermediate and Advance Nepali: Reading and Grammatical Structures

Banu Oja & Shambhu Oja
The texts in this reader are recognizable as traditional stories from Nepal and from similar stories recounted around the world. This textbook is intended to assist intermediate and advanced students…
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Nepali-English & English-Nepali Glossary

Shambhu Oja, Banu Oja, Mark Turin, Elisabeth Uphoff
This glossary has been compiled from the vocabulary contained in Cornell’s other three Nepali textbooks.  All the words in this glossary are coded by subject and by the chapter or story in which…
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Nepali: A Beginner's Primer CD

Cornell University
One CD in .mp3 format. Lessons 1-16. Accompanies Nepali: A Beginner's Primer textbook.
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Nepali: A Beginner's Primer, Conversation and Grammar

Banu Oja & Shambhu Oja
This textbook introduces students to the Nepali language through 16 lessons.
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