  DangauraTharuLanguage
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DangauraTharuLanguage
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The DangauraTharuLanguage is an unclassified CentralZoneIndoAryanLanguage of Nepal. SIL code: THL. ISO 639-2: inc. Population: 300,000 or more in Nepal (1991 census). 993,388 all Tharu, 5.37% of the population (1991 census). Population total both countries: 343,000. Region: Rapti Zone, Dang District. Also in other areas of the Tarai, like Bardiya, Banke, Kailali, and Kanchanpur districts. Alternate names: DANG THARU. Comments: 68% to 91% intelligibility of Rana, 95% to 97% of Kathoriya. Some varieties listed as dialects have only 71% to 79% intelligibility of others. Some intelligibility difficulty with speakers from India. Closest to Mari Tharu. Possibly Eastern Hindi Group. 74% to 79% lexical similarity with Kathoriya, 72% to 74% with Sunha, 63% to 72% with Rana Thakur, 61% to 67% with Chitwan, 58% to 65% with Hindi. Educated people tend to be more bilingual in Nepali, men more than women, young people more than older people. Hindi and Maithili are also used. Dangaura is used almost exclusively in the family, with older people, children, and mainly with village leaders. They usually use Tharu with other Tharu, but sometimes Nepali. All ages. Vigorous. The Rana Tharu and Dangaura Tharu are well known, but the Kathoriya Tharu and other smaller groups are often unknown. Dang and Dangora are separate clans. Investigation needed: intelligibility with Deokuri, Kathoriya. Dictionary. SOV; postpositions, genitives after noun heads, adjectives, numerals before noun heads, CV, CVC, CCV, nontonal. Literacy rate in first language: Below 1%. Literacy rate in second language: 27.7% all Tharu (1991 census). Devanagari. Radio programs. Subtropical. Hill, valley. Agriculturalists. 600 to 900 meters. Traditional religion, Hindu overly. Also spoken in: India. (Language name: THARU, DANGAURA.) Population: 31,000 in India (1981 census). Alternate names: DANG, DANGORA, DANGURA, DANGALI, DANGHA. Comments: 63% to 72% lexical similarity with Rana Tharu, 74% to 79% with Kathoriya Tharu, 58% to 65% with Hindi. Hindi bilingual proficiency is limited among the 70% to 90% who are uneducated. Tharu is a Scheduled Tribe in India. Investigation needed: intelligibility with dialects. Literacy rate in second language: 20% to 25% (census). Hindu, traditional religion.(extract from http://www.ethnologue.com/)
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| Instances | CentralZoneIndoAryanLanguage | Of the 210 IndoAryanLanguages, 67 of these are classified as a CentralZoneIndoAryanLanguage.(extract from http://www.ethnologue.com/) |
| | ContentBearingPhysical | Any Object or Process that expresses content. This covers Objects that contain a Proposition, such as a book, as well as ManualSignLanguage, which may similarly contain a Proposition. |
| | Entity | The universal class of individuals. This is the root node of the ontology. |
| | HumanLanguage | The subclass of Languages used by Humans. |
| | IndoAryanLanguage | Of the 296 IndoIranianLanguages, 210 of these are classified as an IndoAryanLanguage.(extract from http://www.ethnologue.com/) |
| | IndoEuropeanLanguage | There are 433 languages categorized as an IndoEuropeanLanguage, forming a major family of the world's languages and including many of the most familiar languages of Europe and South Asia.(extract from http://www.ethnologue.com/) |
| | IndoIranianLanguage | An IndoIranianLanguage is any of 296 closely related IndoEuropeanLanguages spoken in south Asia and nearby regions.(extract from http://www.ethnologue.com/) |
| | Language | A system of signs for expressing thought. The system can be either natural or artificial, i.e. something that emerges gradually as a cultural artifact or something that is intentionally created by a person or group of people. |
| | LanguageFamily | A LanguageFamily is group of SpokenHumanLanguages related through descent from a common ancestral language. (reference from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language_family) |
| | LinguisticExpression | This is the subclass of ContentBearingPhysical which are language-related. Note that this Class encompasses both Language and the the elements of Languages, e.g. Words. |
| | NaturalLanguage | The subclass of HumanLanguages which are not designed and which evolve from generation to generation. This Class includes all of the national languages, e.g. English, Spanish, Japanese, etc. Note that this class includes dialects of natural languages. |
| | Physical | An entity that has a location in space-time. Note that locations are themselves understood to have a location in space-time. |
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