Gurkhalin.
/ɡʊəˈkɑːli/ a. In plural. The Gurkhas.
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Gurung1819
Limbu1819
Murmi1819
Rai1854
Gurkhali1884
Thakali1928
Tamang1937
1884 Encycl. Brit. XVII. 341/2 The Ghōrkhālis use Parbatiya, a modern dialect of Sanskrit.
1911 Encycl. Brit. XIX. 379/2 The Gurkhalis (Gurkhas or Ghurkhas) are descendants of the Brahmans and Rajputs who were driven out of Hindostan.
1911 Encycl. Brit. XIX. 379/2 The Gurkhalis and western tribes use Khas [language].
b. The language spoken by this people.
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the mind > language > languages of the world > Indo-Hittite > [noun] > Indo-European > Indo-Iranian > Indic > east-central > Nepali
Nepalese1820
Nepali1885
Gurkhali1911
Khaskura1911
1911 Encycl. Brit. XX. 453/1 Khas-kura is also called Gōrkhālī, or the language of the Gurkhas.
1953 J. Masters Lotus & Wind xii. 168 Jagbir would have guessed that the Muralevs could not recognize Gurkhali when they heard it.
1956 J. Masters Bugles & Tiger 131 At evening in my tent I studied Gurkali with the Jemadar head clerk.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1972; most recently modified version published online September 2018).
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