Danwar (also rendered ''Danuwar'', ''Denwar'', ''Dhanvar'', ''Dhanwar'') is a language spoken in parts of

Nepal Nepal (; ne, नेपाल ), formerly the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal ( ne, सङ्घीय लोकतान्त्रिक गणतन्त्र नेपाल ), is a landlocked country in South Asia. It is ma ...

by an Indo-Aryan ethnic group of fifty thousand. It is close to Bote-Darai but otherwise unclassified within the

Indo-Aryan languages The Indo-Aryan languages (or sometimes Indic languages) are a branch of the Indo-Iranian languages in the Indo-European language family. As of the early 21st century, they have more than 800 million speakers, primarily concentrated in India, P ...

. A variety called Danwar Rai, It is not related to the

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of the Tibeto-Burman family.

References

Languages of Nepal Indo-Aryan languages {{IndoAryan-lang-stub