TABLE  11	PRECENTAGE DISTRIBUTION OF THE POPULATION BY MOTHER TONGUE, BY REGIONS
	Nepal		East				Center	Mid	West	Far
Mother Tongue		Eastern	Inner	Eastern	Kathmandu	Western	Inner	Western	Inner	Western
		Hills	Terai	Terai	Valley	Hills	Terai	Terai	Terai	Terai
All Languages	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0
Nepali	48.7	51.3	55.8	4.4	39.3	82.6	37.9	36.5	2	3.3
Maithili Pradesh Dia *	7.5	0	55.8	34.1	0	82.6	0		2
Tamang or Lama	6	14	1.3	9.9	4.7	0	33.1
Eastern Terai Dialects *	5.6	0	14.5	25.5	0	3.5	5.2		0.5	0.4
Newari	4.7	4.5	0	0.4	55	1.7	11.7	56.8	19.7	63.7
Tharu	4.4	0	1.9	1.4	0	0.9	0	0	0
Maithili Pradesh Dialedts	3.7	0	5.6	16.7	0	0	2	0.1	0.2
Magar	3.3	3	11.7	0.7	0.3	5.7	0.2		74.1
Mid Western Terai Dialect *	3.1	0	0	0			0		0
Rai Kirat	2.9	12.9	6.4	0.2			1		0.1
Gurung	2	0.5		0	0.1	4.7			0
Limbu	1.8	8.5		0	0				0
Morang Pradesh Dialects *	1.3			5.9	0				1.9	2.3
Hindi	1			3.5	0.2	0.1		1.3		0
Bhote Sherpa	0.9	3.1		0		0.5		0		27.7
Far Western Terai Dialects *	0.8			0				4.8	1.3	0
Rajbansi or Tajpuri	0.4			2				0.0.3		2
Urdu	0.4			1	0.2	0.1
Sunuwar	0.2	1	0.5	0
Satar	0.2			0.9
Bojpuri	0.2			0.9
Chepang	0.2			0			5.8
Thami	0.1	0.6	0.1	0			0
Bengali	0.1	0	0	0.5			0
Danuwar	0.1	0.2	1.9	0	0.1		0.7
Other Languages	0.5	0.5	0.2	0.9	0.1	0.2	2.1	0.2	0.2	6.5
	*	See notes Table 10