Newar

English

Alternative forms

Noun

Newar pl (plural only)

  1. The historical inhabitants of the Kathmandu Valley and its surrounding areas in Nepal, and creators of its historic heritage and civilization.

Proper noun

Newar

  1. (linguistics) The Sino-Tibetan language of this people.
  2. Synonym of Newa (“script”).
    • 2022 September, “Version 15.0 – Core Specification”, in Unicode‎[1], page 533:
      The Newa script, also known as Nepaalalipi in Nepal and as Newar in English-speaking countries, is a Brahmi-based script that dates to the tenth century ce.

Anagrams

This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.