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Preserve the Endangered Language of the Darai Indigenous Peoples of Nepal
Rajkumar D.
started this petition to
https://sites.google.com/site/daraiindigenoussocietynepal/events
-Preserve the endangered language of Darai Indigenous Peoples of Nepal."A 2013 campaign by the Darai Indigenous Society, Nepal for the preservation of the Darai language" Darai indigenous peoples speak Darai language in Nepal. Darai language is one of the minority language with a least number of speakers in Nepal . The name of the language is Darai which is the only known name in current usage in Nepal. It is an Indo Aryan in the language family. Darai is one of the nationalities of Nepal. Darai is an ethnic group. Darai caste is one of marginalised Group of Indigenous in Nepal. They are the Indigenous people of Nepal since long . Total number of Darai ethnic is 14,859 in Nepal, according to Census 2001.They speak 'Darai' language as their mother tongue. 10,210 Darai people speak their Darai language in Nepal. The greatest number of them have been living in the inner Nepal for several thousand years. Most of this people live in Chitwan, Tanhun, Nawalparasi, Gorkha, Palpa and Dhading districts in the area of western and central of Nepal. Darai indigenous people who have their own language, and traditional rites and customs, distinct cultural identity, distinct social structure are facing so many social problems and they are backwards in economically and education and health https://www.sites.google.com/site/daraiindigenoussocietynepal are losing their language also. Darai language is an endangered language, is going to be lost. Nowadays most of Darai people don't speak their language. But they want to speak their language and to preserve because they want to protect their language for their coming generations. They want to preserve their language by reading, learning. If we don't speak this language, it will be lost from Darai community. If the language will be lost, Darai indigenous peoples identity is also lost. It needs awareness raising program for preservation of the endangered language of Darai. It will be applied to Darai people immediately.
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