Badikhel Explained

Official Name:Badikhel
Native Name:बडिखेल
Settlement Type:Village of Godawari Municipality
Pushpin Map:Nepal
Pushpin Label Position:bottom
Pushpin Mapsize:300
Pushpin Map Caption:Location in Nepal
Subdivision Type:Country
Subdivision Name: Nepal
Subdivision Type1:Province
Subdivision Name1:Province No. 3
Subdivision Type2:District
Subdivision Name2:Lalitpur District
Population As Of:1991
Population Total:2711
Population Density Km2:auto
Population Blank1 Title:Ethnicities
Timezone:Nepal Time
Utc Offset:+5:45
Coordinates:27.59°N 85.35°W
Area Code:524205255023

Badikhel is a village and former Village Development Committee that is now part of Godawari Municipality in Province No. 3 of central Nepal. At the time of the 1991 Nepal census it had a population of 2,711 in 461 individual households.[1] Bamboo is one of the major natural product of this village.

A local dialect of the Newar language is spoken here. Its native speakers call it Pahari (Pāhāri) or Nagarkote, while to the Newar speakers of neighbouring Patan it is known as Pahibhāe.[2]

References

  1. Web site: Nepal Census 2001 . Nepal's Village Development Committees . . 2008-09-03 . https://web.archive.org/web/20081012163506/http://www.digitalhimalaya.com/collections/nepalcensus/form.php?selection=1 . 12 October 2008 . dead .
  2. Book: Shreshtha, Rudra Laxmi. 2003. Verbal morphology of the Badikhel Pahari dialect of Newar. Themes in Himalayan languages and linguistics. Kansakar. Tej Ratna. Turin. Mark. South Asia Institute ; Tribhuvan University. Heidelberg ; Kathmandu. 978-99933-54-16-1. 145–62.

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