Editing Newar language (section)

===Medieval era===
{{Main articles|Classical Newar}}
[[File:MS Indic 1936, Appeasement of the Grahas Wellcome L0031358.jpg|thumb|A page from a [[Hindu astrology|Astrology]] book from 1480 written in Newar.]]
[[File:A Nepalese Expenditure Book from 1681.jpg|thumb|A expenditure book written in the Newar Language from 1681.]]
It is during this period that the earliest dated document written entirely in [[Classical Newar|Newar]] was written, a [[palm-leaf manuscript]] preserved in Uku Bāhā, a [[Bahal, Nepal|Buddhist monastery]] in [[Lalitpur, Nepal|Lalitpur]], which dates from 1114.<ref name=":3">{{cite news |last=Malla |first=Kamal P |title=The Earliest Dated Document in Newari: The Palmleaf from Uku Bahah NS 234/AD 1114 |url=http://www.kpmalla.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/kailash_16_0102_02.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160108161716/http://www.kpmalla.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/kailash_16_0102_02.pdf/ |archive-date=8 January 2016 |access-date=9 February 2012 |newspaper=Kailash}} Pages 15–25.</ref> Following is a line from the document which mostly deals with business transaction.<ref name=":3" /> 
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|chīna ḍhākō tr̥saṃghaṣa paribhōga, chu pulēṃga kītya bipāra vastra 
bivu mikhā tivu maduguna chu sāta duguna valhe
|The community should keep an eye on what remains and 
replace for what is lost, with a remaining object or gift rightly
sold out, give some clothes.
|}
The first inscription written entirely in Newar set up by the royal family also dates from this period; a stone inscription from [[Bajrayogini Temple]] of Rudra Malla from 1127 ([[Nepal Sambat|NS]] 293).<ref name=":6">{{Cite news |last=Vaidya |first=Dr. Janak Lal |date=4 November 1994 |title=nepāla bhāṣā sāhityayā dhāḥ |trans-title=The Literature of Nepal Bhasa |url=https://archive.org/details/nepalbhashasahityayaitihascompiledbyjanaklalvaidya/mode/1up |work=Kheluita |pages=58 |language=new |volume=16}}</ref>

The Newar language of the Medieval era (879 to 1769 CE) is referred as [[Classical Newar]].<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Turin |first=Mark |date=2000 |title=Shared words, shared history? The case of Thangmi and Late Classical Newar |url=https://shs.hal.science/halshs-03083397/document |journal=The Journal of Newar Studies |publisher=Newâh Vijñâna |volume=3 |issue=9–17}}</ref> It is further classified into Early Classical Newar, used from 879 to 1482, when the [[Malla dynasty (Nepal)#Period of three kingdoms|period of three kingdom started]] and Late Classical Newar, from 1482 to 1769, when the [[Battle of Bhaktapur|Malla dynasty ended]].

In the 14th century, Newar was given the status of national language by [[Jayasthiti Malla]].<ref name=":2" /> Since then, most of royal decrees, official proclamations and public notices set up by the monarchs appeared in Newar.<ref name="Lienhard, Siegfried 1992 Page 3" /> [[Jayasthiti Malla]] himself commissioned many works in Newar like the [[Gopal Raj Vamshavali]], a manuscript about the history of Nepal dating to 1389.<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Vajracarya |first1=Dhanavajra |url=https://archive.org/details/GopalarajaVamsavaliDhanavajraVajracaryaAndKamalP..Malla |title=The Gopalarajavamsavali |last2=Malla |first2=Kamal P. |publisher=Franz Steiner Verlag Wiesbaden GMBH |year=1985 |isbn=3-515-04349-7}}</ref> From the 14th century onwards, an overwhelming number of [[stone inscriptions in the Kathmandu Valley]], where they are a ubiquitous element at heritage sites, are in Newar.<ref>{{cite book |last=Gutschow |first=Niels |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IQp_957RRtAC&q=The+Nepalese+Caitya: |title=The Nepalese Caitya: 1500 Years of Buddhist Votive Architecture in the Kathmandu Valley |publisher=Edition Axel Menges |year=1997 |isbn=9783930698752 |page=25 |access-date=26 March 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230323054535/https://books.google.com/books?id=IQp_957RRtAC&q=The+Nepalese+Caitya: |archive-date=23 March 2023 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>Bajracharya, Chunda (1985). ''Mallakalya Chhun Sanskriti'' ("Some Customs of the Malla Period"). Kathmandu: Kashinath Tamot for Nepal Bhasa Study and Research Centre.</ref>

The period from 1428 to 1769 is considered a Golden Age for [[Newar literature|Newar Literature]]. Many monarchs of the Malla dynasty themselves started composing hymns and dramas in Newar. Noted royal writers include [[Mahendra Malla|Mahindra Malla]], [[Siddhi Narasimha Malla|Siddhi Narsingh Malla]], and [[Ranajit Malla]].  Still, there are numerous works of literature from this period with anonymous authors. Some non royal authors include Keshav Udās, Brisabhānanda and Biladātāsingha.{{Sfn|Vaidya|2002|p=180}} 

Some notable women who wrote literature in Newar during this period include, Jagatakeshari from [[Banepa]], [[Briddhi Lakshmi]] (queen consort of [[Kingdom of Bhaktapur|Bhaktapur]]), Riddhi Lakshmi (mother of [[Bhupalendra Malla]]), Jaya Lakshmi (queen consort of [[Yoga Narendra Malla]]).{{Sfn|Vaidya|2002|p=189}} Among them, Riddhi Lakshmi is considered to be the first woman to publish literature in Nepal as her poems are the earliest dated literature in Nepal authored by a woman.{{Sfn|Vaidya|2002|p=119}} 

An example of the language used during this period is provided by the following lines from a poem written by [[Briddhi Lakshmi]].{{Sfn|Vaidya|2002|p=124}}
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!English Translation<ref>{{Cite news |last=Dhaubhadel |first=Om Prasad |date=September 2020 |title=''Ranajita Malla ra satbahale rajkumara haru'' |url=https://www.bhaktapurmun.gov.np/sites/bhaktapurmun.gov.np/files/documents/BKT-286%20A.pdf |work=Bhaktapur |publisher=Bhaktapur Municipality |pages=33–38 |language=Ne |volume=286}}</ref>
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|''kokila kokha o tī bhatu gilakhā va ati uti dhaka thva jugasa jula'' 
''dukha hāṅā hāṅā parabata jina lhvaneṅa maphuta,'' ''madata vipatiyā udhāra''
|This is the age, where the crow and cuckoo are considered equal, where the owl and the parrot are considered the same

I can no longer bear the mountain of grief; there is no salvation for the grieved
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