Editing Newar language (section)

===''Nepal Bhasa'' movement===
[[File:Black day sit-in 2013 June 1.jpg|thumb|200px|Sit-in outside the prime minister's residence to mark Black Day on 1 June 2013.]]
{{Main|Nepal Bhasa movement}}

Newars have been fighting to save their language in the face of opposition from the government and hostile neighbours from the time of the repressive [[Rana dynasty|Rana regime]] till today.<ref name="Hoek, Bert van den and Shrestha, Balgopal"/> The movement arose against the suppression of the language that began with the rise of the Shah dynasty in 1768&nbsp;AD, and intensified during the Rana regime (1846–1951) and [[Panchayat (Nepal)|Panchayat]] system (1960–1990).<ref>{{cite news|last=Shrestha|first=Bal Gopal|title=The Newars: The Indigenous Population of the Kathmandu Valley in the Modern State of Nepal)|url=http://www.thlib.org/static/reprints/contributions/CNAS_26_01_04.pdf|access-date=20 April 2012|newspaper=CNAS Journal|date=January 1999|archive-date=21 September 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130921054744/http://www.thlib.org/static/reprints/contributions/CNAS_26_01_04.pdf|url-status=live}}</ref>

At various times, the government has forbidden literature in Newar, banned the official use and removed it from the media and the educational system.<ref>{{cite journal |last=Gurung |first=Kishor |date=Nov–Dec 1993 |title=What is Nepali Music? |url=http://himalaya.socanth.cam.ac.uk/collections/journals/himal/pdf/Himal_6_6.pdf |journal=Himal |page=11 |access-date=4 April 2014 |archive-date=7 April 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140407071120/http://himalaya.socanth.cam.ac.uk/collections/journals/himal/pdf/Himal_6_6.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref> Opponents have even petitioned the Supreme Court to have its use barred.

Activism has taken the form of publication of books and periodicals to public meets and protest rallies. Writers and language workers have been jailed or expelled from the country, and they have continued the movement abroad. The struggle for [[linguistic rights]] has sometimes combined with the movement for religious and political freedom in Nepal.