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our lanGuaGe
Lesson 3 Unit 2
and coStume

Objectives:

On completion of this lesson, students will be able to:
• Describe about the different language, festivals and costumes of their communities.

Different faces of Nepal

Nepal is a country having different people from various castes living
together. They have their own languages, local dialects, castes, customs
and different ways of living. The people who live in our country are

Chhetri, Brahmin, Rai, Gurung, Limbu, Sherpa, Thakali, Magar, Newar,
Tharu, Dhimal, Damai, Kami, Sarki, Majhi, Rajbanshi, etc. These groups of
people have their own culture. Here, we are going to study about some
of them.

Brahmin and Chhetri: They live almost in all the districts of Nepal.
They usually follow Hinduism and speak our national language, Nepali.
They celebrate various Hindu festivals such as Dashain, Tihar, Janaipurnima,
Teej, etc. Dashain is their biggest festival.

Newar: They are the inhabitants of the Kathmandu valley. Their main
occupation has been agriculture and business. Newars are also called as
the Marwaris of Nepal for they run business in most of the trade centres

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