Lalitpur Metropolitan City is a metropolitan city and fourth most populous city of Nepal with 299,843 inhabitants living in 49,044 households per the 2021 census. It is located in the south-central part of Kathmandu Valley, a large valley in the high plateaus in central Nepal, at an altitude of 1,400 metres.
Image: Nepal Patan Mangal
Image: Clean Lalitpur
Panoramic view of the Kathmandu valley from Swayambhu
Patan Durbar Square
Newar or Newari, known officially in Nepal as Nepal Bhasa, is a Sino-Tibetan language spoken by the Newar people, the indigenous inhabitants of Nepal Mandala, which consists of the Kathmandu Valley and surrounding regions in Nepal.
A line from an inscription dated 1706 using the term "Nepāla Bhāṣā" in Pracalit script to refer to the language.
A stone inscription in Classical Newar at Bhaktapur.
Copper plate inscription at Swayambhunath, dated Nepal Sambat 1072 (1952 AD)
ka kha yā mye ("a song of ka and kha"), a Newar language poem written by Briddhi Lakhmi, the queen consort of Bhaktapur.