There are an estimated 17 million speakers of Nepali worldwide, including 11 million speakers within Nepal. Home to Mount Everest and the birthplace of the Buddha, tourism is the countrys main industry and the Nepali government has named 2011 Nepal Tourism Year by launching a campaign to attract one million tourists to the country this year. Contains more than 15, 000 entries, and each entry includes part of speech, alternate words, Devanagari script as well as phonetic (Romanized) pronunciation. Also provides a section on basic Nepali grammar, and guides to pronunciation and the Devanagari alphabet.
