Badikhel
बडिखेल | |
|---|---|
Village of Godawari Municipality | |
  Badikhel Location in Nepal | |
| Coordinates: 27°35′N 85°21′E / 27.59°N 85.35°E | |
| Country |  Nepal |
| Province | Province No. 3 |
| District | Lalitpur District |
| Population (1991) | |
| • Total | 2,711 |
| Time zone | UTC+5:45 (Nepal Time) |
| Area code | 524205255023 |
Badikhel is a village and former Village Development Committee that is now part of Godawari Municipality in Province No. 3 of central Nepal. At the time of the 1991 Nepal census it had a population of 2,711 in 461 individual households.[1] Bamboo is one of the major natural product of this village.
A local dialect of the Newar language is spoken here. Its native speakers call it Pahari (Pāhāri) or Nagarkote, while to the Newar speakers of neighbouring Patan it is known as Pahibhāe.[2]
- ^ "Nepal Census 2001". Nepal's Village Development Committees. Digital Himalaya. Archived from the original on 12 October 2008. Retrieved 2008-09-03.
- ^ Shreshtha, Rudra Laxmi (2003). "Verbal morphology of the Badikhel Pahari dialect of Newar". In Kansakar, Tej Ratna; Turin, Mark (eds.). Themes in Himalayan languages and linguistics. Heidelberg ; Kathmandu: South Asia Institute ; Tribhuvan University. pp. 145–62. ISBN 978-99933-54-16-1.