Badikhel

Village of Godawari Municipality in Province No. 3, Nepal

Badikhel बडिखेल
Village of Godawari Municipality
27°35′N 85°21′E / 27.59°N 85.35°E / 27.59; 85.35
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]

References

^ "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.