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| name = Kochila Tharu<br />
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| states = [[Nepal]]<br />
| region = <br />
| ethnicity = [[Tharu people|Tharu]]<br />
| speakers = 0.3 millions in Nepal<br />
| date = 2011 census<br />
| ref = e18<br />
| speakers2 = <br />
| familycolor = Indo-European<br />
| fam2 = [[Indo-Iranian languages|Indo-Iranian]]<br />
| fam3 = [[Indo-Aryan languages|Indo-Aryan]]<br />
| fam4 = various Central and [[List of Eastern Indo-Aryan languages|Eastern]]<br />
| script = [[Devanagari]]<br />
| nation = Tharuban of [[Nepal]]<br />
| iso3 = thq<br />
| glotto = koch1247<br />
| glottorefname = Kochila Tharu<br />
}}<br />
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'''Kochila Tharu''', also called '''Septari''' or '''Saptariya Tharu, Madhya-Purbiya Tharu,''' and '''Mid-Eastern Tharu''', is a diverse group of language varieties in the [[Tharu languages|Tharu group]] of the [[Indo-Aryan languages]]. The several names of the varieties refer to the regions where they dominate.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|url=https://www.ethnologue.com/language/thq|title=Tharu, Madhya-Purbiya|website=Ethnologue|language=en|access-date=2018-12-12}}</ref> It is one of the largest subgroupings of Tharu.<ref>{{Cite book|title=Encyclopedia of the World's Minorities.|last=Carl.|first=Skutsch|date=2013|publisher=Taylor and Francis|isbn=9781135193959|location=Hoboken|oclc=863823479}}</ref> It is spoken mainly in Nepal and India, with approximately 250,000 speakers as of 2003.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book|title=International encyclopedia of linguistics|date=2003|publisher=Oxford University Press|others=Frawley, William, 1953-|isbn=0195139771|edition= 2nd|location=Oxford|pages=484|oclc=51478240}}</ref> In addition to language, cultural markers around attire and customs connect individuals into the ethnic identity Kochila.<br />
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Heavily concentrated in the eastern area of [[Terai]],<ref name=":0" /> speakers of Kochila Tharu live in linguistically diverse regions and are generally multilingual (with the exception of some elderly female speakers).<ref name=":2">{{Cite web|url=https://www.sil.org/system/files/reapdata/13/61/99/136199776406127007473396089765757813692/Kochila_Tharu_Report.pdf|title=A Sociolinguistic Study of Kochila Tharu in Southeast Nepal|last=Eichentopf|first=Stephanie R.|last2=Mitchell|first2=Jessica R.|website=www.sil.org|access-date=2018-12-12}}</ref> A 2013 survey by [[SIL International]] found that the language was being taught to children as their first language and used conversationally between multiple generations of speakers, characteristics of a "vigorous" language as defined by the [[Ethnologue]] Expanded Graded Intergenerational Disruption Scale (''EGIDS'').<ref name=":1" /><ref name=":2" /><br />
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== References ==<br />
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{{Languages of Nepal}}<br />
{{Bihari languages}}<br />
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[[Category:Eastern Indo-Aryan languages]]<br />
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