Nepali graduated onto MulingStream's own site days ago. Until then it was a language the product could translate into but not talk to you in, and those are different things. Now a Nepali speaker can read every page here, including the pricing, before they ask anybody a question. That is the practical shape of the promise: not only that we can carry your sermon, but that the person following it can find out how this works without needing a translator to explain the translator.
Nepali is written in Devanagari, and the script does several things a Latin alphabet never has to.
The first thing you notice is the line. Devanagari hangs its letters from a horizontal bar that runs across the top of the word, so a line of Nepali reads as a row of shapes suspended from a rail rather than a row of shapes sitting on a floor. Break that bar in the wrong place and the word looks amputated.
Vowels attach to consonants rather than standing beside them. They can sit above, below, before or after the letter they belong to, and one of them is written before the consonant it is pronounced after. Two or three consonants that meet with no vowel between them fuse into a single joined shape, which is why Devanagari needs more vertical room than Latin text at the same size.
All of which means Nepali captions need to be given space and left alone. Squeezed line height clips the marks above and below. Aggressive letter spacing pulls apart shapes that are meant to be one. On a phone this is merely ugly. On a projector at the front of a room it is unreadable from the back.
One small practical thing. Devanagari has its own digits, which look nothing like the ones on a European clock face. Chapter and verse references may appear in either set depending on the source, and a Nepali reader handles both without blinking. If your congregation has a preference, say so and it can be settled once.
Danish in, Nepali out, through the same path a live room uses. Nothing edited, nothing chosen after the fact.
र पवित्र आत्मा तिनीहरू सबैमाथि ओर्लिनुभयो, र तिनीहरूले अन्य भाषाहरूमा बोल्न थाल्नुभयो।
From the Danish Og Ånden faldt over dem alle sammen, og de begyndte at tale på andre sprog.
The Danish word means spirit, ghost, or a bottle of spirits, and only the passage decides which. This is Acts 2, and the Nepali says the Holy Spirit by name. Notice the verbs at the ends of both halves: Nepali marks respect inside the verb itself, and these are the respectful forms a sermon would use.
अनुग्रहद्वारा तिमीहरू विश्वासमार्फत उद्धार भएका हौ, र यो तिमीहरूबाट होइन, यो परमेश्वरको उपहार हो।
From the Danish Af nåde er I frelst ved tro, og det skyldes ikke jer selv, det er Guds gave.
Ephesians 2:8. The first word is the whole of by grace, one word with the sense of through attached to the end of it, and it is the church word rather than the everyday word for kindness. Salvation is the theological term, not the ordinary word for being rescued.
Look at where the verbs are. In both sentences the verb arrives at the very end. Nepali builds a sentence subject, then object, then action, which means you often cannot know what is being done until the speaker has finished saying it. That is why a live translation cannot simply be a running substitution of words. It has to wait for the sentence to make sense, and then say the whole of it.
There are four Nepali voices, and for a good part of a congregation they are not an extra. They are the version that works.
Reading Devanagari at speed is a skill people have to different degrees. Somebody schooled in Nepal reads it fluently. Somebody who grew up speaking Nepali at home in another country may speak it perfectly and read it slowly, because the reading was never taught. Older guests may have had little formal schooling at all.
A voice sidesteps every bit of that. One earphone in, the other ear on the room, and the sermon arrives in Nepali while everybody else hears it as it is spoken. Your guest still hears the singing. They still hear the person beside them laugh at the right moment.
Captions and voice run at the same time, and it costs nothing extra either way. Some people want both, one to follow and one to check.
Three separate questions, and Nepali answers yes to all three.
A Nepali pastor can preach in Nepali and a mixed room follows in its own languages. One of the 81 languages that can be the source, not only the destination.
Devanagari on a guest's own phone, or at the front with MulingDisplay. One of 182 languages that can be read.
Four Nepali voices, a man or a woman as the room prefers. One of 81 languages that can be listened to rather than read.
And, as of days ago, this website itself is published in Nepali, which is true of only a minority of the 183 languages in the list.
More people than most host churches expect, and not all of them from the same place.
Nepali speaking congregations have been forming across Europe for years, often small, often meeting in borrowed buildings, often with no budget for anything at all. Some grew out of work: care, hospitality, construction, seasonal agriculture. Some grew out of student communities. Some have a long connection to the United Kingdom through military service that goes back generations.
Nepali speakers are not only from Nepal. There are Nepali speaking communities in parts of India, and a Bhutanese Nepali speaking population resettled across several countries. Somebody may speak Nepali as their whole life's language and have never lived in Nepal.
And Nepal itself holds many languages. Nepali is the shared one, and for a great many people it is a fluent second language rather than the one they were sung to sleep in. Newar, Maithili, Tamang and others are first languages for millions who also speak excellent Nepali. If a guest names one of those and it is not in our list, we would rather you told us than worked around it.
The Christian community among Nepali speakers is young and it is growing, which means a Nepali guest in your church may be a first generation believer whose family is not. That is worth knowing before you invite somebody to say something from the front.
Assume no warning at all. This still works.
Nepali, English or something else entirely are all plausible answers from the same person. Only they know. Four seconds at the door beats an assumption that lasts an hour.
They point a phone camera at your code and pick Nepali. Nothing to install, no account, no sign up, and the screen they land on is already in Nepali.
Keep a basket of cheap wired earphones by the door. For a script that not everyone reads quickly, this is the difference between following and half following.
Put it on the sheet or say it at the door. Never name a person or a language from the platform. The point is that they can follow, not that they are being accommodated.
Nepali is the newest thing here, which is a reason for candour rather than for confidence.
Same script, different languages. Devanagari is used for Nepali, Hindi, Marathi and others, and sharing an alphabet says as little about two languages as sharing the Latin one does about English and Polish. They are related and they are not interchangeable. See the Hindi page for the other half of that story.
It should, and it is worth a thirty second check on a phone before a service rather than finding out in front of a room. The things to look at are whether the marks above and below the letters are being clipped, and whether joined letter shapes are being pulled apart. Both are layout problems, not language problems, and both are fixable.
Yes, and it is the better one for many people. There are four Nepali voices. One earphone and they hear the sermon rather than reading it, which for an older guest or somebody who learned Nepali by speaking rather than by schooling is the difference between following and giving up quietly.
Yes. Nepali can be the language coming off the stage as well as one of the languages in the pews. A Nepali fellowship sharing a building with a host congregation can hold one joint service instead of two separate ones, with each person hearing it in their own language.
Nothing to install, no card, and your guest needs nothing but the phone already in their pocket and one earphone.