[2] Rana Tharu is also spoken in specific areas of Uttar Pradesh, India including the Lakhimpur Kheri district, particularly in Palia Kalan and Chandan Chauki block, situated on the India–Nepal border.
The language has linguistic distinctions with dialects in India and shows lexical similarities with Awadhi and Buksa as well.
[3][4] In terms of linguistic features, Rana Tharu follows the SOV (Subject-Object-Verb) word order, uses postpositions, and has noun head final structure.
It has two genders, employs content question words in situ, and involves a combination of prefixes and suffixes in its morphology.
Additionally, it features passives and voice, lacks tonality, and possesses a phonetic inventory of 28 consonant and 11 vowel phonemes.