Benchmarking Linguistic Adaptation in Comparable-Sized LLMs: A Study of Llama-3.1-8B, Mistral-7B-v0.1, and Qwen3-8B on Romanized Nepali

Ananda Rimal, Adarsha Rimal

Romanized Nepali, the Nepali language written in the Latin alphabet, is the dominant medium for informal digital communication in Nepal, yet it remains critically underresourced in…