Is Newari a classifier language?

In a paper presented at the 1972 International Congress of Linguists in Bologna, an attempt was made by Joseph Greenberg to determine the conditions under which anon-classifier language might become a classifier language. In approaching this question, Greenberg was obliged to raise the prior question as to the definition of the linguistic type to which we refer "classifier language." His study was based on over 100 different classifier languages from all over the world, but no mention was made of Newari