Limbu

Facts

  • Language: Limbu
  • Alternate names: Yakthung Pan, Limbo, Lumbu, Tsong, Chang, Monpa, Subah, Suffah. Yakthūngbā
  • Language code: lif
  • Language family: Sino-Tibetan, Tibeto-Burman, Western Tibeto-Burman, Himalayan, Kiranti, Eastern (SIL classification)
  • Number of speakers: 300,000
  • Vulnerability: Threatened
  • Script: Devanagari script, primary usage. Limbu (Kiranti, Sirijonga) script, dating to early 18th century.

More information:

    Priestly high language, known by some older people and priests, is called Mundumban. Traditional religion, Christian.

    Limbu is spoken in India, Nepal, South Asia.