Product Overview
Limbu New Testament (Limbu Script)
Limbu 2009 Edition (LIFWBT)
Nepal
- Paperback: 372 pages
- Publisher: Digital Bible Society (June 29, 2017) / Wycliffe Bible Translators
- Language: Limbu
- ISBN-10: 1531303811
- ISBN-13: 978-1531303815
- Product Dimensions: 6 x 0.9 x 9 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
Limbu is a Sino-Tibetan language spoken by the Limbu people of eastern Nepal and India(particularly Darjeeling, Kalimpong, Sikkim, Assam and Nagaland) as well as expatriate communities in Bhutan, Burma, Thailand, the United Kingdom, Hong Kong, Canada and the US. The Limbu refer to themselves as Yakthung and their language as Yakthungpan.Yakthungpan has four main dialects: Phedape, Chhathare, Tambarkhole and Panthare dialects.
| Limbu, ᤕᤠᤰᤌᤢᤱ | |
|---|---|
| ᤕᤠᤰᤌᤢᤱ ᤐᤠᤴ yakthung pān |
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| Region | Nepal; significant communities in Bhutan; Sikkim and Darjeeling district of India |
| Ethnicity | Limbu people |
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Native speakers
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380,000 (2011 census) |
Sino-Tibetan
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| Dialects |
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| Limbu script | |
| Official status | |
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Official language in
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Sikkim, India |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | lif |
| Glottolog | limb1266 |
