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Districts where Limbu is recorded
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Devanagari — used for Nepali, Maithili, Tamang, Magar and most languages of Nepal.
Devanagari · देवनागरी
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Devanagari देवनागरी
क ख ग घ ङ च छ ज झ ञ ट ठ ड ढ ण त
Nepali, Maithili, Tamang, Magar and most languages of Nepal
Newa (Nepal Lipi) 𑐣𑐾𑐥𑐵𑐮𑐺𑐥𑐨
𑐎 𑐏 𑐐 𑐑 𑐒 𑐓 𑐔 𑐕 𑐖 𑐗 𑐘 𑐙 𑐚 𑐛 𑐜 𑐝
Nepal Bhasa / Newar of the Kathmandu Valley
Tirhuta (Mithilakshar) 𑒞𑒱𑒩𑒯𑒳𑒞𑒰
𑒏 𑒐 𑒑 𑒒 𑒓 𑒔 𑒕 𑒖 𑒗 𑒘 𑒙 𑒚 𑒛 𑒜 𑒝 𑒞
Maithili of the Mithila plains
Tibetan (Uchen) བོད་ཡིག
ཀ ཁ ག གྷ ང ཅ ཆ ཇ ཇྷ ཉ ཊ ཋ ཌ ཌྷ ཎ ཏ
Sherpa, Lhowa, Tibetan, Yolmo and Himalayan Buddhist languages
Sirijanga (Limbu) ᤛᤡᤖᤡᤈᤪᤀ
ᤁ ᤂ ᤃ ᤄ ᤅ ᤆ ᤇ ᤈ ᤉ ᤊ ᤋ ᤌ ᤍ ᤎ ᤏ ᤋ
Limbu / Yakthung Pan of the eastern hills
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Hear Limbu — phrases and songs
Everyday phrases
ᤛᤣᤘᤠᤖᤥ
Sewaro
Greetings / respect to you
ᤏᤠ᤺ᤖᤠ ᤏᤡᤱᤛᤠᤱ
Nara ningsang
Good day
ᤁᤣ ᤍᤠᤱᤛᤠ?
Ke dangsa?
How are you?
ᤔᤡᤛᤠ
Misa
Thank you
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Songs and singing traditions
Courtship song
Palam
Sung in call-and-response at Dhan Nach harvest circles.
Chyabrung dance
Ke Ke Ram
Drum-led round dance performed at weddings and Chasok Tangnam.
Stories told here
Oral scripture
Mundhum: the making of the world
Recited by the phedangma, the Mundhum tells of Tagera Ningwaphuma, the supreme knowledge, breathing the first mist into the Himalaya, and of Sawa Yethang, the assembly of ten ancestors who set the laws of land, marriage …
Legend
Sirijanga and the lost letters
Te-ongsi Sirijanga is said to have walked from Sinam to Sikkim carrying palm-leaf alphabets, teaching Limbu children under trees until he was bound and shot with arrows — the script survived in the hands of his pupils.…
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