Yakthung
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Lands
Limbuwan in the eastern hills of Nepal, including Taplejung, Panchthar, Terhathum and Ilam, plus Jhapa, Morang and Sunsari, with communities in Sikkim and Darjeeling, India
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Language
In Nepal's 2021 census, 84.5 percent of Yakthung people reported Limbu as their mother tongue, a language with its own script, Sirijanga.
As of 2021 Source: National Foundation for Development of Indigenous Nationalities, Nepal, लिम्बु (Limbu) (opens in a new tab) Checked Suggest a correction to this fact
Language
In 2021 Nepal's Language Commission recommended Limbu, alongside Maithili, as an official language of Province 1 in eastern Nepal.
As of 2021 Source: Radio Nepal, Language Commission recommends province-wise official languages before government (opens in a new tab) Checked Suggest a correction to this fact
Language
Limbu, the Yakthung language, became an official language of Sikkim, India, in 1981, and its script is encoded in the Unicode Standard.
As of 1981 Source: Unicode Consortium, Chapter 13, South and Central Asia-II (The Unicode Standard, Version 18.0) (opens in a new tab) Checked Suggest a correction to this fact
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