Limbu in India

Speakers

40,835

Type

Location

Limbu in India

Country

Information available

1. Basics

Names

Limbu in India

Size

40,835

2. Status

Status

  • Official country wide language
  • Official regional language
  • Official minority language
  • Recognised community language
  • Unrecognised community language
National language
No
Indigenous language
Yes
Administrative units of the country
NER

3. State

Documentation: materials

Written

  • Extended corpora
  • Annotated corpora
  • Corpus/corpora
  • Materials/corpus
  • Some materials
  • No materials
Digital
Yes
Comments
Limbū-Nepālī-Aṅgrejī śabdakośa = Limbu-Nepali-English dictionary
by Cemjoṅga, Īmāna Siṃha, 1904-1976; Kāim̐lā, Bairāgī, 1938-; Nepāla Prajñā Pratishṭhāna
https://archive.org/details/limbunepaliangre00cemj/page/n15/mode/2up
Limbu (2009) New Testament by Isai Limbu Literature Association Nepal.
https://archive.org/details/LIFDEV_DBS_HS
https://archive.org/search?query=limbu&and%5B%5D=mediatype%3A%22texts%22

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Video

  • Extended corpora
  • Annotated corpora
  • Corpus/corpora
  • Materials/corpus
  • Some materials
  • No materials
Digital
Yes
Comments
https://archive.org/details/jesus-film-limbu-language
https://archive.org/details/14b535d59219a178209cd70212c427e5
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7F7Gr9Xp29s
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/jHj1VxE1it8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6HBm5YXc0Ko
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5jsJz039do
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/zeGOYLkB9go
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/n9A2J6_qMyE
https://globalrecordings.net/en/program/62818
https://globalrecordings.net/en/program/67226
https://globalrecordings.net/en/program/67229
https://globalrecordings.net/en/language/lif

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Audio

  • Extended corpora
  • Annotated corpora
  • Corpus/corpora
  • Materials/corpus
  • Some materials
  • No materials
Digital
Yes
Comments
https://archive.org/details/NayanVariKiranIjamLimbuLyricsAnd MusicKiranIjamLimbuAlbumOJHEL
https://archive.org/details/PardeshilaaiBySabinLimbuMp3
https://archive.org/details/fwshankar_limbu_nepalmandal
https://archive.org/details/RajeshPayalRaialbumAasewarolimbu Songs
https://archive.org/search?query=limbu&and%5B%5D=mediatype%3A%22audio%22
https://globalrecordings.net/en/program/31010
https://globalrecordings.net/en/program/31001
https://globalrecordings.net/en/program/2991
https://globalrecordings.net/en/program/33131
https://globalrecordings.net/en/language/lif

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Documentation: descriptions

  • Elaborated dictionaries, grammars, statistical language models, etc.
  • Dictionaries and grammars
  • Dictionary and grammar
  • Glossary and descriptions
  • Few descriptions
  • No descriptions
Digital
Yes
Comments
1. George van Driem. 1987. A Grammar of Limbu. (Mouton Grammar Library, 4.) Berlin, New York: Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. xxviii+565pp.
2.Alfons Weidert and B. Subba. 1985. Concise Limbu Grammar and Dictionary. Amsterdam: Lobster. 425pp.
3. Govinda Bahadur Tumbahang. 2007. A descriptive grammar of Chhatthare Limbu. Kirtipur, Kathmandu: Social Inclusion Research Fund/SNV Nepal. 375pp. (Also cited as Tumbahang, Govinda Bahadur 2007 A descriptive grammar of Chhatthare Limbu. Ph. D. dissertation, Tribhuvan University).
4. Tumbahang, Govinda Bahadur. 2011. A Grammar of Limbu. Kirtipur: Centre for Nepal and Asian Studies. 360pp.
5. Govinda Bahadur Tumbahang. 2017. A grammar of Chhatthare Limbu. (Languages of the World/Materials, 507.) München: LINCOM. 244pp.
6. P. Perumalsamy. 2009. Limbu. In Sikkim: Part-I, 204-279. Kolkata, India: Language Division Office of the Registrar General & Census Commissioner.
7.Michailovsky, Boyd. 2000. Limbu nous autres and first person morphology. LTBA 24. 113-144.
https://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/limb1266
8. Limbu, Vinay, 2019. Limbus of Darjeeling Himalaya aspects of their economy society and culture in relation to habitat, Centre for Himalayan Studies, University of North Bengal.
https://shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in/simple-search?query=limbu+ language&go=

Standardization

  • Modern standard language
  • Young standard language
  • Standardised language
  • Quasi-standard language
  • Semi-standardised language
  • Un-standardised language

Graphisation & script encoding

  • Standardised writing system with full script encoding
  • Conventionalised writing system with partial script encoding
  • Consistent writing system with no script encoding
  • Unsystematic writing system(s)
  • Limited written use
  • No written use
Comments
The Limbu language has a script, which are called Kiranti, Sirijonga or Sirijanga scripts.

4. Users

Geographical distribution

  • Users live and dominate in all regions of the country
  • Users live in one [state/...] of the country
  • Users live in a cross-border region [state/...] of the country
  • Users live in separated [states/...] of the country
  • Users live dispersed across one [state/...] of the country
  • Users live scattered all over the country

Settlements

  • Rural
  • Urban
Administrative units of the country
Sikkim

Size / Number of users

Number of users

40835
Source
census of India
Year
2011

Users within total population

Generational use

Educational attainment

Primary education

Occupational qualifications

Language competence

Understand some, speak/sign little

Literacy of users

Less than 50% of users with literacy in the language
Source

https://www.census2011.co.in/data/village/297771-mon-bahadur-limbu-assa…

Year
2011

Digital use

5. Use

Socio-geographic dimension

Geographic scope
  • International
  • Supranational
  • Cross-border (states)
  • State-wide
  • Supra-regional cross-border
  • Supra-regional
  • Regional cross-border
  • Regional
  • Local
Source
https://langlex.com/cens/MTProfile.php?mtname=Limbu

Economic dimension

Functional dimension

Functional use in administration

Language use in administration
  • International level
  • National level
  • Regional level
  • Local level
  • Auxiliary use
  • No use

Types of language use

  • signed / spoken use
  • written use
  • digital use

Ethnoculture

  • No use
  • Informal learning
  • Skills and knowledge
  • Performing arts
  • Social practices
  • Customary law
  • Traditional medicine
  • Knowledge and practices
  • Traditions and expressions

Formal Education

Early childhood education
Primary level
Lower secondary level
Higher secondary level
Tertiary level

Public healthcare

Information, communication and cultural production

  • Information services
  • Broadcasting
  • Video, film
  • Sound/music recording
  • Publishing activities
  • Language not used
  • Information services
  • Broadcasting
  • Video, film
  • Sound/music recording
  • Publishing activities
  • Language not used
  • Information services
  • Broadcasting
  • Video, film
  • Sound/music recording
  • Publishing activities
  • Language not used

Legal system

Areas of law the language is used

  • Criminal law
  • Civil law
  • Administrative law

Geographical scope of legal language use

  • Local
  • Regional
  • National
  • International

Completion