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	Limbu - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The Limbu (meaning: archer) or Yakthumba are an ethnic group that belong to the Kiranti group or Kirat confederation that includes the Rai and Sunuwar.
		Limbu clans are divided between the Lhasa gorta (those from Lhasa) and Kashi gorta, those who come from the Benaras.
		A sizable number of Limbu youths used to enlist in the British and Indian Gurkha armies, providing their families with a steady stream of income.
	www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Limbu (595 words)

	Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : Runic alphabet (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The Runic alphabets are a set of related alphabets using letters known as runes, formerly used to write Germanic languages, mainly in Scandinavia and the British Isles.
		The Old Italic alphabet is usually quoted as a candidate for the origin of the runes.
		The letters of the Gothic alphabet, however, as given by the Alcuin manuscript (9th century), are obviously related to the names of the Futhark.
	www.hallencyclopedia.com /Runic_alphabet (3241 words)

	limbu - Article and Reference from OnPedia.com
		Their population of 400,000 is centered on the districts of Sankhuwasabha, Tehrathum, Dhankuta, Taplejung, Panchthar and Ilam, all within the zone of Mechi in Nepal, Sikkim, and a smaller number in the cities of Darjeeling and Kalimpong in West Bengal, India and in Bhutan.
		The prevalence of the latter practice meant that the key ceremonies of a Limbu wedding take place in the bridegroom's house rather than that of the bride's - the irate family members of a girl who eloped would not exactly be in a celebratory mood.
		Women are quite influential within the Limbu families, particularly when their husbands are away from home serving in the British and Indian army.
	www.onpedia.com /encyclopedia/Limbu (401 words)

	Limbu script - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Limbu alphabet, or Kirat-Sirijonga script, is a Brahmic script used to write the Limbu language of northern India and Nepal.
		According to traditional histories, it was first invented in the late 9th century by the king Sirijonga Hang, then fell out of use, to be reintroduced in the 18th century by Te-ongsi Sirijonga (1704-1741?).
		This Sirijonga, who was believed to be the reincarnation of the first, was apparently martyred in 1741 (or 1743) for the sake of this script by the Sikkim Lamas, who tied him to a tree and flung poison arrows at him.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Limbu_alphabet (416 words)

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		The alphabet encoded in the Early Phoenician block represents Phoenician as it stabilized by about 1100-1050 BC, as well as several early scripts that are quite closely related, though they are used to write a number of languages.
		The Runic alphabet for a given language and locale is commonly referred to as the futhark, a name derived from its first six letters.
		These alphabets and their glyphic variants are considered here to be built from elements of a single larger Runic script.
	www.unicode.org /Public/TEXT/UTR-3.TXT (12590 words)

	Manipuri alphabet (Meetei Mayek)
		The origins of the Manipuri alphabet, or Meetei Mayek as it is know in Manipuri, are shrouded in mystery as many historical documents were destroyed at the beginning of the 18th century during the reign of King Pamheiba.
		Some believe the alphabet has been used for almost 4,000 years, while others think it developed from the Bengali alphabet during the 17th century.
		Between 1709 and the middle of the 20th century, the Manipuri language was written with the Bengali alphabet.
	www.omniglot.com /writing/manipuri.htm (263 words)

	Encyclopedia of Cultures in Tibet and Himalayas
		The Limbu are the second most numerous tribe of the indigenous Kiranti group, and live along the easternmost section of the Himalayas between the Arun River in Nepal and the border of Sikkim state, India.
		According to the 2001 census of Nepal, there are 359,379 ethnic Limbu who account for 1.58% of Nepal's total population, of whom 333,633 speak the Limbu language as a mother tongue.
		Limbu villages are found 2,500 to 4,000 feet (800 to 1,200 m) above sea level and consist of 30–100 stone houses surrounded by dry-cultivated fields.
	www.thdl.org /xml/showEssay.php?xml=/collections/cultgeo/cultures/index.xml&l=d1e880 (3076 words)

	Limbu Language - MavicaNET (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		A description of Limbu kinship terminology appeared in volume 12 of Kailash, Journal of Himalayan Studies (1985), and a study in Limbu verbal aspect appeared in Volume 148 of Linguistische Berichte (Dezember 1993, S. A revamped analysis of Limbu verbal morphology by the same author has been submitted for publication.
		Limbu is a member of the Eastern Kiranti branch of the Tibeto-Burman language family.
		The Limbu or Kirat alphabet was probably modelled on the Lepcha alphabet, which is thought to have derived from the Tibetan alphabet.
	www.mavicanet.com /directory/pol/30857.html (272 words)

	Limbu alphabet and language
		The Limbu, Kirat or Sirijonga alphabet was probably modelled on the Lepcha alphabet, which is thought to have derived from the Tibetan alphabet.
		In 1925, Iman Singh Chemjong, a Limbu scholar, named the script after Sirijonga who had laid down his life for the preservation and promotion of script in 1743.
		Limbu is a syllabic alphabet - each letter has an inherent vowel /a/.
	www.omniglot.com /writing/limbu.htm (151 words)

	Dungan Script and Chinese Language Reform
		The SD alphabet was devised at a conference convened for that purpose on May 27, 1953 in Frunze, Kirghizia (Kalimov, p.
		What is absolutely crucial, however, is the rich experience gained by the users of the SD alphabet with regard to the problems of word boundaries, hyphenation, tones, stress, homonyms, proper names, and all the other bugaboos that confront those who wish to provide MSM with an alternative alphabetical script.
		One of the plainest divergences between alphabetic SD and tetragraphic: MSM is the operation of etymology.
	www.pinyin.info /readings/texts/dungan.html (8356 words)

	Limbu - Test for Unicode support in Web browsers
		The Limbu range was introduced with version 4.0 of the Unicode Standard, and is located in Plane 0, the Basic Multilingual Plane.
		The Limbu script (also known as Kirant, Kiranti, Kirat and Sirijonga) is a syllabic alphabet used for the Limbu language, which belongs to the East Himalayish group and is used by some people in eastern Nepal and in the adjoining Indian states of Sikkim and West Bengal.
		The characters that appear in the “Character” columns of the following table depend on the browser that you are using, the fonts installed on your computer, and the browser options you have chosen that determine the fonts used to display particular character sets, encodings or languages.
	www.alanwood.net /unicode/limbu.html (287 words)

	All Information of Communities of Eurytania (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The Limbu (meaning: archer) or Yakthumba are an ethnic group that belong to the Kirant i group or Kirat confederation that includes the Rai (ethnic group) and Sunuwar.
		It uses the Limbu alphabet script based on the Tibetan language alphabet.
		However, like the Rai (ethnic group), their religion is influenced by both Hinduism and Tibetan Buddhism, although the Buddhist influence is more apparent in the case of the Limbu than with the Rai.
	en_tanezrouft.en.xvip.org (9605 words)

	[UEB Linguistics] Many-to-one Unicode mappings
		What the Unicode Consortium did to make things a little easier for everybody was to start an alphabet or what the standard calls a block of characters with an even number.
		Thus, braille is encoded in the standard and begins at utf 2800 through 28ff., The Cyrillic alphabet from Hex 0400-04FF.
		My choice of braille as an example is an unfortunate one, because practically no one would ever write in it, as braille is mapped onto the basic ascii character set.
	www.nbp.org /pipermail/ueblinguistics/2005-June/000087.html (1293 words)

	Sites on Scripts and Writing Systems
		Alphabets of the World “This site is dedicated to showing and explaining the many scripts and alphabets of the world.” The site is oriented to orthographies of individual languages.
		Hebrew Alphabet A useful overview of Hebrew consonants, with information on differences between ancient, modern Israeli and Ashkenazi varieties for the names of characters and sounds they reprensent.
		Characters needed for the transcription of Old Norse primary sources This page is primarily intended to document encoding of Old Norse characters in documents that use TEI (Text Encoding Initiative) markup, but it has some useful discussion about the characters and their historical development.
	scripts.sil.org /SitesOnScriptsAndWSs (3635 words)

	Evertype
		The First shewing when, and by whom Letters were invented; the Formation of the Alphabets of various Nations; their Manner of Writing, on what Materials, and with what Instruments Men have written in different Ages to the present Time.
		Sounds and their relations: a complete manual of universal alphabetics, illustrated by means of Visible Speech and exhibiting the pronunciation of English, in various styles, and of other languages and dialects.
		Kelly, J. "The 1847 alphabet: an episode of Phonotypy", in R. Asher and J. Henderson, Towards a history of phonetics, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
	www.evertype.com /scriptbib.html (2882 words)

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		The latter was the daughter of the Limbu chief Yo Yo-Hang.
		The chief's daughter brought with her seven girls who were later on married into important families of Sikkim.
		He commanded that the second of every three sons of Bhutia family must be ordained a monk of the Pemiongchi Monastery, which was also open to the Tsongs.
	sikkim.freeservers.com (3611 words)

	Sino-Tibetan Languages
		The characters in this system, unlike letters in an alphabet, are not related to the sound of a word, but rather to its meaning.
		Early linguists, noting structural similarities and shared vocabulary between Chinese and languages of mainland Southeast Asia, assumed that Chinese and such languages as Thai, Lao, Vietnamese, and Miao-Yao (a small group of languages spoken in southern China, northern Laos, Thailand, and Vietnam) had all descended from the same language.
		The closest relatives of Tibetan are Bodic languages spoken in Nepal such as Tamang and Gurung, and several languages spoken in small communities in northwestern India.
	autocww.colorado.edu /~blackmon/E64ContentFiles/LinguisticsAndLanguages/SinoTibetanLanguages.html (1006 words)

	Search OLAC Archives - Tibetan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
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		An older man interviews a younger one about the Limbu custom of "paddy dancing".
		description: Narrative in Limbu concerning the "theft" of a (consenting) married woman, and how the legitimate husband obtains compensation from the adulterer.
	www.language-archives.org /tools/search/?query=Tibetan (361 words)

	Devanagari - Crystalinks
		'of the city') or Devana¯gari¯ ('divine Nagari') alphabet descended from the Brahmi script sometime around the 11th century AD.
		It was originally developed to write Sanksrit but was later adapted to write many other languages.
		This feature is common to most of the alphabets of South and South East Asia.
	www.crystalinks.com /devanagari.html (297 words)

	Ethnographic Arms & Armour - View Single Post - ORIGIN AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE KUKRI
		Also many mercenary troops for the Greeks used the Kopis as well, such as the Dii tribesman (modern Bulgaria) and the Etruscians (Northern Italy, whose alphabet is based on the Greek alphabet, due to the heavy Greek colonisation of that area).
		Another possible name for the Kopis that you might hear of is the Machaira, which in Greek refers to Knife types where as the word Kopis (pronounced Gopis) refers to clever type weapons and is a more accurate terminology.
		The main weapon of the Ruling warrior high caste (Ksatriya which refers to the warrior caste, these days they are referred to as the Chettri in Nepal) Nepalese warfare was the Talwar (although Nepal does not have an official National Sword, if there was going to be one, the Talwar would be it).
	www.vikingsword.com /vb/showpost.php?p=7653&postcount=1 (639 words)

	Bibliographic Standards:UKMARC Manual
		Where one spoken language is written in two different sets of characters, both languages have been included in the list but only one code has been assigned.
		For example, Serbian and Croatian are the same spoken language, but the former is written in the Cyrillic alphabet and the latter in the Latin alphabet.
		Language codes are arranged in two alphabetical sequences, by language and by language code.
	www.bl.uk /services/bibliographic/marc/marcappbl.html (369 words)

	Unicode and multilingual support in HTML, fonts, Web browsers and other applications
		Problems like these arise with non-Latin alphabets and Symbol fonts because until recently most computers used fonts that contain a maximum of 256 characters.
		Older English versions of Microsoft Windows, and several other language editions, used this set of 256 characters, which is known as the ANSI character set.
		The solution is to leave behind the assortment of 8-bit fonts with their limit of 256 characters, where the same character number can represent a different character in different alphabets, and move to a system that assigns a unique number to each character in each of the major languages of the world.
	www.alanwood.net /unicode/index.html (929 words)

	Ethnologue: China
		2 alphabetic scripts are used: 'Totham' in the Xishuangbanna area, and 'Tolek' in the region from Dehong to Lincang.
		A Roman alphabet was developed in the 1950's and revised in 1984.
		It had a Pinyin (Roman) alphabet in China; a new Arabic script was introduced in 1987.
	www.cic.sfu.ca /nacc/articles/minority.html (13187 words)

	Shan - Ethnos - Books about the Shan People
		The Shan language is part of the Tai languages group of the Tai-Kadai language family, and is related to Thai and Lao.
		The southern Shan use an alphabet based on the Burmese alphabet.
		The Shan dwell mostly on the plains of the Shan Plateau, which is drained by the Salween River.
	www.almudo.com /ethnos/Shan.htm (245 words)

	Krishna Sunuwar - personal home page. expertise in web site design and application development. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		In 18th anniversary and AGM of Sunuwar Welfare Society, Tikaram Mulicha Sunuwar has shown sunuwari fonts.
		According to Mulicha, there are 22 alphabet and 10 numerical letter for sunuwari (Devanagari has got 36 and English 26 alphabet)
		Sunuwari languages categorised as Tibeto-Berman Language, and sunuwars are recognized as indigenous people as Rai, Limbu etc.
	www.krishnasunuwar.com.np (179 words)

	Limbu - Ethnos - Books about the Limbu People
		Limbu - Ethnos - Books about the Limbu People
		The Himalayan Women: A Study of Limbu Women in Marriage and Divorce
		Concise Limbu grammar and dictionary: Concise Limbu grammar, nominal paradigms and verbal paradigms, concise Limbu-English dictionary, English-Limbu vocabulary
	www.almudo.com /ethnos/Limbu.htm (291 words)

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