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	Limbu - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		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 who are believed to be the descendants of the ancient Mongolian people and are still known as "Mongolians" in Nepal.
		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.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Limbu (591 words)

	SHAPE News: Hero returns for another Afghanistan tour
		Limbu and five of the U.S. instructors were the closest coalition forces to the contact, they knew they had to help and so they jumped into their Landcruisers and dashed off to provide support.
		Limbu realised that more cover was needed to ensure the officer's safety; again with no thought for his own health, he asked one of the U.S instructors to put down cover fire.
		Limbu then reengaged himself in the firefight, conscious of the fact that he alone had a night sight and had a role to play in directing the fire down onto the enemy.
	www.nato.int /shape/news/2005/04/i050412b.htm (580 words)

	Nepal Federation of Indigenous Nationalities (NEFIN) - Limbu (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The population of the Limbus, according to the census of 2001, is 359,255.
		According to the population census of 2001, the population of Limbus is 359,379.
		Limbus have deep allegiance towards a sacred grass cynodon dactylon and stone and witnesses involved in the process of adjudication according to Limbu practices are cross-examined by asking them to take oath by touching dubo (cynodon dactylon) and stone (Subba, 1998:42).
	www.nefin.org.np /index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=45&Itemid=42 (814 words)

	Limbu language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Limbu is a Tibeto-Burman spoken in Nepal, Sikkim and Darjeeling district, West Bengal, India, by the Limbu community.
		Limbus refer to themselves as yakthung, and their language as Yakthung Pan.
		Far more Limbus are literate in Nepali than in Limbu, and so many Limbu publications will be accompanied by a Nepali version.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Limbu_language (113 words)

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		Limbu language is one of the major spoken and written languages of Nepal.
		Limbus usually address with the teknonymy of son-in-law (Pangmi) or daughter-in-law (Pangli) to any young man or woman who is not close relatives and Kungba (common teknonym for sister's husband, wife's brothers) or Somit (similar teknoym for female) for adults.
		Limbu is an ethnic group of Mongoloid physiognomy inhabiting the area from the east of Arun river to the eastern border of present Nepal, popularly known as Limbuwan specially after the annexation of the part of Kirant land into Nepal in 1774.
	members.fortunecity.com /dharantimes/limbu.htm (1916 words)

	Limbu - TheBestLinks.com - Bhutan, Hinduism, West Bengal, Tibetan, ...
		The Limbu (meaning: archer) ethnic group belong to the Kiranti group or Kirat confederation that includes the Rai and Sunuwar ethnic groups.
		Their population of 400,000 is centered on the districts of Sankhuwasabha, Tehrathum, Dhankuta, Taplejung, Panchthar and Ilam, all within the district of Mechi in Nepal, Sikkim, and a smaller number in the township of Darjeeling in West Bengal and Bhutan.
		Women are quite influential within the Limbu families, particularly when their husbands are away from home serving in the army.
	www.thebestlinks.com /Limbu.html (351 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)

	Washingtonpost.com: Live Online
		Limbu, a Nepalese reporter, is currently a feature writer with the English language weekly, The Nepali Times.
		Sapana Sakya and Ramyata Limbu: While we were at Everest in Spring 2000, there was a cleaning expedition on the mountain as well and I believe they had cleared most of the oxygen canisters, I'm not sure if they've all been cleared.
		Sapana Sakya and Ramyata Limbu: The political cllimate in Nepal is still very fragile, although there is a ceasefire and talks are going on between the Maoists and the government.
	discuss.washingtonpost.com /zforum/03/r_tv_frontline052903.htm (1808 words)

	webindia123.com-people of sikkim-The Limbu tribe-The Rai-Magar-The Gurang
		Limbu is a branch of the Kirati tribe.
		They have a tradition of inter marriage with other tribes particularly with the Lepchas and in certain respects their habits are similar to those of the Lepchas.
		Limbu marriage is often conducted without the consent of the parents.
	www.webindia123.com /sikkim/people/people2.htm (342 words)

	MS Nepal - Development Through Partnership (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Since its inception, it is dedicated to the promotion and preservation of the Limbu Language and culture; the upliftment of the socioeconomic and educational condition of the Limbus; the consolidation communal harmony among the various communities; and the protection and promotion of human rights and indigenous peoples rights.
		The Limbus, a section of Kirat, are indigenous people of Eastern Nepal with distinct cultural identity of their own, which are at the verge of being wiped out in future, if not preserved now.
		Sirijonga who died for the cause of promotion and preservation of Limbu language and script, ad award has been instituted in the memory of him for those who contribute for the promotion of Limbu language, literature and research studies on Limbu history, religion and culture.
	msnepal.org /partners/kyc (797 words)

	Trafford Publishing: Fragile Mountains (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The Limbu are descendants of an ancient race called the Kirata, a people of Mongoloid stock who arrived and settled in the foothills of the Himalayas over two thousand years ago.
		When the Roman Empire was at the zenith of its power in Europe, the Kiratas were ruling vast swaths of the mountainous land in the Himalayas from their capital in Kathmandu valley.
		Limbu men as a tradition join the British Brigade of Gurkhas and upon retirement settle in the cities.
	www.trafford.com /4dcgi/robots/05-0078.html (653 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)

	decodeunicode.org . Unicode Blocks . Limbu
		Limbu is an abugida, which means that in this script every consonant has an inherent vowel that is always there unless the consonant gets modified with a vowel sign.
		Since Te-Ongsi\'s death, it was often difficult to use the Limbu script because, as an expression of cultural identity, it was taken as a threat against the unity of the country by the ruling social elites.
		Common Limbu is known as Tajengpan, the priestly high language as as Mundumban.
	www.decodeunicode.org /w3.php?viewMode=block&ucHex=1900 (345 words)

	Limbu (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Limbu is the largest of all Kiranti languages and a major regional language of eastern Nepal.
		Tej Mān Āṅgdembe is a native speaker of the Pancthare dialect of Limbu.
		'Limbu kinship terminology: a description', Kailash, Journal of Himalayan Studies, XII (1-2): 115-156.
	www.iias.nl /host/himalaya/projects/limbu.html (78 words)

	UA: NEPAL / Respond to an Urgent Action appeal now / Urgent Actions / Home Page - Amnesty International Irish Section (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Dinesh Limbu was seen on 13 May being taken away from the Central Jail in Kathmandu in a police van.
		Dinesh Limbu, who was arrested by plainclothes security forces personnel on 24 August 2004, was seen on 13 May being taken away from the Central Jail in Kathmandu in a government-registered police van.
		Dinesh Limbu was brought out of the jail at 3.40pm and taken away in the van in the presence of a number of delegates from several local human rights organisations who were present to ensure his safe release.
	www.amnesty.ie /content/view/full/3840 (976 words)

	Ethnologue 14 report for language code:LIF
		Limbuwan (preferred term for the Limbu area), Eastern hills, east of the Arun River; Koshi Zone, Dhankuta, Sankhuwasabha, Tehrathum, Dhankuta, and Morang districts; Mechi Zone, Taplejung, Panchthar, Ilam, and Jhapa districts.
		Limbu used in home, with other Limbu of all ages, in worship.
		It would be easier to read Limbu in Devanagari, but attitudes strongly positive toward Sirijannga script being taught.
	www.ethnologue.com /14/show_language.asp?code=LIF (321 words)

	HIMAL SOUTH ASIAN \| November 2002 \| Review \| The ethnographic draughtsman
		There is of course the fact that it is set within Limbu culture and community (one of the non-Indo Aryan groups of Nepal), and while the predominant language used in the film is Nepali, Limbu bhasa is interspersed throughout via various characters.
		Written and produced by Nabin Subba, a Kathmandu filmmaker, the film Numafung is situated within a Limbu community in easternmost Nepal and centers around the life of the older of two daughters (Numafung, “beautiful flower”) of a poor Limbu farming couple in a non-descript rural village.
		Feminist battles for Limbunis (Limbu women) would not need to fight notions of sexuality that underlie prohibitions against widow-remarriage; in that sense, rethinking the struggle against patriarchy as struggles against the ‘multiple patriarchies’ in existence within Nepal may be a more profitable strategy for feminists in Nepal.
	www.himalmag.com /2002/november/review.htm (2030 words)

	Unicode Limbu Font Support from XenoType Technologies
		The Limbu script is used to write Limbu, a minority language spoken predominantly in Nepal and parts of India.
		There are several Limbu fonts available on the Internet but our support includes a new font, designed from scratch to match the overall look and feel of the base font provided in most of our products while still maintaining the unique characteristics of the script.
		We wholeheartedly support this effort, spearheaded by native Limbus, and have committed to providing our Limbu Language Kit at no cost to any person or organization with the same goals in mind (contact us here to find out if you qualify).
	www.xenotypetech.com /osxLimbu.html (210 words)

	UNESCO \| Education - Learning in our own language: Kirat Yakthung Chumlung develop a Limbu literacy program in Nepal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Although the right for children to learn in their mother tongue had been acknowledged for the first time in Nepal's 1990 constitution, lack of political commitment and financial support made it very difficult for groups like the Limbus of Eastern nepal to make this a reality.
		This study focuses on the experiences of a Limbu community in a village called Rajghat, and documents the difficult process of starting up a mother tongue literacy programme.
		The Kirat Yakhthung Chumlung NGO (KYC) has acknowledged here that for many indigineous people, education is only one part of their difficult struggle for equality - but a very important starting point.
	portal.unesco.org /education/en/ev.php-URL_ID=30582&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html (186 words)

	Bairagi Kainla: Personalities of Literature from Nepal
		During his stay in Ilam, he requested my father to bring out a publication on the Limbu language in the Devanagiri, Nepali script, which I think is the first Limbu lyrical poetry to be published.
		He knew this was possible through a movement and consequently, initiated action to form a society that would support the research, translation, and publishing of the Limbu language.
		Fortunately, we were able to develop the Limbu script on computer through the help of Karun Thapa, a font development expert.
	www.spinybabbler.org /literature/personalities/bairagi_kainla.htm (2749 words)

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		The Limbu are characterised as an innocent and naive people, in stark contrast to the Brahmins who are portrayed as cheats or otherwise dishonest in their dealings.
		The most important point he missed was that in their nefarious acts of depriving land from agriculturists, the two brothers were competing mightily for economic and social advantage.
		Any trouble, whether between two Limbus or between a Bahun and a Limbu, was taken as an excuse by each to try and out-do the other.
	www.himalmag.com /96may/deviant.htm (1439 words)

	The South Atlantic Medal Association 82 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Budhaparsad Limbu was born in the village of Sakhewa in the eastern hills of Nepal on 25 October 1958.
		On the 24 June 1982 Lance Corporal Limbu was ordered, along with members of his adopted Rifle Company (D Company) to fill in the Argentine trenches surrounding Goose Green.
		The inhabitants of Goose Green felt that he had died for them, and would have honoured his grave as a permanent reminder of his sacrifice to future generations of villagers, but his father, as was his right, asked for the body to be removed from the Falkland Islands and re-interred in the Aldershot Military Cemetery.
	www.sama82.org.uk /garden/2/5/4/home.htm (283 words)

	Nepal: Open Letter on "disappearances"
		Raj Kumar Lumbu (also known as Raju), age 37, and his brother, Madan Limbu, age 48, were arrested by five security forces personnel in plain clothes on 18 April 2004 in Kumarigal, Kathmandu.
		There are concerns for the health of Raj Kumar Limbu who has been receiving medical treatment for a long-term health problem.
		The arrest of Raj Kumar Limbu, Madan Limbu and Padamhari Paudel has been reported to the NHRC and to local human rights organizations which are making inquiries on their behalf with the Prime Minister, Defence and Home Ministries and the Royal Nepal Army (RNA) human rights cell.
	www.amnestyusa.org /regions/asia/document.do?id=52A64A554F23CF7780256E8C00529615 (761 words)

	Cayman Net News: Person of the Day
		Coming from Nepal, known as the ‘Roof of the World’, Deauraj Limbu served in the British Army for 19 years in the Gurkha tradition, where Nepalese soldiers have fought for the United Kingdom for 200 years.
		Mr Limbu has worked as a security guard at the Glass House for two and half years.
		Although Ivan was his first hurricane, Mr Limbu lived through typhoons in both Hong Kong and Brunei.
	www.caymannetnews.com /2005/02/784/person.shtml (157 words)

	The Telegraph - Calcutta : North Bengal & Sikkim (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Barnesbeg Tea Estate (Darjeeling), Feb. 10: Laxmi Limbu has once again proved that women have made their foray into uncharted territories.
		From supervising plantation work to negotiating workers’ problems, Limbu, the only female planter in Darjeeling hills, is always at her best.
		It felt great to work with people who have set new standards in corporate responsibility,” said Limbu, who bagged a gold medal in the tea management course she had done.
	www.telegraphindia.com /1060211/asp/siliguri/story_5822416.asp (371 words)

	eKantipur.com - Nepal's No.1 News Portal
		Kendra Limbu and Shekhar Limbu scored a goal each in front of very small home crowd in a dour match.
		Dharan took the lead in the 37th minute after striker Kendra Limbu dribbled past three defenders and slotted home a 1-0 lead with a perfect chip over advancing Morang goalie Hussain.
		Hussain was to blame for the second Dharan goal as he allowed a 25-yard drive from Shekhar Limbu to travel inside his own nets in the 52nd minute.
	www.kantipuronline.com /sports.php?&nid=66942 (182 words)

	eKantipur.com - Nepal's No.1 News Portal
		DHARAN, Sunsari, Feb 7 - Despite being a cataleptic patient, 28-year-old Ram Prasad Limbu is actively involved in working in a library here in Dharan.
		Limbu can be found busy arranging and keeping records of books - issued and returned - at Sunaulo Library in Dharan Municipality-17, Saptarangi Marg.
		"After having my brunch, I return to the library at 1:00 pm," says he.The library has appointed Limbu as its librarian considering his willingness to do social work despite his physical state.
	www.kantipuronline.com /kolnews.php?&nid=30690 (298 words)

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