ISO 639-3 · liflif
Sino-Tibetan family
Limbu
Limbu is a language of the Kiranti branch (Sino-Tibetan), spoken in India and Nepal. Wikidata counts 40,835 first-language speakers (2011). Wikidata describes it as “Sino-Tibetan language of eastern Nepal and India”.
At a glance
- ISO 639-3
lif- Glottocode
limb1266- Family
- Sino-Tibetan
- EGIDS
- 5 Developing
- UNESCO
- Definitely endangered
- Wikipedia
- 41 language editions
40,835first-language speakers
—second-language speakers
2countries
2scripts
4levels in the tree
5EGIDS level
Facts
| Name | Limbu |
|---|---|
| Also called | Limbu language |
| L1 speakers | 40,835 (2011) |
| All speakers | 420,000 (2001) |
| Written in | Limbu script, Devanagari |
| Grammatical cases | 1 listed in Wikidata |
Vitality
EGIDS 5 Developing5
Stable. Spoken by all generations at home, with or without schooling — EGIDS 5 and 6a.
Other languages at this levelUNESCO: Definitely endangered
Languages at this levelfamily tree
From Sino-Tibetan to Limbu
The branches above Limbu, top to bottom. Each node counts the languages of this index that belong to it.
where it is spoken
Countries
Also spoken in India
engEnglishIndo-European · 1.13 bn0 · InternationalhinHindiIndo-European · 615.3 m1 · NationalfraFrenchIndo-European · 285.4 m0 · InternationalporPortugueseIndo-European · 227.3 m1 · NationalurdUrduunclassified · 162.6 m1 · NationalpanPunjabiunclassified · 125 mSafebenBanglaIndo-European · 106 m1 · NationaltamTamilDravidian · 83 m2 · ProvincialmarMarathiunclassified · 77 m2 · ProvincialbhoBhojpuriIndo-European · 52.2 m4 · Educational