Limbu Script (Sirijonga)

Traditional script of the Limbu people of the eastern Himalayas. Used for traditional cultural documents in Sikkim and Limbuwaan (Darjeeling area of northeastern India). Buddhist and Hindu texts were recorded in this script under the patronage of the Sikkim kingdom in the 18th century. Limbu (Yakthungba) belongs to the Tibeto-Burman family with ~400,000 speakers. Active educational movements in Nepal preserve the Limbu script; added to Unicode in 2004.