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Additional official languages include Gurung, Limbu, Magar, Sunuwar, Newar, Rai, Sherpa and Tamang for the purpose of preservation of culture and tradition in the state. Nepali is the lingua franca of Sikkim, while Sikkimese (Bhutia) and Lepcha are spoken in certain areas. [14] English is also spoken and understood in most of Sikkim.
Sikkim ༄༅།ཁམས་གསུམ་དབང་འདུས [4] Tibetan: Kham-sum-wangdu: Conqueror of the three worlds: Tamil Nadu: வாய்மையே வெல்லும் [5] Tamil: Vāymaiyē vellum: Truth alone triumphs: Telangana: सत्यमेव जयते Sanskrit: Satyameva Jayate: Tripura ...
Relating to the Indian state of Sikkim; Sikkimese language, one of the Southern Tibetic languages; Sikkimese people, the Indian peoples who inhabit the Indian state of Sikkim; Native Sikkimese, the indigenous peoples of Sikkim
The Lepcha and Limbu is the earliest ethnic group to have settled in Sikkim.The word Sikkim was derived from "Sukhim" in Limbu language meaning new palace. They believe they are the autochthones while others considered that they were settled by the thirteenth century, coming from the hills before the arrival of the Tibetan Bhutias. [5]
Sikkim (/ ˈ s ɪ k ɪ m / SIK-im; Nepali:) is a state in northeastern India. It borders the Tibet Autonomous Region of China in the north and northeast, Bhutan in the east, Koshi Province of Nepal in the west, and West Bengal in the south. Sikkim is also close to the Siliguri Corridor, which borders Bangladesh.
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The Kingdom of Sikkim (Classical Tibetan and Sikkimese: འབྲས་ལྗོངས།, Drenjong, Dzongkha: སི་ཀིམ་རྒྱལ་ཁབ།, Sikimr Gyalkhab) officially Dremoshong (Classical Tibetan and Sikkimese: འབྲས་མོ་གཤོངས།) until the 1800s, was a hereditary monarchy in the Eastern Himalayas which existed from 1642 to 16 May 1975, when it was ...