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The Nepali language song Jahan Bagcha Teesta Rangeet was released 4 April 1970 to mark the birthday of the then Chogyal Palden Thondup Namgyal. The song became very popular and was sometimes erroneously cited as the Sikkimese national anthem. [2] Following a referendum in 1975, Sikkim became a state of India and the monarchy was abolished. The ...
Denjongke or Sikkimese is a language indigenous to sikkim, Denjongke itself means language of sikkim. The language has been called sikkimese for a long time, more importantly, it is still called sikkimese within the community. When government websites still refer to our language as Sikkimese(bhutia), I don't see how any person would find the ...
Sikkimese may refer to: 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
If you want, you can request a name change RfC at Talk:Sikkimese language. If the RfC is in favor of the change "Sikkimese language → Bhutia Language", then only it can be changed throughout Wikipedia, at which point the new name will be the common name. Obviously, common name depends on the most common usage in English language reliable sources.
Bhutia (Tibetan: འབྲས་ལྗོངས་སྐད་, Wylie: 'bras ljongs skad, THL: dren jong ké, Tibetan pronunciation: [ɖɛ̀n dʑòŋ ké]; "rice valley language") [2] is a language of the Tibeto-Burman languages spoken by the Bhutia people in Sikkim in northeast India, parts of Koshi province in eastern Nepal, and Bhutan. It is ...
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Sikkim is a multi-ethnic society inhabited by different ethnic communities belonging to different racial and linguistic groups. The Anthropological Survey of India has identified 21 communities in Sikkim and more than 13 different languages belonging to different linguistic stock are spoken in the state.
The Limbu script or Sirijanga script was devised during the period of Buddhist expansion in Sikkim in the early 18th century when Limbuwan still constituted part of Sikkimese territory. [13] The Limbu script was probably designed roughly at the same time as the Lepcha script (during the reign of the third King of Sikkim , Phyag-dor Nam-gyal (ca ...