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Limbu people

Лимбу · Q2668355

language area per Glottologcensus counts
414,704
Nepal, census 2021 (national and/or ethnic group, UN)
Sino-Tibetan
language family (Glottolog)

In brief

The largest documented number lives in Nepal: 414,704 people in the 2021 census.

Main language: Limbu. Glottolog classifies it in the Sino-Tibetan family.

Where they live: census figures

Each figure comes from the country's official census. Censuses define belonging differently (self-identification, citizenship, mother tongue, ancestry); the type is given on each row.

Nepal2021 · national and/or ethnic group, UN · «Limbu» · [1]
414,704

Languages and their lineage

Limbu

  1. Sino-Tibetansino1245
  2. Himalayishhima1249
  3. Mahakirantimaha1306
  4. Kirantikira1253
  5. Eastern Kirantieast2719
  6. Tamargrea1285
  7. Limbulimb1266

People-to-language links: Wikidata (properties P103 and P2936), checked against ISO 639-3 codes. Language classification: Glottolog 5.3.

Peoples of the same language family

Han ChineseHui peopleTujia peopleChinese peopleTibetansBai peopleTamang peopleHoa peopleRai peopleLahu peopleQiangJingpo peopleSherpaAkhaDungansPumiNu peopleMang peopleBamar (Burmans)

Sources

  1. United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD). Demographic Yearbook, table 26: Population by national and/or ethnic group. Nepal, Census - de jure - complete tabulation, Final figure, complete. https://data.un.org/Data.aspx?d=POP&f=tableCode%3a26%3bsexCode%3a0%3bareaCode%3a0%3bcountr…
  2. Hammarström H., Forkel R., Haspelmath M., Bank S. (2026). Glottolog 5.3. Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. glottolog.org (CC BY 4.0)