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    culture and tradition in the state. Nepali is the lingua franca of Sikkim, while Sikkimese (Bhutia) and Lepcha are spoken in certain areas. English is also...
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    culture and tradition in the state. Nepali is the lingua franca of Sikkim, while Sikkimese (Bhutia) and Lepcha are spoken in certain areas. English is also...
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    'Olekha (Monpa) Brokkat Chocangacakha Chali Dakpa Brokpa Nepali Nepali Nepali Lepcha Lhokpu Kheng Gongduk Tshangla (Sharchop) There are two dozen languages of...
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    last census. The Nepali/Gorkhali language is the lingua franca of Sikkim, while Tibetan (Bhutia) and Lepcha are spoken in certain areas. As per the 2011 Census...
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    Assamese · Balochi · Boro · Dogri · Dzongkha · Kashmiri · Kokborok · Konkani · Lepcha · Maithili · Maldivian · Meitei · Mizo · Odia · Pashto · Santali · Sikkimese ·...
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  • (66.51%), Buddhism (23.9%), Christianity (5.1%) and Islam (3.9%). The Lepchas were considered the main indigenous community of the region, their original...
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    mainly in the Indian state of Mizoram, where it is the official language and lingua franca. It is the mother tongue of the Mizo people and some members of the...
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    Tibeto-Burman language of northeast India. It is the official language and the lingua franca of Manipur and an additional official language in four districts...
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    Indian state of Assam, where it is an official language. It serves as a lingua franca in parts of the Northeast India from a long time, in Arunachal Pradesh...
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    Inscriptional Pahlavi, Inscriptional Parthian, Javanese, Kayah Li, Khmer, Lepcha, Limbu, Linear A, Linear B, Lycian, Lydian, Mandaic, Manichaean, Meitei...
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  • minority. There are over 450,000 speakers of this language. Hakha Chin is the lingua franca in Thantlang and Hakha townships of Chin State. The Hakha Chin (Lai)...
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    as Manipuri) and Bodo as well as the non-scheduled languages like Karbi, Lepcha, and many varieties of several related Tibetic, West Himalayish, Tani, Brahmaputran...
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  • the official language of the state being English, Nagamese functions as a lingua franca and is spoken by nearly all Nagaland inhabitants. It is also used...
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  • Haflong Hindi (Hindi: हफ़लौंग हिन्दी) is the lingua franca of Dima Hasao district of Assam state of India. It is a pidgin that stemmed from Hindustani...
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  • family of languages. Nefamese emerged in eastern Arunachal Pradesh as a lingua franca among the Nyishi, Adi, Apatanai, Khampti, Hill Miri, Idu Mishimi...
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  • Official language in: the Spanish autonomous community of Castile and León Lepcha – ᰛᰩᰵ་ᰛᰧᰶᰵ Official language in: the Indian state of Sikkim Limbu – ᤕᤰᤌᤢᤱ...
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    and the Ladakh region. The national language of Bhutan is Dzongkha, while Lepcha, Limbu, Gurung, Magar, Rai, Newari, Tamang, Tshangla, Thakali and Sikkimese...
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    is dominant in Sikkim, besides the Sino-Tibetan languages Limbu, Bhutia, Lepcha, Rai, Tamang, Sherpa, etc. Bengali was made the official language of Colonial...
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    adopted as a lingua franca by many sub-tribes in Sagaing Division of Myanmar. In India, Nagamese or Nefamese are typically used as a lingua franca. The...
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    Nepali language (category Lingua francas)
    official, and most widely spoken, language of Nepal, where it also serves as a lingua franca. Nepali has official status in the Indian state of Sikkim and in...
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  • several other regional languages such as Sundanese and Madurese, the regional lingua franca Malay, as well as the historical languages Kawi and Sanskrit. It...
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    Mustang Sherpa people Baima people Balti people Bhotias and Bhutia Burig Lepcha people Limbu people Lhoba people Monpa Tibetan Thakali people Changpa people...
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    Retrieved 20 March 2014. Jha, Subhash K. (11 April 2007). "Suneel, Kangana's lingua fracas". Hindustan Times. Archived from the original on 10 May 2017. Retrieved...
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    Sanskrit at a mother tongue level. It is also difficult to accept that the lingua franca of the rural masses is Sanskrit, when most the majority of L1, L2...
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    hymns recorded in the Adi Granth has been called Sant Bhasha, a kind of lingua franca used by the medieval saint-poets of northern India. But the broad...
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  • Meitei (Manipuri) India / Nepal: Nepali, Bhojpuri India / Bhutan: Nepali, Lepcha India / Bangladesh: Bengali, Meitei (Manipuri), Chakma, Kokborok India /...
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  • the 20+ Hmar subtribes had their own dialect, over time they developed a lingua-franca, a common language for them all which today is known as "Khawsak...
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    district, Nagaland Most Zeme speakers are bi- or multi-lingual in the regional lingua franca of Manipuri and English. Zeme belongs to the Kuki-Chin section of...
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  • Congo) lem I/L Nomaande len I/E Lenca leo I/L Leti (Cameroon) lep I/L Lepcha lepcha 雷布查语 leq I/L Lembena ler I/L Lenkau les I/L Lese let I/L Lesing-Gelimi...
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    Aimol. Additionally, Aimol is reportedly less influenced by Meitei, the lingua franca of the state of Manipur, as compared to the other neighboring languages...
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