Editing Limbu script (section)

=== Accounts with Sirijunga ===
The [[Limbu language]] is one of the few [[Sino-Tibetan languages|Sino-Tibetan]] languages of the Central [[Himalayas]] to possess their own scripts.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Sprigg |first1=R. K. |date=1959 |publisher=Deutsche Morgenländische Gesellschaft, in Kommission bei Franz Steiner Verlag |pages=590–592 |url=https://eprints.soas.ac.uk/16711/ |language=en |chapter=Limbu books in the Kiranti Script|title=Akten des vierundzwanzigsten Internationalen Orientalisten-Kongresses München 28}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Sprigg |first1=R. K. |title=Original and sophisticated features of the Lepcha and Limbu scripts |date=1998 |pages=1–18 |url=https://eprints.soas.ac.uk/17412/ |language=en}}</ref> The Limbu or Sirijunga script was devised during the period of Buddhist expansion in [[Sikkim]] in the early 18th century when [[Limbuwan]] still constituted part of Sikkimese territory. The Limbu script was probably composed at roughly the same time as the [[Lepcha script]] which was created by the third King of Sikkim, [[Chakdor Namgyal]] (ca. 1700–1717). The Limbu script is ascribed to the [[Limbu people|Limbu]] hero, [[Te-ongsi Sirijunga Xin Thebe]].