Release of 'A Grammar of Limbu' by Dutch linguist George van Drim

Falgun 22, 2081

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Release of 'A Grammar of Limbu' by Dutch linguist George van Drim

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The book 'A Grammar of Limbu Based on the Fedape Dialect of the Old Limbu Hurt Land' written by Dutch linguist George Van Drim has been released. The book was released at Myanglung, Tehrathum headquarters on Wednesday during a program with the support of Myanglung municipality. The author is known as an expert in Dream 10 languages.

The edition of the book published by German Briter Publishing House in 1987 was published by Jagdamba Publishing, Kathmandu with the support of the Swiss Embassy in Nepal.   In the

book, the 'grammar' of Fedape Limbu language is mentioned. Santosh Tigela, chairman of Chhathar Rural Municipality, said that the book will be useful for those who want to study Fedape Limbu language all over the world. In the book release program, he also expressed his gratitude to the author who prepared this book, which will remain as a history and document of the world community.

As the language is disappearing among the new generation of Limbu community, while the foreign citizen writer George Van is publishing a book containing the grammar of Fedape Limbu language, Menchhyayem Rural Municipality Chairman Yadav Khapung said that other agencies here should also be serious about language preservation.

Arjunbabu Mabohang, head of Laligurans Municipality, said that if Bhandrin's discovery of the spread of the entire human race from the Kumbhakarna and Dhaulagiri Himal regions of Nepal is proven and if it is proven that the Bhot Burmese language family expanded from the Fedap of Terathum, Terathum can become a center of study for anthropologists and linguists from around the world.

George Vandrim, a resident of Holland, in the year 2039, Manlung-10 of Tehrathum, the then Tamphula village  Fedape studied the Limbu language while staying at Tamphula village in Panchayat for six months. The author Vandrimal recalled that when he was a linguistics student in Holland, the professors sent him to the Limbuwan area of ​​Nepal after studying the research book that German language and Dutch linguists' Chinese vot is found in Limbuwan, the old form of Burmese language.

He mentioned that he studied the Limbu language with the help of local Narayan Limbu. The version of the book published three decades ago was published with the help of the Swiss Embassy and others in order to make it accessible to Nepalis, according to Jagdamba Publications. 

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