@ponytailbeach@rosuilles Nepali, Its lingua franca. And they do speak their own language if you go to remote villages, not the main towns tho. But now most of them even younger generation has started to learn
@jonpebipaksok Development should be done in a culturally sensitive and ethical way. Indigenous people are connected to nature. The government became what they hated the most (a byproduct of colonials)
@AmanSharmaOFFCL@keonfairybase@rosuilles The primordial Kirati ethnogenesis, eg the Limbu tribe of sikkim, posits an archetypal cradle in Yunnan.Theres also a deep phylogenetic affinity linkinthe Sikkimese Lepcha with Nagas. Sikkim reflects a profound cultural, territorial, and bio consanguinity with the NE people.