Limbu language
| Limbu | |
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| ᤕᤠᤰᤌᤢᤱ ᤐᤠᤴ Yakthuṅ pan | |
 yakthuṅ pan written in Limbu Script | |
| Native to | Sikkim and Eastern Nepal |
| Region | Nepal; significant communities in Bhutan; Sikkim and Darjeeling district of India |
| Ethnicity | Limbu |
Native speakers | 410,000 (2011–2021 censuses) |
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| Limbu script Roman script | |
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Official language in | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | lif |
| Glottolog | limb1266 |
| ELP | Limbu |
 Limbu script. Grey letters are obsolete. | |
Limbu (Limbu: ᤕᤠᤰᤌᤢᤱ ᤐᤠᤴ, yakthuṅ pan) is a Sino-Tibetan language spoken by the Limbu people of Nepal and Northeastern India (particularly West Bengal, Sikkim, Assam and Nagaland) as well as expatriate communities in Bhutan. The Limbu refer to themselves as Yakthung and their language as Yakthungpan. Yakthungpan has four main dialects: Phedape, Chhathare, Tambarkhole and Panthare dialects.
Among four dialects, the Phedape dialect is widely spoken and well understood by most Yakthungpan speakers. However, as there are some dominant Panthare scholars who have role to create knowledge and control knowledge in the Limbu communities, Panthare dialect is being popularised as a "standard" Limbu language. As Panthare Yakthungs are much more engaged in central political position and administrative positions, they are trying to introduce Panthare dialect as a Standard Yakthungpan.
Yakthungpan (Limbu language) is one of the major languages spoken and written in Nepal, Darjeeling, Kalimpong, Sikkim, and Bhutan.