Open questions

Both thar lists that carry the name attach the same qualifier, spelled “Manjia” on one and “Manija” on the other लिम्बु थर हरु (a Limbu thar list) The Complete List of Limbu Clans and Tribes E. Elsewhere in the same lists the dash attaches a place — Nogo–Tambarkhola is the Nogo lineage of the Tambar thum — so “Ninglekhu–Manjia” would name a sub-lineage identified by a place, a thum or an ancestor. No source defines it, and searches in Latin and in Devanagari (मन्जिया / माञ्जिया / मञ्जिया) produced nothing.

No source places the clan in a thum, in the Khambongba / Tangsangba / Munaphen classification, or in the Lhasa-gotra / Kashi-gotra scheme Ninglekhu/ku heritage documentation project 2026 C. Ten interviews recording thum, khola, village and ward would produce a defensible answer where zero sources currently exist. Kirat Yakthung Chumlung should also be approached for the fullest published thar enumeration and for any records equivalent to the samet lists held for other groups Kirat Yakthung Chumlung (Nepal), and Kirat Yakthung Chumlung UK.

The first element is solid — Starling gives niŋwa, “mind, memory, remembrance; desire, satisfaction, intent” Sino-Tibetan etymological database — the Limbu lexical dataset B. The rest is open: the Pangloss Limbu dictionary of the Mewa Khola dialect blocked automated access throughout Pangloss Collection: the Limbu dictionary of the Mewa Khola dialect, Weidert and Subba sits on an unreachable Internet Archive Weidert, Alfons, and Bikram Subba 1985, and the glossary appendix of Tumbahang’s grammar could not be extracted Tumbahang, Govinda Bahadur.

Election Commission candidate rolls, SEE and NEB result lists, Nepal Army and Police rolls, Tribhuvan University graduate lists, and Sikkim and Darjeeling electoral rolls were all unreached when the search allowance ran out Ninglekhu/ku heritage documentation project 2026 C. These are incomplete searches, not absences.

Answered by the clan itself: the name is written both Ninglekhu and Ningleku, both spellings are in use among clan members today, and a group that calls itself Ningleku belongs to the same thar. The site now writes the name Ninglekhu/ku and keeps the two spellings in one record The clan, conveyed by the site’s owner on its behalf 2026 E. The earlier open finding — an undetermined “Ningleku” cluster of music and vlog content online — is resolved on that basis Ninglekhu/ku heritage documentation project 2026 C.

Caplan Caplan, Lionel 1970, Sagant Sagant, Philippe 1996, Höfer Höfer, Andras 1979, Pradhan Pradhan, Kumar 1991, Rex Jones Jones, Rex L., Chaitanya Subba Subba, Chaitanya, Amrita Thebe Thebe, Amrita and the Law Commission of Sikkim Law Commission of Sikkim were all confirmed to exist but not obtained in full text B.

The report’s coverage of both disputes runs out in early 2025 and is date-stamped “as of February 2025” wherever it appears on this site 2025 The Kathmandu Post and Ekantipur: the Koshi naming vote (1 March 2023), the December 2024 dialogue committee, and the August 2026 indigenous-language digitisation report C.

The Nepal Living Standards Survey IV was consulted and contains no ethnicity disaggregation National Statistics Office, Nepal 2023 A. That is why this site can describe how many Limbus there are but not how they live.

The four names circulate widely but could not be independently verified in this pass Ninglekhu/ku heritage documentation project 2026 C. “Yakwa” was confirmed only as the Khadamang’s seed-sowing permission rite, not as a separately named festival. Kirat Yakthung Chumlung UK’s own calendar names Sisekpa Tangnam (summer), Yakwa Tangnam (autumn) and Chasok Tangnam (harvest) as the festivals it observes — community attestation, but not obtained as a fetched quotation Kirat Yakthung Chumlung (Nepal), and Kirat Yakthung Chumlung UK. They are published here as unverified names, not as festivals.

Commons file pages could not be fetched during the research pass, so every such image is catalogued as “verify on the page” and none is published here Ninglekhu/ku heritage documentation project 2026 C.

Colonial-era ethnographic photographs come with their own history and would be captioned with photographer, date and circumstances rather than used as decoration Ninglekhu/ku heritage documentation project 2026 C.

The Sirijunga form used in this site’s wordmark is the project’s own transliteration of the Devanagari, not an attested spelling: no source writes the clan name in Limbu script Ninglekhu/ku heritage documentation project 2026 C. It is set in Unicode, not in a hacked font, so a reader who knows the script can copy it and correct it Unicode Consortium 2003.