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fonts/sil-fonts/namdhinggo 3.100 OpenBSD

complete Limbu font

System
OpenBSD
Repository
OpenBSD ports
Maintainer
Anthony J. Bentley <[email protected]>
Categories
fonts

Description

Namdhinggo is a Unicode Limbu font for this elegant writing system of Nepal. It provides glyphs for the full range of Limbu characters (U+1900..U+194F) as well as basic Latin. Five weights are provided: Regular, Medium, SemiBold, Bold, ExtraBold.

The Limbu, or Kirat Sirijonga, script is used by around 400,000 people in Nepal and India. This Unicode-encoded font has been designed to support literacy and materials development in the Limbu language.

According to traditional histories, the Limbu script was developed by King Sirijonga in the 9th Century. It then fell out of use before being reintroduced in the 18th century by Teongsi Sirijonga (1704-1741) whom many felt to be the reincarnation of the first Sirijonga. The modern Sirijonga was apparently martyred in 1741 for the sake of this script by lamas in Sikkim. The script was named "Sirijonga" in his honour by the Limbu scholar Iman Singh Chemjong.

Install

Binary package:

pkg_add namdhinggo

From the ports tree:

cd /usr/ports/fonts/sil-fonts/namdhinggo && make install

Dependency graph

Ports that need it on the left, what it needs to run on the right (to build, as it needs nothing to run); at most 8 of each. "Dependencies" below lists them all.

Dependencies

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