Why Tamang Lipi Is So Important for Our Community and Language ?

🌀 Tamang Lipi is the Heart of the Tamang Language

Language cannot survive without a script. When we lose our script, we slowly lose the ability to express our thoughts, our prayers, and our stories in our own way.

Tamang Lipi is specifically designed for the sounds of the Tamang language. It holds the rhythm, flow, and spirit of how we speak. Roman and Devanagari scripts do not fully capture our unique tone, pronunciation, or emotion. Only Tamang Lipi truly fits our voice.

When we teach our language in our own script, we are not borrowing from another culture—we are standing on our own foundation.

🌱 Cultural Identity Begins with Writing Your Own Name

Imagine a child who writes their name for the first time—in Tamang Lipi. The pride in their eyes, the connection they feel to their grandparents, and the spark of curiosity to learn more about their culture—that is the power of having your own script.

Our ancestors may not have had the digital tools, but they passed down their wisdom orally. Now, we have a chance to write it down, preserve it, and share it worldwide.

Without Tamang Lipi, our language becomes just a sound. With Tamang Lipi, it becomes a living language.

📱 Why We Need Tamang Lipi in the Digital Age

Today, children learn more from phones than from books. That’s our new reality. If Tamang Lipi is not part of mobile apps, websites, and social media, it will vanish from the daily lives of young people.

That’s why I’ve dedicated my life to digitalizing Tamang Lipi:

• Unicode support ✅

• Web converters ✅

• Keyboard layout ✅

• Learning materials ✅

These are not just technical tools—they are keys to cultural survival.

🤝 Reviving Pride in Being Tamang

When our people see their language and script being used online, in schools, in public spaces, something changes inside them. A sense of pride, belonging, and dignity grows.

Tamang Lipi can unite us. It can connect our villages with our cities, our elders with our youth, and our roots with the rest of the world.

✊ A Call to All Tamangs

We must take this seriously. No one else will do it for us.

• Learn Tamang Lipi

• Teach it to your children

• Use it in your daily life

• Support the development of fonts, books, and digital tools

• Demand its inclusion in schools and institutions

This is our script. This is our identity. This is our moment.

🕊️ Final Words from My Heart

Tamang Lipi is not just letters—it is who we are. If we don’t preserve it now, we risk losing not just a script, but a whole world of knowledge, memory, and identity.

Let’s rise together, Tamang brothers and sisters.
Let’s write our future—in our own script.

With deep respect and hope,
Wanju Wayba
Tamang Script Developer | Advocate for Digital Empowerment | Proud Son of the Tamang Community