'Lepcha' (ISO/DIS 639-3: lep) is a language spoken by the
Lepcha people in
Sikkim in
India, and parts of
Nepal and
Bhutan. The
Lepcha script (also known as "róng") is a
syllabic script which has a lot of special marks and requires ligatures. Its genealogy is unclear. Early Lepcha manuscripts were written vertically, a sign of
Chinese influence. Lepcha is considered to be one of the aboriginal languages of the area in which it is spoken. Total number of speakers numbers near 50,000.
Bibliography
Coulmas, Florian. The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Writing Systems. Blackwell, 1996.
External links
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Script
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Ethnologue Report
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Heleen Plaisier's Lepcha Page
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