Лепча

Bulletin of Tibetology 2005 №41 (1) — pp. 7-24. The Lepcha people are believed to be the aboriginal inhabitants of Sikkim. The Lepcha language is spoken in Sikkim, Darjeeling district in West Bengal in India, in Ilām district in Nepal, and in a few villages of Samtsi district in south-western Bhutan.

Asia Major (New Series), 1966 №12, pp. 185-201. Classifying Lepcha as a stress language will result in dividing Lepcha from Balti Tibetan and other tone languages. The two distinctive pitch levels of Lepcha, restricted though their function is, will earn Lepcha a special status among stress languages. Tone-language criteria. Degree to which lexically distinctive pitch is...

Tibeto-Burman languages of the Himalayas. — Canberra: Pacific Linguistics, 1997. — (Papers in Southeast Asian Linguistics, No. 14). — pp.175–182. It is remarkable that the language of the Lepchas, with only 34,894 speakers recorded for it in 1909, "roughly estimated as follows: - Sikkim.25,000; Darjeeling.9,894" (Linguistic survey of India П1/1 p.233), when Nepali was just...