2 edition. — Kalimpong: Mani Printing Press, 2009. — 914 p. Lepcha is a Tibeto-Burman language spoken by the Lepcha people, mainly in the Indian state of Sikkim. The total number of carriers is about 38 thousand. For the Lepcha language, a special script was developed (known as Lepcha and as Rong), an abugida derived from the Tibetan script.
Kalimpong: Samikshya Print'z, 2016. — 50 p. Lepcha is a Tibeto-Burman language spoken by the Lepcha people, mainly in the Indian state of Sikkim. The total number of carriers is about 38 thousand. For the Lepcha language, a special script was developed (known as Lepcha and as Rong), an abugida derived from the Tibetan script.
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...
Sikkim Bhutia Lepcha Apex Committee, 2016. — 17 p. Lepcha is a major language and a lingua-franca of Sikkim. It is also known as Rong, Rongaring, or Rongring. Apart from Sikkim, Lepcha is also spoken in Nepal, Bhutan and the Indian State of West Bengal. Lepcha tradition says that it is the very language of the Deities. Tradition has it that after the Deity had created the...
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.
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...
Leiden: Universiteit Leiden, 2006. — X, 226 p. The present book is a descriptive study of the Lepcha language. The data for this study were collected during several pleasant sojourns amongst the cheerful Lepcha people in Kalimpong and Sikkim between 1994 and 1998. During my research, I also investigated the history and origins of old Lepcha texts. Phonology and orthography....
Calcutta: C.B. Lewis, 1876. — XXVII, 146 p. The Grammar itself is written to assist the learner; it does not challenge the strictures of the critic; its mission is alone, to be useful, and should it conduce to the employment of a language and the amelioration of a people. Before presenting to the public a grammar of a language, it may be considered meet to give some information...
Berlin: Unger Brothers, 1898. — XVI, 552 p.
Revised and completed by Albert Grünwedel. In presenting to the public the Lepcha-English dictionary of the late General G. B. Mainwaring, it is incumbent on me to explain the state of the manuscripts he left behind and the part which the editor has performed in making them ready for the press. Owing to a many years' acquaintance with...
Brill, 2007. — 273 p. — (Brill’s Tibetan Studies Library / Languages of the Greater Himalayan Region 5/5). Lepcha is a Tibeto-Burman language spoken in Sikkim, Darjeeling district in West Bengal in India, in Nepal, and in a few villages of Samtsi district in south-western Bhutan. The tribal homeland of the Lepcha people is referred to as ne máyel lyáng ‘hidden paradise’ or ne...