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Richard Keith Sprigg (31 March 1922 – 8 September 2011) was a British linguist who specialised in the phonology of Asian languages. Sprigg was educated under J. R. Firth and was a member of the first generation of professional British linguists.
The Lepcha script, or Róng script, is an abugida used by the Lepcha people to write the Lepcha language. Unusually for an abugida, syllable-final consonants are written as diacritics. Unusually for an abugida, syllable-final consonants are written as diacritics.
Lepcha. Limbu; Khema; Phagspa. ... Orthography and Society ‘’opined that ‘the Tanchangya community decided to base their alphabet on the Chakma to show they ...
Lepcha language, or Róng language (Lepcha: ᰛᰩᰵᰛᰧᰵᰶ ; Róng ríng), is a Himalayish language spoken by the Lepcha people in Sikkim, India and parts of West Bengal, Nepal, and Bhutan. Despite spirited attempts to preserve the language, Lepcha has already effectively been lost everywhere in favour of Nepali.
The Lepcha (/ ˈ l ɛ p tʃ ə /; [5] also called Rongkup (Lepcha: ᰕᰫ་ᰊᰪᰰ་ᰆᰧᰶ ᰛᰩᰵ་ᰀᰪᰱ ᰛᰪᰮ་ᰀᰪᰱ, Mútuncí Róngkup Rumkup, "beloved children of the Róng and of God") and Rongpa (Sikkimese: རོང་པ)) are among the indigenous people of the Indian state of Sikkim and Nepal, and number around ...
"A History of the Myanmar Alphabet" (PDF). Myanmar Language Commission. 1993. Myanmar Language Commission. 1993. Archived from the original (PDF) on 26 March 2010 .
Lepcha is a Unicode block containing characters for writing the Lepcha language of Sikkim and West Bengal, India. Lepcha [1] [2] Official Unicode Consortium code chart (PDF)
Ditema tsa Dinoko (Sesotho for "Ditema syllabary"), also known as ditema tsa Sesotho, is a constructed writing system (specifically, a featural syllabary) for the siNtu or Southern Bantu languages (such as Sesotho, Setswana, IsiZulu, IsiXhosa, SiSwati, SiPhuthi, Xitsonga, EMakhuwa, ChiNgoni, SiLozi, ChiShona and Tshivenḓa).