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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.
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)
The Lepcha write their language in their own script, called Róng or Lepcha script, which is derived from the Tibetan script. It was developed between the 17th and 18th centuries, possibly by a Lepcha scholar named Thikúng Munsulóng , during the reign of the third Chogyal (Tibetan king) of Sikkim .
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.
States and union territories of India by the spoken first language [1] [note 1]. The Republic of India is home to several hundred languages.Most Indians speak a language belonging to the families of the Indo-Aryan branch of Indo-European (c. 77%), the Dravidian (c. 20.61%), the Austroasiatic (precisely Munda and Khasic) (c. 1.2%), or the Sino-Tibetan (precisely Tibeto-Burman) (c. 0.8%), with ...
The Lepcha and Limbu is the earliest ethnic group to have settled in Sikkim.The word Sikkim was derived from "Sukhim" in Limbu language meaning new palace. They believe they are the autochthones while others considered that they were settled by the thirteenth century, coming from the hills before the arrival of the Tibetan Bhutias. [5]
Lepcha may refer to: Lepcha people, of eastern Nepal, Sikkim and Darjeeling district; Lepcha language, of the Lepcha people; Lepcha script; Lepcha (Unicode block) Lepcha, a genus of beetles in the family Carabidae; Ruben Lepcha (born 1988), Indian cricketer; Ruden Sada Lepcha (active from 2021), Indian politician from Gorkha Janmukti Morcha ...
Arunachal Pradesh is the state with the highest number of languages, with as many as 66 languages spoken there, [6] while West Bengal has the highest number of scripts, nine, and around 38 languages. The scripts that exist in Bengal are Ol Chicki (Santhal), Kol Ho, Barangh Kshiti, Lepcha, Sadri and Limbu besides Bengali, Urdu and Nepali. [7]