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    Lepcha characters. Without proper rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols. Lepcha language, or Róng language (Lepcha:...
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    Lepchas are said to have migrated from Cambodia and Tibet having a similar culture, dressup, traits and history. They speak a Tibeto-Burman language which...
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    used by the Lepcha people to write the Lepcha language. Unusually for an abugida, syllable-final consonants are written as diacritics. Lepcha is derived...
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    Nepali Nepali Lepcha Lhokpu Kheng Gongduk Tshangla (Sharchop) There are two dozen languages of Bhutan, all members of the Tibeto-Burman language family except...
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  • "-bo" or "-po". Bhutia people Lepcha people Lepcha language Indigenous peoples of Sikkim History of Sikkim Bhutia language of sikkim at Ethnologue (18th...
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  • instead of the intended characters. Lepcha is a Unicode block containing characters for writing the Lepcha language of Sikkim and West Bengal, India. The...
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  • religion of the Lepcha people. It predates the 7th century Lepcha conversion to Lamaistic Buddhism, and since that time, the Lepcha have practiced it...
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  • up lepcha in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Lepcha may refer to: Lepcha people, of eastern Nepal, Sikkim and Darjeeling district Lepcha language, of...
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  • and a linguist. He compiled the first English dictionary of the Lepcha (or Róng) language. Mainwaring (pronounced "Mannering") was born in Banda in the...
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  • of Tibeto-Burman and Sino-Tibetan languages. Matisoff includes Bodish and West Himalayish with the Lepcha language as a third branch. He unites these...
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    Kingdom of Sikkim (category Articles containing Lepcha-language text)
    Tumlong (1793–1894) Gangtok (1894–1975) Official languages Chöke, Sikkimese Common languages Lepcha (early period), Dzongkha, Nepali (late period) Religion...
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    Indian Gorkha (category Nepali language)
    the last census. The Nepali/Gorkhali language is the lingua franca of Sikkim, while Tibetan (Bhutia) and Lepcha are spoken in certain areas. As per the...
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    Abugida (category Articles containing Ge'ez-language text)
    requires two aksharas to write: फष् phaṣ. The Róng script used for the Lepcha language goes further than other Indic abugidas, in that a single akshara can...
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  • Full stop (category Articles containing Greek-language text)
    example, the Róng script of the Lepcha language uses ᰻‎ and ᰼‎ (U+1C3B ᰻ LEPCHA PUNCTUATION TA-ROL and U+1C3C ᰼ LEPCHA PUNCTUATION NYET THYOOM TA-ROL)...
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    Cinnamomum tamala (category Articles containing Lepcha-language text)
    ఆకు/బగార ఆకు) in Telugu and tejåpåtrå/tejåpåtårå (ତେଜପତ୍ର/ତେଜପତର) in Odia. The Lepcha of Sikkim call them naap saor koong. They are often used in kumbilappam...
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  • had functional knowledge of Lepcha language and Nepali language. His name became Jerman from Germon, which in lepcha language means yellow by an error....
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    Brahmic scripts (category Articles containing Burmese-language text)
    rarely used. includes supplementary vowels not in contemporary use Tibetan, Lepcha, Limbu, New Tai Lue, Thai and Lao scripts do not have independent vowel...
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  • Transliteration language Latgalian language Latin language Latvian language Ledo Kaili language Lendu language Lepcha, Lepcha language Lepcha, Tibetan language Lezgian...
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    languages, but the rest have small speech communities. Other isolates and small groups in Nepal are Dura, Raji–Raute, Chepangic and Dhimalish. Lepcha...
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    Catunaregam spinosa (category Articles containing Lepcha-language text)
    yellow it called "second days flower" (दुसर्या दिवशीचे फळ) in Marathi. The Lepcha of Sikkim call it rung gaong koong. "Catunaregam spinosa (Thunb.) Tirveng...
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    land of poisonous flowers. The name derives from the Tibeto-Burman Lepcha language and translates as "the height of the poisonous plant" - in reference...
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  • An endangered language is a language that is at risk of falling out of use, generally because it has few surviving speakers. If it loses all of its native...
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    Kurseong (section Languages)
    The origin of the name is unclear; stories suggest it comes from the Lepcha language word for "small orchid", kurson-rip because of the little white orchids...
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  • Indigenous peoples of Sikkim (category Articles containing Standard Tibetan-language text)
    The indigenous people of Sikkim are the Lepchas and Limbus ; the naturalized ethnic populations of Bhutias, Kiratis, & Indian Gorkha of Nepalese descendants...
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    the name Sandakphu itself, which derives from the (Tibeto-Burman) Lepcha language and translates as "the height of the poisonous plant". Such was the...
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  • Recognition of same-sex unions in India (category Articles containing Lepcha-language text)
    S2CID 244424106. Plaisier, Heleen (2007). A grammar of Lepcha. Tibetan studies library: Languages of the greater Himalayan region. Vol. 5. BRILL. ISBN 978-90-04-15525-1...
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    Bornean and Austroasiatic languages. Lepcha substratum ("Rongic"). Many words of Austroasiatic origin have been noticed in Lepcha, suggesting a Sino-Tibetan...
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    known as Manipuri) and Bodo as well as the non-scheduled languages like Karbi, Deori, Lepcha, and many varieties of several related Tibetic, West Himalayish...
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  • Calamus flagellum (category Articles containing Lepcha-language text)
    southern China and Indo-China. Its name in Vietnamese is mây song, while the Lepcha of Sikkim call it rim. Calamus flagellum is a strong climber with stems...
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  • Appa (2019 film) (category Articles containing Nepali (macrolanguage)-language text)
    आप्पा; English: Father) is a Nepali-language film written and directed by Anmol Gurung and produced by Ruden Sada Lepcha. The film features Dayahang Rai,...
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