The syllable finals of Tibetan loan words in Lepcha orthography
Though Lepcha has probably been written at least since the reign of Chador Namgyal, the third Maharajah of Sikkim (1700-1717), the number of Lepchas with the skill to read and write the Lepcha script must always have been very small: a first estimate of the Lepcha population of Sikkim, in 1840, put...
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| description | Though Lepcha has probably been written at least since the reign of Chador Namgyal, the third Maharajah of Sikkim (1700-1717), the number of Lepchas with the skill to read and write the Lepcha script must always have been very small: a first estimate of the Lepcha population of Sikkim, in 1840, put it at only three thousand; in the Sikkim census of 1891 a total of 5,762 was recorded, to which should be added the Lepcha population of the Darjeeling District of Bengal, numbering 3,952 according to the 1872 census. It seems a fair assumption that only about a quarter of those 19th—century totals could have been adult males, and, therefore potentially literate in Lepcha. |
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| spelling | ntu-10356/1788772024-07-12T00:40:35Z The syllable finals of Tibetan loan words in Lepcha orthography Sprigg, R. K. Arts and Humanities Though Lepcha has probably been written at least since the reign of Chador Namgyal, the third Maharajah of Sikkim (1700-1717), the number of Lepchas with the skill to read and write the Lepcha script must always have been very small: a first estimate of the Lepcha population of Sikkim, in 1840, put it at only three thousand; in the Sikkim census of 1891 a total of 5,762 was recorded, to which should be added the Lepcha population of the Darjeeling District of Bengal, numbering 3,952 according to the 1872 census. It seems a fair assumption that only about a quarter of those 19th—century totals could have been adult males, and, therefore potentially literate in Lepcha. Published version 2024-07-12T00:40:35Z 2024-07-12T00:40:35Z 1986 Journal Article Sprigg, R. K. (1986). The syllable finals of Tibetan loan words in Lepcha orthography. Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area, 9(1), 27-46. https://dx.doi.org/10.32655/LTBA.9.1.03 0731-3500 https://hdl.handle.net/10356/178877 10.32655/LTBA.9.1.03 1 9 27 46 en Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area © 1986 The Editor(s). All rights reserved. application/pdf |
| spellingShingle | Arts and Humanities Sprigg, R. K. The syllable finals of Tibetan loan words in Lepcha orthography |
| title | The syllable finals of Tibetan loan words in Lepcha orthography |
| title_full | The syllable finals of Tibetan loan words in Lepcha orthography |
| title_fullStr | The syllable finals of Tibetan loan words in Lepcha orthography |
| title_full_unstemmed | The syllable finals of Tibetan loan words in Lepcha orthography |
| title_short | The syllable finals of Tibetan loan words in Lepcha orthography |
| title_sort | syllable finals of tibetan loan words in lepcha orthography |
| topic | Arts and Humanities |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10356/178877 |
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