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...
Main Author: | Sprigg, R. K. |
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Format: | Journal Article |
Language: | English |
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2024
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Online Access: | https://hdl.handle.net/10356/178877 |
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