A Sketch of the Modern Languages of the East Indies by Robert N. Cust

Author:Robert N. Cust [Cust, Robert N.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Social Science, Ethnic Studies, General
ISBN: 9780415245012
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Publisher: Routledge
Published: 1878-01-15T00:47:01+00:00

II. SIKHIM GROUP.

The Language of the independent territory of Sikhim is Lepcha, with two Dialects, Rong and Khamba. This tribe occupies a tract of one hundred and twenty miles in the basin of the Tiesta, bounded on the West by Nepál, the East by Bhutan, the North by Tibet, and the South by British India. A Grammar has been published by Mainwaring. At the sanitorium of Darjeeling a Protestant Mission has been established, which has led to the translation of a portion of the Bible in the Lepcha Character, and other books of an elementary nature. Though closely allied to Tibetan, the Language has a Non-Tibetan Character. The people are Buddhists, but they bury their dead. This Language will probably hold its own.

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