Primitive Lepcha Language in Eastern Himalaya

Abstract

The Lepcha, a tribe of mid forest of Eastern Himalaya having its language characteristic sharing affinity with compound vowels of the Chinese language and Burmese language. The vowels of Lepcha found some affinities with the Chinese phonetics. The mono-syaballe of Lepcha language is expressive along with compound vowels. There are six consonants having similarity with Burmese strokes in Lepcha language. The writing style, use of monsyallaballe and phonetic resembling Chinese language and Burmese scripts are uniqueness of Lepcha language. The Lepcha script characteristics are sharp, strokes or pointed.This paper attempted to discourse the Lepcha language and its script for the documentation of information of Lepcha community.