Lepcha in India

Speakers

47,331

Type

Location

Lepcha in India

Country

Information available

1. Basics

Names

Lepcha in India

Size

47,331

2. Status

Status

  • Official country wide language
  • Official regional language
  • Official minority language
  • Recognised community language
  • Unrecognised community language
National language
No
Indigenous language
Yes
Administrative units of the country
NER

3. State

Documentation: materials

Written

  • Extended corpora
  • Annotated corpora
  • Corpus/corpora
  • Materials/corpus
  • Some materials
  • No materials
Digital
Yes
Comments
1. Lepcha 2 by Suksingh Lepcha 2014
https://archive.org/details/dli.language.1080

2. Lepcha 3 by Dup Shuzong Lepcha
https://archive.org/details/dli.language.1084

3. Learn Lepcha Words With Pictures by Dup Shuzong Lepcha
https://archive.org/details/dli.language.1083

4. Grammar of the Lepcha Language by Mainwaring, G. B.
https://archive.org/details/rosettaproject_lep_vertxt-1

5. Old Testament Bible stories in Lepcha by Stolke, Benjamin; Klafkowski, Piotr 1977.
https://archive.org/details/rosettaproject_lep_gen-1
https://archive.org/search?query=lepcha&and%5B%5D=mediatype%3A%22texts%22



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Video

  • Extended corpora
  • Annotated corpora
  • Corpus/corpora
  • Materials/corpus
  • Some materials
  • No materials
Digital
Yes
Comments
https://globalrecordings.net/en/program/32661
https://globalrecordings.net/en/program/16701
https://globalrecordings.net/en/program/31221
https://globalrecordings.net/en/program/37501
https://www.jesusfilm.org/watch/jesus.html/lepcha.html
http://www.inspirationalfilms.com/audio/the_story_of_jesus_ lepcha_84206.mp3
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RcxFCNM2758
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NxpQy7OIKVI
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=lepcha+languae+ and+culture+

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Audio

  • Extended corpora
  • Annotated corpora
  • Corpus/corpora
  • Materials/corpus
  • Some materials
  • No materials
Digital
Yes
Comments
https://archive.org/details/hisfwydhsdtd8n5hyi6kdcalw4fqpcwsza6s3lzd
https://archive.org/details/xlt4ceb8r0q5dymgwtzadw6b1ie3zukmodfv8oik
https://archive.org/details/DJMoonbird_jayjoslin_FreeRadioFriendistanPodcastEpisode20_LifeDuringZooTime_
https://archive.org/search?query=lepcha&and%5B%5D=mediatype%3A%22audio%22
https://api.globalrecordings.net/files/language/mp3/677.zip
https://api.globalrecordings.net/files/language/mp3-low/677.zip
https://globalrecordings.net/en/language/lep

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Documentation: descriptions

  • Elaborated dictionaries, grammars, statistical language models, etc.
  • Dictionaries and grammars
  • Dictionary and grammar
  • Glossary and descriptions
  • Few descriptions
  • No descriptions
Digital
Yes
Comments
1. Mainwaring, George Byres, 1825-1893; Grünwedel, Albert, 1856-1935 , (1898). Dictionary of the Lepcha-language.
https://archive.org/details/cu31924023194198/page/172/mode/2up
2. Mainwaring, G. B., (1971) Grammar of the Lepcha Language
https://archive.org/details/rosettaproject_lep_ortho-1
https://archive.org/search?query=lepcha&and%5B%5D=mediatype%3A%22texts%22
3. Sinha, Prabhakar, 1966. A descriptive grammar of Lepcha, Deccan College Post Graduate and Research Institute Pune.
4. Lepcha, Rongnyoo, 2022. Dynamics of material culture of Lepchas in Sikkim Klimpong and Darjeeling,Department of Anthropology, Sikkim University.
http://hdl.handle.net/10603/444450
5. Joshi, Vidyarati, 2017. A semantic study of Nepali and Lepcha towards a reversible computational lexicon, Department of Linguistics, North-Eastern Hill University.
http://hdl.handle.net/10603/252293
https://shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in/simple-search?query=lepcha&go=
6. Heleen Plaisier. 2007. A Grammar of Lepcha. (Languages of the Greater Himalayan Region, 5.) Leiden and Boston: Leiden: E.~J.~Brill. 273pp. (Brill's Tibetan Studies Library 5. Also as 2006 PhD U Leiden.)
https://glottolog.org/resource/reference/id/109246
7. Heleen Plaisier. 2006. A Grammar of Lepcha. 5.5. Leiden: Brill. (Includes bibliographical references and index, Rijksuniversiteit te Leiden; 238pp.)
https://glottolog.org/resource/reference/id/61871
https://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/lepc1244
5.

Standardization

  • Modern standard language
  • Young standard language
  • Standardised language
  • Quasi-standard language
  • Semi-standardised language
  • Un-standardised language

Graphisation & script encoding

  • Standardised writing system with full script encoding
  • Conventionalised writing system with partial script encoding
  • Consistent writing system with no script encoding
  • Unsystematic writing system(s)
  • Limited written use
  • No written use
Comments
Lepcha has written with Lepcha or Rong script

4. Users

Geographical distribution

  • Users live and dominate in all regions of the country
  • Users live in one [state/...] of the country
  • Users live in a cross-border region [state/...] of the country
  • Users live in separated [states/...] of the country
  • Users live dispersed across one [state/...] of the country
  • Users live scattered all over the country

Settlements

  • Rural
  • Urban
Administrative units of the country
Sikkim

Size / Number of users

Number of users

47331
Source
census of India
Year
2011

Users within total population

Users within the reference community

Age distribution of users

Generational use

Educational attainment

Occupational qualifications

Language competence

Literacy of users

More than 50% of users with literacy in the language
Year
2011

Digital use

5. Use

Socio-geographic dimension

Geographic scope
  • International
  • Supranational
  • Cross-border (states)
  • State-wide
  • Supra-regional cross-border
  • Supra-regional
  • Regional cross-border
  • Regional
  • Local
Source
https://langlex.com/cens/MTProfile.php?mtname=Lepcha

Economic dimension

Functional dimension

Functional scope
  • Public domains
  • Everyday domains
  • Private domains

Functional use in administration

Language use in administration
  • International level
  • National level
  • Regional level
  • Local level
  • Auxiliary use
  • No use

Types of language use

  • signed / spoken use
  • written use
  • digital use

Ethnoculture

  • No use
  • Informal learning
  • Skills and knowledge
  • Performing arts
  • Social practices
  • Customary law
  • Traditional medicine
  • Knowledge and practices
  • Traditions and expressions

Formal Education

Early childhood education
Primary level
Lower secondary level
Higher secondary level
Tertiary level

Public healthcare

Information, communication and cultural production

  • Information services
  • Broadcasting
  • Video, film
  • Sound/music recording
  • Publishing activities
  • Language not used
  • Information services
  • Broadcasting
  • Video, film
  • Sound/music recording
  • Publishing activities
  • Language not used
  • Information services
  • Broadcasting
  • Video, film
  • Sound/music recording
  • Publishing activities
  • Language not used

Legal system

Language use in the legal system
  • General use
  • Legal transactions
  • Court proceedings
  • Written submissions
  • Spoken/signed testimonies
  • Language not used

Areas of law the language is used

  • Criminal law
  • Civil law
  • Administrative law

Geographical scope of legal language use

  • Local
  • Regional
  • National
  • International

Completion