A native of Sikkim, educated in Delhi and based in Bengaluru, who has spent many years away from her home, might just have found a way to go back to her roots. An alumna of Pearl Academy, 22-year-old ...

Gangtok, Jan. 15: The Lepcha script will be covered by Unicode soon. The development will boost efforts to preserve the knowledge base of Sikkim’s original inhabitants in the electronic age. “Several ...

Kalimpong, Feb. 6: The Indigenous Lepcha Tribal Association is working on translating Rabindranath Tagore?s verses from Gitanjali into the Lepcha language. Association general secretary L.S. Tamsang ...

Being alienated from their mother tongue is not a novel phenomenon for the Lepcha tribe who are considered to be the first inhabitants of the Sikkim and the West Bengal districts of Darjeeling and ...

A total of 197 of around 2,500 languages on UNESCO’s list of endangered languages are from India. One of them is Lepcha, spoken by people in Sikkim and parts of West Bengal, Nepal and Bhutan. Unlike ...

The advent of globalisation has precipitated demise of human languages. People find it easier to communicate with those outside their culture through one single language. While languages spoken by the ...