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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...