Róng

E558051

Róng is the endonym used by the Lepcha people to refer to their own language spoken primarily in parts of India, Bhutan, and Nepal.

All labels observed (3)

Label Occurrences
Rong 2
Róng canonical 2
Róngdani 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (48)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Lepcha language
language
alternativeName Lepcha
Rong
associatedWithRegion eastern Himalayas
associatedWithReligion Buddhism
Bön
country Bhutan
India
Nepal
endonymFor Lepcha language
ethnicGroup Lepcha people
linked to: Lepcha
hasAlternativeTransliteration Rongke
Rongring
hasConsonantInventory rich consonant system
hasCulturalRole marker of Lepcha identity
hasDialects Ilām variety
Kalimpong variety
hasGlottocode lepc1244
hasISO639-3Code lep
hasLanguageStatus vulnerable language
hasLinguisticTypology SOV word order
hasLoanwordsFrom Bengali
Nepali
Tibetan
hasMorphologicalType agglutinative language
hasPhonologicalFeature tonal contrasts (limited)
hasStandardForm Sikkim variety
hasVowelInventory moderate vowel system
isSubjectOf Lepcha language revitalization efforts
languageFamily Sino-Tibetan languages
Tibeto-Burman languages
nativeNameOf Lepcha language
recognizedAsMinorityLanguageIn Sikkim
region Himalayan region
scriptDirection left-to-right
spokenBy Lepcha people
linked to: Lepcha
spokenIn Bhutan
India
Nepal
spokenInRegion Darjeeling district
linked to: Darjeeling

Sikkim
usedAs vernacular language
usedByMinorityGroupIn Sikkim, India
usedIn oral tradition
traditional Lepcha literature
usedInEducation some schools in Sikkim
writingSystem Lepcha script

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (5)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Deng Rong givenName Rong
linked to: Róng
Lepcha hasAutonym Róng
Lepcha hasAlternativeName Rong
linked to: Róng
Rabha language endonym Róngdani
linked to: Róng