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