A grammar of the Lepcha language. [A grammar of the Rong (Lepcha) language, as it exists in the Dorjeling and Sikim Hills]
Published by Manjusri Publishing House, New Delhi, 1971
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Edition limited to 500 copies (this, no. 201), being a reprint of the Calcutta 1876 edition; 4to, pp. [11], vi-xxiv, 146; title page printed in red and black; fine copy in original red cloth, gilt-stamped spine, in a near fine, unclipped dust jacket. Issued as Series II, volume 5 in the publisher's Bibliotheca Himalayica series, edited by H. K. Kuloy. Mainwaring (1824-1894) was a British Indian army officer and a linguist. In 1867 he was appointed by the government to produce a dictionary and grammar of the Lepcha language. He compiled the first English dictionary of the Lepcha (or Róng) language first published in 1898 in Berlin. He lived in Darjeeling at Lebong and later at Poloongdong and studied the Lepcha language under a Lepcha priestess who learned some English (see Wikipedia).
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