Lepcha script: Difference between revisions

|name=Lepcha

|native_name={{Script|Lepc|ᰛᰩᰴ}}

|sample=lepcha.png

|type=[[Abugida]]

|fam1=[[Proto-Sinaitic alphabet]]

|fam2=[[Phoenician alphabet]]

|fam3=[[Aramaic alphabet]] ^[a]

|footnotes=[a] The Semitic origin of the Brahmic scripts is not universally agreed upon.

|fam4=[[Brāhmī script|Brāhmī]]

|fam5=[[Gupta script|Gupta]]

|fam6=[[Tibetan script|Tibetan]]

|sisters=[[Meitei script|Meitei]], [[Phagspa script|Phagspa]], [[Marchen script|Marchen]]

|children=[[Limbu script|Limbu]]

|languages=[[Lepcha language|Lepcha]]

|time=c. 1700–present

|unicode=[https://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U1C00.pdf U+1C00–U+1C4F]

|iso15924=Lepc

Lepcha is derived from the [[Tibetan script]], and may have some [[Burmese script|Burmese]] influence. According to tradition, it was devised at the beginning of the 18th century by prince [[Chakdor Namgyal]] of the [[Chogyal|Namgyal dynasty]] of [[Sikkim]], or by scholar [[Thikúng Men Salóng]] in the 17th century. Early Lepcha manuscripts were written vertically, a sign of Chinese influence. When they were later written horizontally, the letters remained in their new orientations, rotated 90° from their Tibetan prototypes. This resulted in an unusual method of writing final consonants.

| '''[[International Phonetic Alphabet|IPA]]''' || /a/ || /ka/ || /kʰa/ || /ga/ || /ŋa/ || /tʃa/ || /tʃʰa/ || /dʒa/ || /nja/ || /ta/ || /tʰa/ || /da/ || /na/ || /pa/ || /pʰa/ || /fa/ || /ba/ || /ma/  

| '''Transcription''' || sa || sha || za || ya || ra || la || ha || va || ša || ssa || wa

| '''[[International Phonetic Alphabet|IPA]]''' || /sa/ || /sʰa/ || /za/ || /ja/ || /ra/ || /la/ || /ha/ || /va/ || /ʃa/ || /θa/ || /ua/

| '''Transcription''' || â || á || i || í || o || ó || u || ú || e/ä{{efn|The transcription 'e' is used in this article.}}

| '''Dependent diacritical mark''' || {{huge|{{Script|Lepc| ᰶ}}}} || {{huge|{{Script|Lepc| ᰦ}}}} || {{huge|{{Script|Lepc|ᰧ}}}} || {{huge|{{Script|Lepc|ᰧ ᰶ}}}} || {{huge|{{Script|Lepc|ᰨ}}}} || {{huge|{{Script|Lepc|ᰩ}}}} || {{huge|{{Script|Lepc|ᰪ}}}} || {{huge|{{Script|Lepc|ᰫ}}}} || {{huge|{{Script|Lepc|ᰬ}}}}

| '''Letter (not dependent)''' || {{huge|{{Script|Lepc|ᰣᰶ}}}} || {{huge|{{Script|Lepc|ᰣᰦ}}}} || {{huge|{{Script|Lepc|ᰣᰧ}}}} || {{huge|{{Script|Lepc|ᰣᰧᰶ}}}} || {{huge|{{Script|Lepc|ᰣᰨ}}}} || {{huge|{{Script|Lepc|ᰣᰩ}}}} || {{huge|{{Script|Lepc|ᰣᰪ}}}} || {{huge|{{Script|Lepc|ᰣᰫ}}}} || {{huge|{{Script|Lepc|ᰣᰬ}}}}

| '''Example using {{huge|{{Script|Lepc|ᰜ}}}}(la)''' || {{huge|{{Script|Lepc|ᰜᰶ}}}}(lâ) || {{huge|{{Script|Lepc|ᰜᰦ}}}}(lá) || {{huge|{{Script|Lepc|ᰜᰧ}}}}(li) || {{huge|{{Script|Lepc|ᰜᰧᰶ}}}}(lí) || {{huge|{{Script|Lepc|ᰜᰨ}}}}(lo) || {{huge|{{Script|Lepc|ᰜᰩ}}}}(ló) || {{huge|{{Script|Lepc|ᰜᰪ}}}}(lu) || {{huge|{{Script|Lepc|ᰜᰫ}}}}(lú) || {{huge|{{Script|Lepc|ᰜᰬ}}}}(le)

|| ᱀ || ᱁ || ᱂ || ᱃ || ᱄ || ᱅ || ᱆ || ᱇ || ᱈ || ᱉