Rongn.adj.

1840 A. Campbell in Jrnl. Asiatic Soc. Bengal 9 i. 379 The real Lepcha, or Rong proper, has no tradition whatever..connected with the advent of his tribe into this part of the world.

1854 J. D. Hooker Himalayan Jrnls. I. v. 127 They, or at least some of their tribes, call themselves Rong, and Arratt, and their country Dijong.

1876 G. B. Mainwaring Gram. Róng (Lepcha) Lang. p. vii The proper name of the Lepchas, as they call themselves, is—Róng.

1909 G. A. Grierson Ling. Surv. India III. i. 233 The Lepchas are considered as the oldest inhabitants of Sikkim... They call themselves Róng.

1938 G. Gorer Himalayan Village i. 35 The Lepchas do not call themselves Lepchas; they call themselves Rong.

1996 A. K. Das in M. K. Raha Dimensions Human Soc. & Culture 503 Hermanns believes that the hunting component of the Rong (Lepcha) are the primitive indigenous inhabitants of the forests of Sikkim.

1892 A. Grünwedel (title) A Róng–English glossary.

1909 G. A. Grierson Ling. Surv. India III. i. 233 The numbers of speakers of Róng in Sikkim and Darjeeling were..estimated.

1998 A. Dalby Dict. Langs. 628/2 In Sikkim another Sino-Tibetan language exists alongside Tibetan: Lepcha or Rong, which has a local literary tradition and a distinctive alphabet.

1876 G. B. Mainwaring Gram. Róng (Lepcha) Lang. i. 1 The Róng (Lepcha) Alphabet may be divided into two parts.

1909 G. A. Grierson Ling. Surv. India III. i. 233 Róng literature comprises Buddhistic and other religious books.

1994 S. S. Shashi Encycl. Indian Tribes (1997) V. v. 130 The Rong language belongs to the pure group, that is to say, to the pronounless Himalayan group of the Tibeto-Burman languages.