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Sofiyum
Sofiyum is the only Lepcha Folk Music Band in the world . From the small Himalayan state of Sikkim - the band composes folk songs in Lepcha language . Lepcha language is an endangered spoken by barely 20000-30000 people in Sikkim and the hills of Darjeeling in West Bengal state of India. Once official language of the region - Lepcha ( know as Rong Aring to the Lepcha people) , has now been reduced to a language spoken barely even by its own people. Numerous efforts have been made to safeguard and protect the language from vanishing.
Sofiyum - literally in Lepcha language means breeze , it represents the soft cold breeze of the winter season as the Lepcha festival of Naamsoong( new year) begins.