![]() The dissertation concludes with a comprehensive account of the modern Sirijunga script, discussing typographic practice, as well as a review of all current digital Sirijunga typefaces to highlight the need for more and higher quality typefaces in the script. Then, through a comparative analysis of document marks from the script's three centuries of use, this dissertation analyses the reconstruction of the Sirijunga script through three defined periods. This dissertation first establishes a history of the Yakthung people, focusing on language politics which limited the space for typographic development and forced the script to fall out of use two times. There is little existing literature on the Sirijunga script and its development, with the subject often treated as a side note in a larger discussion on the Yakthung language or culture. This dissertation provides an original contribution in the understanding of the Sirijunga script's development. ![]() It is a script that has been overlooked by conventional printing practices, instead developing alongside language politics imposed by their acculturating nations, Nepal and Sikkim. The Sirijunga script is an important cultural artefact of indigenous identity for the Yakthung community living in the south eastern Himalayan belt.
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