Paper Title
Syllable Structure in Sherpa Language

Abstract
This paper presents a view on syllable and the syllabic structure of Sherpa language which is spoken in Sikkim state of India and Nepal. The paper expresses the basic concept of Syllable and it is shown with the help Sherpa language. The Sherpas are one of the indigenous tribes of Sikkim having a distinct ethnic identity. The Sherpa language belongs to the Central Unit of the Bodish Section within the Bodic Subdivision of Sino-Tibetan. A sequence of phonemes with one peak of sonority is called a syllable. Being the higher unit than the speech sound (i.e. phoneme), the syllable is made up of one or more than one speech sound. Speech sounds are either vowels or consonants. Sherpa language have monosyllabic words, disyllabic words, trisyllabic words and tetrasyllabic words. We find that both the vowel ending and consonant ending syllabic words are there in the language.