摘要：Dukpa belongs to the Central Bodish group of Tibeto-Burman language family (Bradley 1997). The term Dukpa originated from the Tibetan word Drugpa. Drug means ‘dragon’ and pa means ‘resident’ which literally co-defined the meaning of ‘the resident of the dragon land’. The total population of Dukpa is not mentioned in the Census of India. They are also one of the smaller and lesser-known tribes living in the Buxa hill forest of Alipurduar district, West Bengal with a population of 1951 according to 2011 Census of Kalchini block of Alipurdaur district, West Bengal. The present paper is an attempt to describe the Consonantal system of Dukpa. Dukpa has twenty three/23 consonantal sounds including two semi- vowels. They are /p, ph, b, t, th, d, c, ch, k, kh, g, m, n, ?, ?, s, z, ?, h, r, l, w, and y/. Consonant combination in Dukpa can classified three categories these are: (i) consonant cluster (ii) consonant sequence and (iii) geminate. Dukpa has initial and medial consonant clusters that occur within the syllabic boundary. Two consonant clusters are present in the language i.e., initial and medial but final cluster remains absent. Consonantal sequences and geminates are only in medial position of a word.
