| Brokkat | |
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| བྲོཀ་ཁ Brok-kha | |
| Region | Bhutan |
Native speakers | (300 cited 1993) [1] |
| Tibetan script | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 |
bro |
| Glottolog |
brok1249 |
| ELP | Brokkat |
The Brokkat language ( Dzongkha: བྲོཀ་ཁ་; Wylie: Brok-kha; also called "Brokskad" and "Jokay") is an endangered [2] Southern Tibetic language spoken by about 300 people in the village of Dhur in Bumthang Valley of Bumthang District in central Bhutan. [3] [1] Brokkat is spoken by descendants of pastoral yakherd communities. [3]
See also
References
- ^ a b Brokkat at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
- ^ Moseley, Christopher (2007). Encyclopedia of the World's Endangered Languages. Curzon language family series. Psychology Press. pp. 314, 324. ISBN 978-0-7007-1197-0.
- ^ a b van Driem, George L. (1993). "Language Policy in Bhutan". London: SOAS. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2010-11-01. Retrieved 2011-01-18.
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| Brokkat | |
|---|---|
| བྲོཀ་ཁ Brok-kha | |
| Region | Bhutan |
Native speakers | (300 cited 1993) [1] |
| Tibetan script | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 |
bro |
| Glottolog |
brok1249 |
| ELP | Brokkat |
The Brokkat language ( Dzongkha: བྲོཀ་ཁ་; Wylie: Brok-kha; also called "Brokskad" and "Jokay") is an endangered [2] Southern Tibetic language spoken by about 300 people in the village of Dhur in Bumthang Valley of Bumthang District in central Bhutan. [3] [1] Brokkat is spoken by descendants of pastoral yakherd communities. [3]
See also
References
- ^ a b Brokkat at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
- ^ Moseley, Christopher (2007). Encyclopedia of the World's Endangered Languages. Curzon language family series. Psychology Press. pp. 314, 324. ISBN 978-0-7007-1197-0.
- ^ a b van Driem, George L. (1993). "Language Policy in Bhutan". London: SOAS. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2010-11-01. Retrieved 2011-01-18.
External links
Sino-Tibetan branches | |||||
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| Western
Himalayas ( Himachal, Uttarakhand, Nepal, Sikkim) |
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| Eastern
Himalayas ( Tibet, Bhutan, Arunachal) | |||||
| Myanmar and Indo-Burmese border |
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| East and Southeast Asia |
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|
Dubious (possible
isolates) ( Arunachal) |
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| Proposed groupings | |||||
| Proto-languages | |||||
Italics indicates single languages that are also considered to be separate branches. | |||||
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| This Sino-Tibetan languages-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |
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| This article about Bhutan is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |