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 DhurinBumthang ValleyofBumthang District in central Bhutan.[3][1] Brokkat is spoken by descendants of pastoral yakherd communities.[3]
Sino-Tibetan branches
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Western Himalayas (Himachal, Uttarakhand, Nepal, Sikkim) |
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Eastern Himalayas (Tibet, Bhutan, Arunachal) |
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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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Proto-languages |
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West Himalayish (Kanauric) |
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Bodish |
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Sino-Tibetan |
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Indo-Aryan |
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