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]
| Brokkat | |
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| བྲོཀ་ཁ Brok-kha | |
| Region | Bhutan |
Native speakers | (300 cited 1993)[1] |
Language family | |
Writing system | Tibetan script |
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| ISO 639-3 | bro |
| Glottolog | brok1249 |
| ELP | Brokkat |
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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| Proto-languages |
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| West Himalayish (Kanauric) |
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| Bodish |
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| Tamangic |
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Languages of Bhutan | |||||||||||||
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| Sino-Tibetan |
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