Brokpa language
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Brokpa | |
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Brokpake | |
Region | Bhutan |
Native speakers
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5,000 (2006)[1] |
Tibetan alphabet | |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | sgt |
Glottolog | brok1248 [2] |
The Brokpa language (Tibetan: དྲོཀ་པ་ཁ་, Dzongkha: Bjokha), also called the "Mera-Sakteng language" after its speakers' home regions, is a Southern Tibetic language spoken by about 5000 people mainly in Mera and Sakteng Gewogs in the Sakteng Valley of Trashigang District in Easte Bhutan.[3][4] Brokpa is spoken by descendants of pastoral yakherd communities.[4]
Roger Blench has also recently named a language complex called Senge spoken in three villages northwest of Dirang in West Kameng district.[5]
Dondrup (1993:3) lists the following Brokpa villages.
- West Kameng district
- Lubrung
- Dirme
- Sumrang
- Nyokmadung
- Undra [6]
- Sengedrong
- Tawang district
- Lagam
- Mago
- Thingbu
- Lakuthang
- Bhutan
- Saklang
- Marale
The 1981 census counted 1855 Brokpa people in Arunachal Pradesh.
See also
References
- ↑ Brokpa at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
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- ↑ http://www.rogerblench.info/Language/South%20Asia/NEI/Bodish/Senge%20cluster/Sengres.htm
- ↑ first letter missing in book
- Dondrup, Rinchin 1993. Brokeh language guide. Itanagar: Directorate of Research, Arunachal Pradesh Government.
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