Brokpa language

Brokpa
Brokpake
Region Bhutan
Native speakers
 5,000 (2006)[1]
Sino-Tibetan
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.

The 1981 census counted 1855 Brokpa people in Arunachal Pradesh.

See also

References

  1. ↑ Brokpa at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Brokpake". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  3. ↑ "Brokpake". Ethnologue Online. Dallas: SIL International. 2006. Retrieved 2011-01-18.
  4. 1 2 van Driem, George L. (1993). "Language Policy in Bhutan" (PDF). London: SOAS. Retrieved 2011-01-18.
  5. ↑ http://www.rogerblench.info/Language/South%20Asia/NEI/Bodish/Senge%20cluster/Sengres.htm
  6. ↑ first letter missing in book

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