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Brokkat language

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Region
  
Writing system
  
Tibetan script

Glottolog
  
brok1249

Native speakers
  
300 (1993)

ISO 639-3
  
bro

Language family
  
Sino-TibetanTibeto-Kanauri ?BodishTibeticDzongkha–LhokäBrokkat

The Brokkat language (Dzongkha: བྲོཀ་ཁ་; Wylie: Brok-kha; also called "Brokskad" and "Jokay") is an endangered Southern Tibetic language spoken by about 300 people in the village of Dhur in Bumthang Valley of Bumthang District in central Bhutan. Brokkat is spoken by descendants of pastoral yakherd communities.

References

Brokkat language Wikipedia


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