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Brokpa language

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Region
  
Bhutan

Writing system
  
Tibetan alphabet

Glottolog
  
brok1248

Native speakers
  
5,000 (2006)

ISO 639-3
  
sgt

Language family
  
Sino-Tibetan Tibeto-Kanauri ? Bodish Tibetic Dzongkha–Lhokä Brokpa

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. Brokpa is spoken by descendants of pastoral yakherd communities.

Roger Blench has also recently named a language complex called Senge spoken in three villages northwest of Dirang in West Kameng district.

Dondrup (1993:3) lists the following Brokpa villages.

  • West Kameng district
  • Lubrung
  • Dirme
  • Sumrang
  • Nyokmadung
  • Undra
  • Sengedrong
  • Tawang district
  • Lagam
  • Mago
  • Thingbu
  • Lakuthang
  • Bhutan
  • Saklang
  • Marale

    • The 1981 census counted 1855 Brokpa people in Arunachal Pradesh.

    References

    Brokpa language Wikipedia
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