Brokpa language

Brokpa
Brokpake
Region	Bhutan
Native speakers	5,000 (2006)[1]
Language family	Sino-Tibetan Tibeto-Kanauri ? Bodish Tibetic Dzongkha–Lhokä Brokpa
Writing system	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

• Languages of Bhutan

References

1. Brokpa at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
2. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Brokpake". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
3. "Brokpake". Ethnologue Online. Dallas: SIL International. 2006. Retrieved 2011-01-18.
4. 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

• Dondrup, Rinchin 1993. Brokeh language guide. Itanagar: Directorate of Research, Arunachal Pradesh Government.

External links

• Himalayan Languages Project