Brokpa language

The Brokpa language (Brokpa kay) (Dzongkha: དྲོག་པ་ཁ།, དྲོགཔ་ཁ།, Dr˚okpakha, Dr˚opkha), also called the Merak-Sakteng language after its speakers' home regions, is a Southern Tibetic language spoken by about 5,000 people mainly in Mera and Sakteng Gewogs in the Sakteng Valley of Trashigang District in Eastern Bhutan.[2][3] Brokpa is spoken by descendants of pastoral yakherd communities.[3]

Brokpa
Brokpa kay
RegionBhutan
Native speakers
5,000 (2006)[1]
Sino-Tibetan
Tibetan script
Language codes
ISO 639-3sgt
Glottologbrok1248
ELPBrokpake

The word brokpa has two parts. 'brok' and 'pa'. In Tibetic 'Brok' means pastoral land and 'pa' is a demonym, so the word 'Brokpa' refers to the language spoken by the people living on the mountains. Roger Blench has also recently named a language complex called Senge spoken in three villages northwest of Dirang in West Kameng district.[4]

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

The 1981 census counted 1,855 Brokpa people in Arunachal Pradesh.

See also

References
  1. Brokpa at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. "Brokpake". Ethnologue Online. Dallas: SIL International. 2006. Retrieved 2011-01-18.
  3. van Driem, George L. (1993). "Language Policy in Bhutan". London: SOAS. Archived from the original on 2010-11-01. Retrieved 2011-01-18.
  4. "Senge Cluster Language and Anthropology". rogerblench.info. Archived from the original on 2013-05-27. Retrieved 2012-09-20.
  5. first letter missing in book
  • Dondrup, Rinchin 1993. Brokeh language guide. Itanagar: Directorate of Research, Arunachal Pradesh Government.


This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.