Brokkat | |
Nativename: | བྲོཀ་ཁ Brok-kha |
Region: | Bhutan |
Familycolor: | Sino-Tibetan |
Speakers: | 300 |
Ref: | e18 |
Date: | 1993 |
Fam2: | Tibeto-Kanauri ? |
Fam3: | Bodish |
Fam4: | Tibetic |
Fam5: | Dzongkha–Lhokä |
Script: | Tibetan script |
Iso3: | bro |
Glotto: | brok1249 |
Glottorefname: | Dur Brokkat |
The Brokkat language (Dzongkha: བྲོཀ་ཁ་; Wylie: Brok-kha; also called "Brokskad" and "Jokay") is an endangered[1] Southern Tibetic language spoken by about 300 people in the village of Dhur in Bumthang Valley of Bumthang District in central Bhutan.[2] Brokkat is spoken by descendants of pastoral yakherd communities.[2]