Brokskat Explained
Brokskat [1] or Minaro[2] is an endangered Indo-Aryan language spoken by the Brokpa people in the lower Indus Valley of Ladakh and its surrounding areas.[3] It is the oldest surviving member of the ancient Dardic language. It is considered a divergent variety of Shina,[4] but it is not mutually intelligible with the other dialects of Shina.[5] It is only spoken by 2,858 people in Ladakh and 400 people in the adjoining Baltistan, part of Pakistan-administered Kashmir.[6]
Vocabulary
Caption textEnglish | Brokskat in Roman script | Brokskat in Bodyig script |
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Water | wa | ཝུའ་ |
Fire | ghur | གཱུར |
Sun | Suri | སུརིའ་ |
Moon | gyun | གྱུན |
Mountain | chur | ཆུར |
Human | mush | མུཤ |
Land | bun | བུན |
Boy | byo | བྱོ |
Girl | molay | མོལེའ་ |
Baby | bubu | བུའབུའ |
Knife | cutter | ཀཊའར | |
Verb tenses
Caption textEnglish | Brokskat -present tense | Brokskat-past tense | Broskat-future tense | Imperative |
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To go | byas | go | byungs | boyai |
To stand | autheis | authait | authiyungs | authi |
To Break | phitais | phitaiat | phitiaungs | phitai |
To open | aunis | auniat | auniungs | auni |
To laugh | hazis | hazit | haziungs | hazi |
To sit | bazhais | bazhit | bazhiungs | bazhi |
To walk | zazis | zazit | zaziungs | zazi |
To throw | faitis | faitiat | fatiungs | fati |
To look | skis | skait | skiungs | ski |
Cut | chhinis | chinait | chhiniungs | chhini |
To Count | gyanis | gyaniat | gyaniungs | gyani | |
Notes and References
- Book: Bray, John . Corvée transport labour in 19th and early 20th century Ladakh: a study in continuity and change . Martijn van Beek . Fernanda Pirie . Modern Ladakh: Anthropological Perspectives on Continuity and Change . BRILL . 2008 . 978-90-474-4334-6 . https://books.google.com/books?id=ZO95DwAAQBAJ&pg=PA46 . 46.
- Bhagabati . Dikshit Sarma . 2018-08-03 . Onstage and Offstage . Economic and Political Weekly . 53 . 31 . The mother tongue of the Brokpa is Minaro, an Indo–Aryan language, though their vocabulary heavily borrows from Ladakhi. . academia.edu.
- Book: Jain . Danesh . The Indo-Aryan Languages . Cardona . George . 2007-07-26 . Routledge . 978-1-135-79711-9 . 889 . en.
- Book: Ethnologue : languages of the world . 2005 . Dallas, Tex. : SIL International . Internet Archive . 978-1-55671-159-6 . A very divergent variety of Shina.
- Book: Jain . Danesh . The Indo-Aryan Languages . Cardona . George . 2007-07-26 . Routledge . 978-1-135-79711-9 . And is not mutually intelligible with the other shina language.
- Web site: 2022-03-16 . بروسکت: پاکستان میں ایک نئی زبان دریافت . 2022-12-30 . Independent Urdu . ur.