The Brokkat language (
Dzongkha: བྲོཀ་ཁ་;
Wylie: ''Brok-kha''; also called "Brokskad" and "Jokay") is an endangered
spoken by about 300 people in the village of
Dhur in
Bumthang Valley
Bumthang Valley is the main inhabited valley in the Bumthang district of Bhutan.
History
Bumthang is one of the most beautiful and sacred valleys in Bhutan.
The main town in the valley is Jakar. Bhutan's only brewery, brewing Red Panda wheat ...
of
Bumthang District in central
Bhutan
Bhutan (; dz, འབྲུག་ཡུལ་, Druk Yul ), officially the Kingdom of Bhutan,), is a landlocked country in South Asia. It is situated in the Eastern Himalayas, between China in the north and India in the south. A mountainou ...
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[ Brokkat is spoken by descendants of pastoral yakherd communities.][
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See also
*Languages of Bhutan
There are two dozen languages of Bhutan, all members of the Tibeto-Burman language family except for Nepali, which is an Indo-Aryan language, and Bhutanese Sign Language. Dzongkha, the national language, is the only native language of Bhutan with ...
References
External links
Himalayan Languages Project
Languages of Bhutan
South Bodish languages
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