Brokpa language
| Brokpa | |
|---|---|
| Brokpake | |
| Region | Bhutan |
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Native speakers
|
5,000 (2006) |
| Tibetan alphabet | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | |
| Glottolog | brok1248 |
the word brokpa has two parts. 'brok' and 'pa'. In Tibetic 'Brok' means mountain and 'pa' means native people. so the word 'Brokpa' refers to the language spoken by the people living on the mountains. 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. Brokpa is spoken by descendants of pastoral yakherd communities.
Roger Blench has also recently named a language complex called Senge spoken in three villages northwest of Dirang in West Kameng district.
Dondrup (1993:3) lists the following Brokpa villages.
The 1981 census counted 1855 Brokpa people in Arunachal Pradesh.
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