The Brokkat language (
Dzongkha
Dzongkha (; ) is a Sino-Tibetan language that is the official and national language of Bhutan. It is written using the Tibetan script.
The word means "the language of the fortress", from ' "fortress" and ' "language". , Dzongkha had 171,080 n ...
: བྲོཀ་ཁ་;
Wylie: ''Brok-kha''; also called "Brokskad" and "Jokay") is an endangered
spoken by about 300 people in the village of
Dhur
Dhur or D°ur (Dzongkha: དུར་; Wylie: ''dur'') is a town in western Chhoekhor Gewog, Bumthang District
Bumthang District (Dzongkha: བུམ་ཐང་རྫོང་ཁག་; Wylie: ''Bum-thang rzong-khag'') is one of the 20 dzon ...
in
Bumthang Valley of
Bumthang District
Bumthang District (Dzongkha: བུམ་ཐང་རྫོང་ཁག་; Wylie: ''Bum-thang rzong-khag'') is one of the 20 dzongkhag (districts) comprising Bhutan. It is the most historic dzongkhag if the number of ancient temples and sacred s ...
in central
Bhutan.
[ Brokkat is spoken by descendants of pastoral ]yak
The domestic yak (''Bos grunniens''), also known as the Tartary ox, grunting ox or hairy cattle, is a species of long-haired domesticated cattle found throughout the Himalayan region of the Indian subcontinent, the Tibetan Plateau, Kachin Sta ...
herd communities.[
]
See also
* Languages of Bhutan
References
External links
Himalayan Languages Project
Languages of Bhutan
South Bodish languages
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