Brokkat language

Brokkat
Brokkat
བྲོཀ་ཁ; Brok-kha
Region	Bhutan
Native speakers	(300 cited 1993)
Language family	Sino-Tibetan Tibeto-Kanauri ? Bodish Tibetic Dzongkha–Lhokä Brokkat; ; ; ; ;
Writing system	Tibetan script
Language codes
ISO 639-3	bro
Glottolog	brok1249
ELP	Brokkat

The Brokkat language (Dzongkha: བྲོཀ་ཁ་; Wylie: Brok-kha; also called "Brokskad" and "Jokay") is an endangered^[2] Southern Tibetic language spoken by about 300 people in the village of Dhur in Bumthang Valley of Bumthang District in central Bhutan.^[3]^[1] Brokkat is spoken by descendants of pastoral yakherd communities.^[3]

Phonology

Brokkat consonants
		Labial	Alveolar	Retroflex	Palatal	Velar	Glottal
Plosive	voiceless	p	t	ʈ		k
	voiceless aspirated	pʰ	tʰ	ʈʰ		kʰ
	voiced	b	d	ɖ		ɡ
	voiced aspirated	bʱ	dʱ	ɖʱ		ɡʱ
Affricate	voiceless		t͡s		t͡ɕ
	voiceless aspirated		t͡sʰ		t͡ɕʰ
	voiced		d͡z		d͡ʑ
	voiced aspirated		d͡zʱ		d͡ʑʱ
Fricative	voiceless		s		ɕ		h
Fricative	voiced		z		ʑ		ɦ
Nasal		m	n		ɲ	ŋ
Trill			r
Approximant		w	l		j

^ ^a ^b Brokkat at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
^ Moseley, Christopher (2007). Encyclopedia of the World's Endangered Languages. Curzon language family series. Psychology Press. pp. 314, 324. ISBN 978-0-7007-1197-0.
^ ^a ^b van Driem, George L. (1993). "Language Policy in Bhutan". London: SOAS. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2010-11-01. Retrieved 2011-01-18.

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