Brokpa language

Brokpa
Brokpa kay
RegionBhutan
Native speakers
5,000 (2006)[1]
Sino-Tibetan
Tibetan script
Language codes
ISO 639-3sgt
Glottologbrok1248
ELPBrokpake

The Brokpa language (Brokpa: Brokpakæ;[2] Dzongkha: དྲོག་པ་ཁ།, དྲོགཔ་ཁ།) is a Tibetic language spoken by around 5,000 people.[3] It is spoken by descendants of pastoral yakherd communities.[4]

  1. ^ Brokpa at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. ^ Wangdi, 2021, p. 5
  3. ^ van Driem 2001, p. 867
  4. ^ Cite error: The named reference vanDriem93 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).