Brokskat
[aka Brokpa, Brokpa of Dah-Hanu, Dokskat]Classification: Indo-European
·threatened
- DATE OF INFO
- 1996 or earlier
- PLACES
- India
- LOCATION DESCRIPTION
Around the village of Garkhon in Ladakh
Language metadata
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Brokpa, Brokpa of Dah-Hanu, Dokskat, Kyango, Dardu, Hanu |
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Indo-European, Indo-Iranian, Indo-Aryan, Northwestern Zone |
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ISO 639-3 |
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bkk |
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Language information by source
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Information from: “Dardic” (818-894) . Elena Bashir (2003) , George Cardona and Dhanesh Jain · London & New York: Routledge
Information from: “Dardic” (818-894) . Elena Bashir (2003) , George Cardona and Dhanesh Jain · London & New York: Routledge
Information from: “Brokskat Grammar” . N. Ramaswami (1982) Mysore: Central Institute of Indian Languages
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Threatened
20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
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~2000
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"[The number of Brokskat speakers] according to 1961 Census is 544. Now the number of speakers of this language is approximately 2000 according to the informant [Gulam Rahim]."
- DATE OF INFO
- 1982
- LANGUAGE CONTEXT COMMENTS
"[Author's consultant Gulam Rahim] knows Urdu, Balti and Ladakhi besides his mother tongue Brokskat."
- PLACES
- India
- LOCATION DESCRIPTION
"Brokskat is spoken in and around the village Garkhon of Ladakh district. It is about 70 Kms. North-East of Kargil. Grierson has mentioned it as Brokpa of Dah-Hanu. Dah and Hanu are two villages but in Hanu, there are now only Ladakhi speakers and not Brokskat speakers... There are other Brokskat speaking villages like Darchiks, Chulichan, Gurgurdo, Batalik and Dah around Garkhon within the radius of 15 Kms."
Information from: “The World Atlas of Language Structures” . Bernard Comrie and David Gil and Martin Haspelmath and Matthew S. Dryer · Oxford University Press
