Brokskat
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Not to be confused with the Brokkat language of Bhutan.
Brokskat (Tibetan: འབྲོག་སྐད་, Wylie: ’brog skad)[2] or Minaro[3] is an endangered Indo-Aryan language spoken by the Brokpa people in the lower Indus Valley of Ladakh, India and its surrounding areas.[1][4]
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Brokskat | |
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Minaro | |
Native to | India, Pakistan |
Region | Ladakh, Baltistan |
Ethnicity | Brokpa (Minaro) |
Native speakers | (about 3,000 cited 1996)[1] |
Indo-European
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Tibetan script, Nastaliq script[citation needed] | |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | bkk |
Glottolog | brok1247 |
ELP | Brokskat |
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It is an eastern Dardic language and the oldest surviving member of the ancient Dardic language.[5] It is considered a divergent variety of Shina,[6] but it is not mutually intelligible with the other dialects of Shina.[7] It is only spoken by 2,858 people in Ladakh and 400 people in the adjoining Baltistan, part of Pakistan-administered territory of Gilgit-Baltistan, within the larger disputed Kashmir region.[8]