Brokskat
Minaro
Native toIndia, Pakistan
RegionLadakh, Baltistan
EthnicityBrokpa (Minaro)
Native speakers
(about 3,000 cited 1996)[1]
Tibetan script, Nastaliq script
Language codes
ISO 639-3bkk
Glottologbrok1247
ELPBrokskat

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 and its surrounding areas.[1][4] It is 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 Kashmir.[8]

Endomym

Vocabulary

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EnglishBrokskat in Roman scriptBrokskat in Bodyig script
Waterwaཝུའ་
Fireghurགཱུར
SunSuriསུརིའ་
Moongyunགྱུན
Mountainchurཆུར
Humanmushམུཤ
Landbunབུན
Boybyoབྱོ
Girlmolayམོལེའ་
Babybubuབུའབུའ
Knifecutterཀཊའར

Verb tenses

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EnglishBrokskat -present tenseBrokskat-past tenseBroskat-future tenseImperative
To gobyasgobyungsboyai
To standautheisauthaitauthiyungsauthi
To Breakphitaisphitaiatphitiaungsphitai
To openaunisauniatauniungsauni
To laughhazishazithaziungshazi
To sitbazhaisbazhitbazhiungsbazhi
To walkzaziszazitzaziungszazi
To throwfaitisfaitiatfatiungsfati
To lookskisskaitskiungsski
Cutchhinischinaitchhiniungschhini
To Countgyanisgyaniatgyaniungsgyani

References

  1. 1 2 Jain, Danesh; Cardona, George (2007-07-26). The Indo-Aryan Languages. Routledge. p. 889. ISBN 978-1-135-79711-9.
  2. Bray, John (2008). "Corvée transport labour in 19th and early 20th century Ladakh: a study in continuity and change". In Martijn van Beek; Fernanda Pirie (eds.). Modern Ladakh: Anthropological Perspectives on Continuity and Change. BRILL. p. 46. ISBN 978-90-474-4334-6.
  3. Bhagabati, Dikshit Sarma (2018-08-03). "Onstage and Offstage". Economic and Political Weekly. 53 (31) via academia.edu. The mother tongue of the Brokpa is Minaro, an Indo–Aryan language, though their vocabulary heavily borrows from Ladakhi.
  4. Ethnologue, 15th Edition, SIL International, 2005, p. 357 via archive.org, Minaro is an alternate ethnic name. "Brokpa" is the name given by the Ladakhi for the people. "Brokskat" is the language.
  5. Ethnologue, 15th Edition, SIL International, 2005, p. 357 via archive.org, Brokskat' is the language. This is the oldest surviving member of the ancient Dardic language.
  6. Ethnologue : languages of the world. Internet Archive. Dallas, Tex. : SIL International. 2005. ISBN 978-1-55671-159-6. A very divergent variety of Shina{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
  7. Jain, Danesh; Cardona, George (2007-07-26). The Indo-Aryan Languages. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-135-79711-9. And is not mutually intelligible with the other shina language
  8. "بروسکت: پاکستان میں ایک نئی زبان دریافت". Independent Urdu (in Urdu). 2022-03-16. Retrieved 2022-12-30.


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