Brokskat

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Brokskat
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Native name Minaro in Nastaliq
Native toIndia, Pakistan
RegionLadakh, Baltistan
EthnicityBrokpa
Native speakers
(2858 cited 1981)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3bkk
Glottologbrok1247

Brokskat, or Minaroskat is an Indo-Aryan language mainly spoken in the Dah Hanu region of Ladakh and the Ganokh village of Baltistan.[2][3] It is an endangered language spoken by only 2858 people in Ladakh, India and 400 people in Ganokh, Baltistan, Pakistan.[4][5]

Vocabulary

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English Brokskat in Roman script Brokskat in Bodyig script
Water wa ཝུའ་
Fire ghur གཱུར
Sun Suri སུརིའ་
Moon gyun གྱུན
Mountain chur ཆུར
Human mush མུཤ
Land bun བུན
Boy byo བྱོ
Girl molay མོལེའ་
Baby bubu བུའབུའ
Knife cutter ཀཊའར

Verb tenses

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English Brokskat -present tense Brokskat-past tense Broskat-future tense Imperative
To go byas go byungs boyai
To stand autheis authait authiyungs authi
To Break phitais phitaiat phitiaungs phitai
To open aunis auniat auniungs auni
To laugh hazis hazit haziungs hazi
To sit bazhais bazhit bazhiungs bazhi
To walk zazis zazit zaziungs zazi
To throw faitis faitiat fatiungs fati
To look skis skait skiungs ski
Cut chhinis chinait chhiniungs chhini
To Count gyanis gyaniat gyaniungs gyani

References

  1. ^ https://www.efsas.org/Languages%20of%20Erstwhile%20State%20of%20Jammu%20and%20Kashmir.pdf[bare URL PDF]
  2. ^ Jain, Danesh; Cardona, George (2007-07-26). The Indo-Aryan Languages. Routledge. p. 889. ISBN 978-1-135-79711-9.
  3. ^ "بروسکت: پاکستان میں ایک نئی زبان دریافت". Independent Urdu (in Urdu). 2022-03-16. Retrieved 2022-10-17.
  4. ^ "How Dardistan became one of the most multilingual places on Earth | Aeon Essays".
  5. ^ Lyovin, Anatole; Lyovin, Associate Professor of Linguistics Anatole V. (1997). An Introduction to the Languages of the World. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-508116-9.