Brokskat

Brokskat
Minaro
Native toIndia, Pakistan
RegionLadakh, Baltistan
EthnicityBrokpa (Minaro)
Native speakers
(about 3000 cited 1996)
Tibetan script, Nastaliq script[citation needed]
Language codes
ISO 639-3bkk
Glottologbrok1247
ELPBrokskat

Brokskat (Tibetan: འབྲོག་སྐད་, Wylie: ’brog skad) or Minaro is an endangered Indo-Aryan language spoken by the Brokpa people in the lower Indus Valley of Ladakh and its surrounding areas. It is the oldest surviving member of the ancient Dardic language. It is considered a divergent variety of Shina, but it is not mutually intelligible with the other dialects of Shina. It is only spoken by 2,858 people in Ladakh and 400 people in the adjoining Baltistan, part of Pakistan-administered Kashmir.

Endomym

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



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