The Brokpa (Tibetan: འབྲོག་པ་, Wylie: ’brog pa, THL: drok pa), sometimes referred to as Minaro, are a small ethnic group mostly found in the union territory...
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The Brokpa language (Brokpa: Brokpakæ; Dzongkha: དྲོག་པ་ཁ།, དྲོགཔ་ཁ།) is a Tibetic language spoken by around 5,000 people. It is spoken by descendants...
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Brokpa, Drokpa, Dard and Shin is a category of Scheduled Tribes under the Indian constitution. The category contains tribes who speak Dardic languages...
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Aryan Valley (section Brokpas)
Ladakh in India. It is inhabited by Brokpa people of Dardic origin. Until its absorption into the Maryul kingdom, Brokpa chiefs wielded nominal autonomy in...
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(7 groups): Dzongkha Lhoke Choča-ngača (also called Tsamang-Tsakhaling) Brokpa (Mera Sakteng pastoralists’ dialect) Dur pastoralists’ dialect Lakha or...
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Dah (also known as Dha) and Hanu are two villages of the Brokpa of the Leh District of the Indian union territory of Ladakh. Until 2010, these were the...
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Khampa Tibetan Lakha Nyen 'Olekha (Monpa) Brokkat Chocangacakha Chali Dakpa Brokpa Nepali Nepali Nepali Lepcha Lhokpu Kheng Gongduk Tshangla (Sharchop) There...
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Bengali people Bhil people Bhojpuri people Bishnupriya Manipuri people Brokpa people Chakma people Deccani people Dhivehi people Dogra people Garhwali...
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most eastern of these languages and in some of its dialects such as the Brokpa of Dah and Hanu and the dialect of Dras, it impinges upon the area of the...
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Tibetan Lakha Nyenkha 'Olekha (Monpa) Brokkat Chocangacakha Chali Dakpa Brokpa Nepali Nepali Nepali Lepcha Lhokpu Kheng Gongduk Tshangla (Sharchopkha)...
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that Takpa may be a dialect of the Brokpa language and that it been influenced by the Dzala language whereas Brokpa has not. Takpa is mutually unintelligible...
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Sikkimese, and to some other Bhutanese languages such as Chocha Ngacha, Brokpa, Brokkat and Lakha. It has a more distant relationship to Standard Tibetan...
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marmot of the Deosai Plateau and the habit of local tribes such as the Brokpa to collect the gold dust excavated from their burrows. Some historians believe...
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priests, in Kashmir, photographed by an unknown photographer in the 1890s Brokpa women from Kargil, northern Ladakh, in local costumes Kashmir's economy...
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known as Kampa. Later settlements were established by Mons from Kullu and Brokpas who originated from Gilgit. Around the 1st century, Ladakh was a part of...
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’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...
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Awadhi people Banjara people Bhojpuri people Bengali people Bhil people Brokpa people Chitrali people Chittagonian people Deccani people Dhivehi people...
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in which L-M11 occurs at 68% is an exception. L2a2 is around 62.7% among Brokpa of Ladakh. L-M20 was found at 38% in the Bharwad caste and 21% in Charan...
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in the Dah Hanu region, also known as the "Aryan Valley", populated by Brokpa people. Administratively, it is treated as a hamlet of the Silmo village...
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article on the Hunza River Valley that inspired Carl Barks' story Tralla La. Brokpa people Hunza Valley Kalash people Nagar Valley "Burushaski". Ethnologue...
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force. Brun, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Suri Jagek Burusho people Dardic people Brokpa people Animism and ancestor worship: Witzel (2004, p. 2): "There is the...
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hierarchy and practice wet-rice and dry-rice agriculture. They include the Brokpa, Lepcha, and Doya tribes as well as the descendants of slaves who were brought...
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(Scheduled Tribes) Order (Amendment) Act, 1991. Bakarwal Balti Beda Bot, Boto Brokpa, Drokpa, Dard and Shin Changpa Gaddi Garra Gujjar and Bakarwal Mon Purigpa...
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belonging to the buttercup family, have been used as arrow poisons. The Brokpa in Ladakh use Aconitum napellus on their arrows to hunt Siberian ibex; they...
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the husbands of one wife are brothers. Polyandry is also known among the Brokpa people of Merak and Sakten in eastern Trashigang. A well-known example of...
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Journal Blog. Retrieved November 7, 2017. "Merak and Sakteng – The Land of Brokpas". Wind Horse Tours online. Archived from the original on 2011-09-27. Retrieved...
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national language of the Kingdom of Bhutan. Other languages spoken include Brokpa, Dzala, Chali Chocangacakha, Dakpa language, Khengkha language, Nepali language...
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the ethnic group. A small minority of related ethnic groups, chiefly the Brokpa community, continue to practice Buddhism and Hinduism, though the majority...
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related dialects spoken in the villages of Nyukmadung and Lubrang and the Brokpa language spoken by nomads. Other languages include Dirang (also known as...
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the Leh district of Ladakh, India. It is the most prominent of all the Brokpa settlements, other than Dah, it has six hamlets: Biama(or phunder) , Baldes...
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