Ethnic group group Brokpa image File Face of a Brokpa Woman.jpg 250px Brokpa Alternative names Minaro br Dakpa br Sangtengpa poptime 5,000 est. popplace Dha Hanu valley, Ladakh , India . langs Shina language Shina rels Tibetan Buddhism Tibetan Buddhist , B n , Animism Animist related Dard people The Brokpa are a small community of Dard people residing in the Dha Hanu valley about 163 km southwest of Leh in Ladakh . They are thought by some to be the purist descendants of the ancient Indo Europeans. ref http heritage key.com world nomadic tribesmen nazi icons who were aryans From Nomadic Tribesmen to Nazi Icons Who Were the Aryans? , heritage key.com ref ref Shubhangi Swarup. http www.openthemagazine.com article art culture the last of the aryans The Last of the Aryans , Open magazine, 6 August 2011. ref Dha and Hanu are two villages situated in the Dhahanu valley where they are found. They are also scattered in other parts of Ladakh. Part of the community are also located in the Deosai plateau just across the LOC in the Baltistan . Like the people of Gilgit , they speak an archaic form of the Shina language unintelligible with other dialects of Shina . They are originally said to have come from Chilas and settled in the area generations ago. They are predominantly caucasoid in contrast to the Tibeto Burman inhabitants of most of Ladakh . They are nominally Buddhist, however animist and B n rituals still survive. Minaro is an alternate ethnic name. Brokpa is the name given by the Ladakhi for the people. ref http www.ethnologue.com show language.asp?code bkk Ethnologue. Brokskat A language of India. Minaro ref The traditional Brokpa diet based on locally grown foods such as barley and hardy wheat prepared most often as tsampa sattu roasted flour . It takes in different ways. Other important foods include potatoes, radishes, turnips, and Gur Gur Cha, a brewed tea made .... Brokpa takes three meals a day Chin nana Breakfast Beh Lunch and Ganzang Dinner . Brokpa vary with respect ... more details
Infobox language name Brokpa region Bhutan familycolor Sino Tibetan speakers 5,000 date 2006 fam2 Tibeto Burman languages Tibeto Burman fam3 Tibeto Kanauri languages Tibeto Kanauri fam4 Bodish languages Bodish fam5 Tibetan languages Tibetan fam6 Central Tibetan languages Central Tibetan fam7 Southern script Tibetan script iso3 sgt The Brokpa language Dzongkha Wylie transliteration Wylie Drok pa kha also called Brokpa, Dakpa, Damilo, Dap, Drokpakay, Jobikha, Mera Sagtengpa, Meragsagstengkha, Mira Sagtengpa, and Sagtengpa is a Central Tibetan languages Southern Tibetan language spoken by about 5,000 people mainly in Merak Gewog Merak and Sakten Gewog s in the Sakten Valley of Trashigang District in eastern Bhutan . ref name SIL1 cite web url http www.ethnologue.com show language.asp?code sgt title Brokpake work Ethnologue Online publisher SIL International location Dallas year 2006 accessdate 2011 01 18 ref ref name vanDriem93 cite web url http repository.forcedmigration.org pdf ?pid fmo 3003 format PDF last van Driem first George L. authorlink George van Driem title Language Policy in Bhutan publisher School of Oriental and African Studies SOAS location London year 1993 accessdate 2011 01 18 ref Brokpa is spoken by descendants of pastoral yak herd communities. ref name vanDriem93 One historical Chinese name of Bhutanese, zh c p b l k b , might be cognate to this language. citation needed date February 2011 See also Languages of Bhutan References references External links http www.himalayanlanguages.org Himalayan Languages Project Languages of Bhutan st lang stub Bhutan stub Category Languages of Bhutan Category South Bodish languages Category Article Feedback 5 br Brokpakeg pms Lenga Brokpake ... more details
Orphan date February 2009 Merak is a settlement in the far east of Bhutan . It is located in Trashigang District . References Armington, S. 2002 Bhutan. 2nd ed. Melbourne Lonely Planet. coord 27.297 91.835 display title Category Populated places in Bhutan Bhutan geo stub The people are widely known as Brokpa, meaning highlander. The main activities of these highlanders are raising of the domestic animals. ... more details
Unreferenced stub auto yes date December 2009 Dah Hanu is the main village of the Brokpa of the Ladakh District of the India n States and territories of India State of Jammu and Kashmir . The Dards of Dah Hanu are nominally Buddhism Buddhist but also worship their own Pantheon of gods. They have an Caucasian race Indo European appearance in contrast to the predominant Tibeto Mongol inhabitants of most of Ladakh . Dha and Hanu are two villages situated in the Dhahanu valley, about 163 km southwest of Leh in Ladakh . Being on lower altitude Dhahanu is warmer than Leh. coord missing Jammu and Kashmir Category Ladakh Category Villages in Leh district JammuKashmir geo stub ru ... more details
Infobox Language name Dakpa region Bhutan familycolor Sino Tibetan speakers 1,000 ref ref name vanDriem93 date 1993 fam2 Tibeto Burman languages Tibeto Burman fam3 Tibeto Kanauri languages Tibeto Kanauri fam4 Bodish languages Bodish fam5 East Bodish languages East Bodish script Tibetan script iso3 dka The Dakpa language Dzongkha Wylie transliteration Wylie Dak pa kha also called Dakpakha and D akpakha is an East Bodish languages East Bodish language spoken by about 1,000 people in northern Trashigang District in eastern Bhutan , mainly in Chaleng, Phongmey Gewog Phongmey , Yobinang, Dangpholeng and Lengkhar near Radhi Gewog Radhi . ref name vanDriem93 cite web url http repository.forcedmigration.org pdf ?pid fmo 3003 format PDF last van Driem first George L. authorlink George van Driem title Language Policy in Bhutan publisher School of Oriental and African Studies SOAS location London year 1993 accessdate 2011 01 18 ref ref name SIL1 cite web url http www.ethnologue.com show language.asp?code dka title Dakpakha work Ethnologue Online publisher SIL International location Dallas year 2006 accessdate 2011 01 18 ref Van Driem 2001 describes Dakpa as the most divergent of Bhutan s East Bodish languages . ref name vanDriem01 cite book first George last van Driem authorlink George van Driem year 2001 title Languages of the Himalayas An Ethnolinguistic Handbook of the Greater Himalayan Region publisher Brill ref SIL International SIL reports that Dakpa may be dialect of Brokpa language Brokpake , and that it been influenced by Dzala language Dzalakha while Brokpake has not. ref name SIL1 See also Languages of Bhutan References references External links http www.himalayanlanguages.org Himalayan Languages Project Languages of Bhutan Category Languages of Bhutan Category East Bodish languages st lang stub Bhutan stub br Dakpakeg pms Lenga Dakpakha ... more details
br Dzongkha language Dzongkha , Adap language Adap , Brokkat language Brokkat , Brokpa language Brokpa , Chocangaca language Chocangaca , Lakha , Laya language Laya , Lunanakha Lunana . Southern ... more details
Coord 27 15 N 91 40 E display title Image Trashigang Bhutan location map.png thumb 350px Location of Trashigang dzongkhag within Bhutan Trashigang District Dzongkha Wylie transliteration Wylie Bkra shis sgang rdzong khag also spelled Tashigang is Bhutan s easternmost dzongkhag district . Culture The inhabitants of Trashigang district are mainly Sharchop s, which means easterner in Dzongkha , the national language. The Sharchops appear to mix India n and Tibetan people Tibetan blood whereas the Ngalop s of central and western Bhutan appear to be mainly Tibetan. Languages The dominant language of Trashigang is Tshangla language Tshangla Sharchopkha , the lingua franca of eastern Bhutan. Two significant minority languages are spoken in the far eastern region of the district the East Bodish languages East Bodish Dakpa language and the Southern Bodish Brokpa language . Dakpa is spoken by descendants of yak herding communities, and may in fact be a divergent dialect of Brokpa language Brokpake , heavily influenced by Dzala language Dzalakha . ref name SIL1 cite web url http www.ethnologue.com show language.asp?code dka title Dakpakha work Ethnologue Online publisher SIL International location Dallas year 2006 accessdate 2011 01 18 ref ref name vanDriem93 cite web url http repository.forcedmigration.org pdf ?pid fmo 3003 format PDF last van Driem first George L. authorlink George van Driem title Language Policy in Bhutan publisher School of Oriental and African Studies SOAS location London year 1993 accessdate 2011 01 18 ref Economy and education While it has no major urban area, Trashigang dzongkhag has the densest population in Bhutan. It used to be part of an important trade route connecting Assam to Tibet , and still is a primary route for Bhutanese trade with India. Towns include Trashigang , Radi, Bhutan Radi , Rangjung , and Phongmey . The district produces a lot of rice and lavender . There are several tourist packages to Bhutan that include trips ... more details
Taxobox image Himalayan Marmot at Tshophu Lake Bhutan 091007 b.jpg status LC status system iucn3.1 status ref ref name iucn IUCN2008 assessors Molur, S. & Shreshtha, T. K. year 2008 id 12826 title Marmota himalayana downloaded 6 January 2009 ref image caption Himalayan Marmot at Tshophu Lake, Bhutan altitude 4100 m. regnum Animalia phylum Chordata classis Mammal ia ordo Rodent ia familia Sciuridae genus Marmota subgenus Marmota subgenus Marmota species M. himalayana binomial Marmota himalayana binomial authority Brian Houghton Hodgson Hodgson , 1841 The Himalayan marmot is a marmot found in the Himalaya n regions ranging in elevation from convert 300 to 4500 m ft . They can be seen in the Deosai National Park Deosai plains in Pakistan and Ladakh in India . They are about the size of a large cat housecat , and live in colonies. Marmota himalayana is closely related to the woodchuck , the hoary marmot and the yellow bellied marmot . It has a dark chocolate brown coat with contrasting yellow patches on its face and chest. Herodotus Gold digging ants Research by the French people French ethnologist Michel Peissel makes a claim that the story of Herodotus Gold digging ants Gold digging ants reported by the Greeks Greek historian Herodotus , who lived in the 5th century BC, was founded on the golden Himalayan marmot of the Deosai National Park Deosai plateau and the habit of local tribes such as the Brokpa Minaro to collect the gold dust excavated from their burrows. ref Peissel, Michel. The Ants Gold The Discovery of the Greek El Dorado in the Himalayas . Collins, 1984. ISBN 978 0002725149. ref Gallery gallery File Himalayan marmots.jpg File Himalayan Marmot at Tshophu Lake Bhutan 091007 a.jpg gallery References Commons category Marmota himalayana reflist http www.webcitation.org query?url http www.geocities.com Yosemite 5112 marmot.html&date 2009 10 25 11 49 59 Himalayan Marmot Thorington, R. W. Jr. and R. S. Hoffman. 2005. Family Sciuridae. pp. 754 818 in Mammal S ... more details
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Infobox language name Dzongkha nativename File Dzongkha 02.svg 56px ethnicity Ngalop region Flagicon Bhutan Bhutan , Flagicon India Sikkim India speakers 170,000 date 2006 speakers2 Second language 470,000 cn date November 2011 familycolor Sino Tibetan fam2 Tibeto Burman languages Tibeto Burman fam3 Tibeto Kanauri languages Tibeto Kanauri fam4 Bodish languages Bodish fam5 Tibetan languages Tibetan fam6 Central Tibetan languages Central Tibetan fam7 Southern script Tibetan script nation flag Bhutan agency Dzongkha Development Commission iso1 dz iso2 dzo iso3 dzo map Dzongkha native language districts.svg mapcaption Districts of Bhutan where the Dzongkha language is spoken natively notice Indic Dzongkha bo textonly lang dz Wylie transliteration Wylie rdzong kha , span Jong k span , occasionally Ngalop kha, is the national language of Bhutan . ref name CoBE cite web url http www.constitution.bt TsaThrim 20Eng 20 A5 .pdf format PDF title Constitution of the Kingdom of Bhutan. Art. 1, 8 publisher Government of Bhutan date 2008 07 18 accessdate 2011 01 01 ref The word dzongkha means the language kha spoken in the dzong , dzong being the fortress like monasteries established throughout Bhutan by Shabdrung Ngawang Namgyal in the 17th century. Bhutani is not another name for Dzongkha, but the name of a Balochi language . The two are sometimes confused, even in some published ISO 639 codelists. Classification and related languages Linguistically, Dzongkha is a Tibetan languages South Tibetan language. It is closely related to and partially intelligible with Sikkimese language Sikkimese bo w nowiki nowiki Bras ljongs skad , the national language of the erstwhile kingdom of Sikkim and to some other Bhutanese languages such as Chocangacakha Cho cha na ca khyod ca nga ca kha , Brokpa language Brokpa me rag sag steng brog skad , Brokkat language Brokkat dur gyi brog skad , and Lakha la ka . Dzongkha bears a close linguistic relationship to J umowa spoken in the Chumbi valle ... more details
BLP sources date January 2011 Infobox person name Fida Hassnain image FidaHassnain.jpg birth date 1924 image size 200px caption birth place Srinagar , Kashmir death date death place religion Sufi Islam occupation prominent Kashmiri writer and Sufi Mystic spouse parents children Fida Hassnain b. 1924, Srinagar , Kashmir is a prominent Kashmiri writer and advanced Sufi Mystic. He studied law and received his Ll.D. in 1946. Career He started his career as Professor of History & Civics in the year 1947. In 1953 he joined Jammu and Kashmir State Government service. Before retiring in 1980, he held several important posts, such as that of Director of General Records & Archives Director of Archives, Archaeology , Research & Museums and State Editor of Gazetteers of India . He became a Lecturer at S.P. College in Srinagar . Later, he rose to the position of Professor of History and Research. He became the Director of the State Archives, Archaeology Research and Museums in 1954 and continued as such until his retirement in 1983. ref name FowlerJanuary2008 cite news last Fowler first Lilly date January 4, 2008 title For 17 years, what did Jesus do? work Star Tribune url http www.startribune.com lifestyle faith 13043331.html accessdate February 1, 2009 ref His study tours resulted in the salvaging of several hundred manuscripts in Arabic , Sanskrit and Persian language Persian , which were housed in the Archives and Oriental Research Libraries. As an archaeologist, he has conducted several excavations. In 1969 he was invited to Japan to speak on Buddhism . Since then he has visited Japan six times for lecture tours. His scholastic achievements have won for him the title of Doctor of Indology . Hassnain visited Ladakh Western Tibet in 1960 and has returned in official and unofficial capacities a number of times. His anthropological interest induced him to study the past of the Brokpa tribes, in whom he found traces of the Greek remnants of Alexander the Great . He has also main ... more details
pp move vandalism small yes pp move indef Coord 27.417 90.435 region BT format dms display title Infobox country native name big style font size 120 big br br Brug Rgyal khab small Wylie transliteration Wylie small br Dru G khap conventional long name Kingdom of Bhutan common name Bhutan image flag Flag of Bhutan.svg alt flag image coat Bhutan emblem.svg alt coat symbol type Emblem national anthem Druk tsendhen Druk Tsendhen image map Bhutan orthographic projection .svg alt map map caption capital Thimphu latd 27 latm 28.0 latNS N capital s latitude longd 89 longm 38.5 longEW E capital s longitude largest city capital official languages Dzongkha demonym Bhutanese government type Unitary state Unitary parliamentary democracy and Constitutional monarchy leader title1 List of rulers of Bhutan King leader name1 Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck leader title2 List of Prime Ministers of Bhutan Prime Minister leader name2 Jigme Y. Thinley sovereignty type History of Bhutan Formation sovereignty note Early 17th century established event1 Wangchuk Dynasty established date1 17 December 1907 established event2 Constitutional Monarchy established date2 2007 area rank 135th area magnitude 1 E10 area km2 38,394 area sq mi 14,824 38,394 km2 area footnote ref name FYP9 ref name official percent water 1.1 population estimate 708,427 sfn CIA The World Factbook population estimate rank 165th population estimate year 2011 population census 634,982 ref name census cite web url http unstats.un.org unsd demographic meetings wshops Thailand 15Oct07 docs Countries presentations Bhutan Results.ppt title Population and Housing Census of Bhutan 2005 format PPT publisher UN year 2005 accessdate 2010 01 05 ref population census year 2005 population density km2 18.0 691141 38394 population density sq mi 46.6 691141 14824 Do not remove per WP MOSNUM population density rank 154th GDP PPP 3.875 billion ref name imf2 cite web url http www.imf.org external pubs ft weo 2011 01 weodata weorept. ... more details
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