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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{Short description|Endangered Sino-Tibetan language of India}}<br />
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{{Infobox language<br />
|name = Zangskari<br />
|altname = Zanskari, Zaskari, Zangs-dkar, Z’angkar<br />
|nativename =<br />
|pronunciation = <br />
|states = India<br />
|region = [[Zanskar]] ([[Ladakh]])<br />
|speakers = 12,000<br />
|date = 2000<br />
|ref = e18<br />
|familycolor =Sino-Tibetan<br />
|fam2=[[Tibeto-Kanauri languages|Tibeto-Kanauri]] ?<br />
|fam3=[[Bodish languages|Bodish]]<br />
|fam4=[[Tibetic languages|Tibetic]]<br />
|fam5=[[Ladakhi–Balti languages|Ladakhi–Balti]]<br />
|script =[[Tibetan script]]<br />
|iso3 = zau<br />
|glotto=zang1248<br />
|glottorefname=Zangskari<br />
}}<br />
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'''Zangskari''' (Zanskari, Zaskari) is an [[Endangered language|endangered]] [[Tibetic language]]. It is mostly spoken in [[Zanskar]] in [[Union territory|Union Territory]] of [[Ladakh]], [[India]], and also by [[Buddhism|Buddhists]] in the upper reaches of [[Lahaul]], [[Himachal Pradesh]], and [[Paddar]], [[Jammu and Kashmir (union territory)|Jammu and Kashmir]].<ref>{{Cite book|last=Beek, Martijn van Pirie, Fernanda|url=http://worldcat.org/oclc/896146052|title=Modern Ladakh : anthropological perspectives on continuity and change|date=2008|publisher=Brill|isbn=978-90-04-16713-1|oclc=896146052}}</ref> It is written using the [[Tibetan script]].<ref name="Zangskari SS">{{cite web|title=Zangskari|url=http://scriptsource.org/cms/scripts/page.php?item_id=language_detail&uid=2353hagba6|access-date=25 August 2012|publisher=Script Source}}</ref><br />
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Zangskari is divided into four homogenous groups, namely Oot (''Stod'') or Upper Zanskari spoken along the [[Doda River]], Zhung (''Gžun'') or Central Zanskari mostly spoken in [[Fadum valley]], Sham (''Gšam'') or Lower Zanskari spoken along the lower portions of [[Zanskar River]] and lastly Lungnak (''Luŋnag'') along the upper Zanskar River region.<ref>{{cite book |title=Himalayan Languages and Linguistics: Studies in Phonology, Semantics, Morphology and Syntax|author=Mark Turin|author2=Bettina Zeisler |publisher=BRILL |year=2011|isbn=978-9004194489 |page=243 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5MoDCJP3VPUC&q=Zanskari+&pg=PA305 }}</ref><br />
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== References ==<br />
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==Further reading==<br />
*{{cite book |title=Peoples of the Buddhist World: A Christian Prayer Diary|author=Paul Hattaway|chapter=Zangskari|publisher=William Carey Library |year=2004|isbn=0878083618 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OzEOKNPsv2EC&q=Zanskari+language&pg=PA361 |ref=Ha }}<br />
*{{cite book |title=Language in South Asia|chapter=Tibeto-Burman|author=Braj B. Kachru|author2=Yamuna Kachru |author3=S. N. Sridhar |publisher=Cambridge University Press|year=2008|isbn=978-0521781411|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=O2n4sFGDEMYC&q=Zanskari+language&pg=PA43 |ref=Ka }}<br />
*{{citation | title=Glossary of Zanskari-Ladakhi Words | author=Jonathan Mingle | pages= 405–409 | publisher=St. Martin's Press |year=2015|url=https://docs.google.com/a/scarletmail.rutgers.edu/file/d/0BzqRx9sT3W_AVjBiUmV0VVJLaUdmWl95cFlNWFc1d3pYWTBr }}<br />
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==External links==<br />
*[http://www.endangeredlanguages.com/lang/3144 Endangered Languages Project Profile for Zangskari]<br />
*{{cite web |title= Zangskari Numerals |url= http://lingweb.eva.mpg.de/numeral/Zangskari.htm |access-date= 6 May 2015 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20150518091356/http://lingweb.eva.mpg.de/numeral/Zangskari.htm |archive-date= 18 May 2015 |url-status= dead }}<br />
*{{youtube|d-Xts_tJ8P8| YouTube video of Zangskari}}<br />
*[http://www.verbix.com/maps/language/Zangskari.html Linguistic Map of Zangskari]<br />
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[[Category:Endangered languages of India]]<br />
[[Category:Languages of Ladakh]]<br />
[[Category:Kargil district]]<br />
[[Category:Languages written in Tibetan script]]<br />
[[Category:Bodic languages]]<br />
[[Category:Culture of Ladakh]]<br />
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