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Purgi language
| Purki | |
|---|---|
| Purigi, Purki | |
| Native to | India, Pakistan |
| Ethnicity | Purigpa |
Native speakers | 94,000 (2011 census)[1] |
| Perso-Arabic script Tibetan script | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | prx |
| Glottolog | puri1258 |
Purgi (alternative spellings: Purgi or Puriki) is a southern Tibetan language spoken by the Purigpa people in Baltistan, Pakistan and Ladakh, India. Most of them are Shia Muslims by religion although significant Noorbakhshi and Sunni Muslims and a small minority of Buddhists and Bön followers reside in areas like Fokar valley, Mulbekh, Wakha. Like the Balti, they speak an archaic Tibetan dialect closely related to Balti and Ladakhi. Purki is more close to Balti than Ladakhi, so there are different opinions among linguists in considering Purki and Balti as different languages or simply different varieties of the same language.[2][3]
References[edit]
- ↑ Purki at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ↑ *N. Tournadre (2005) "L'aire linguistique tibétaine et ses divers dialectes." Lalies, 2005, n°25, p. 7–56 [1]
- ↑ Zemp, Marius (2018). A Grammar of Purik Tibetan. BRILL. ISBN 978-90-04-36631-2.