Balti language

Balti
Balti
Balti Bhotia
སྦལ་ཏི་སྐད།
Native to	Pakistan, India
Region	Baltistan and small pockets in Ladakh, Karachi, Rawalpindi/Islamabad and Lahore
Ethnicity	Baltipa
Native speakers	c.484,000 in Pakistan (2018)
Language family	Sino-Tibetan Tibeto-Burman Bodic Bodish Tibetan Western Tibetan Balti; ; ; ; ; ;
Writing system	Tibetan script, Nastaliq script
Language codes
ISO 639-2	sit
ISO 639-3	bft
ELP	Balti

Balti (སྦལ་ཏི་སྐད།) or Bhotia is Tibetic language spoken in the Baltistan region of Gilgit Baltistan northeastern Pakistan and a few neighboring villages of the disputed territory of Indian-administered Kashmir.^[3] The language is an archaic dialect of the Tibetan language, but many of the consonants of Classical Tibetan that are silent in most modern Tibetan dialects are pronounced in Balti.^[4]

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↑ "Preservation of the original Balti language". The Nation. 2023-11-24.
↑ PeopleGroups.org. "PeopleGroups.org - Baltistani Bhotia of Pakistan". peoplegroups.org. Retrieved 2023-11-24.^{[permanent dead link]}
↑ Sprigg, R. K. (2013-07-04). Balti-English / English-Balti Dictionary. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-136-84517-8.

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[2] "Preservation of the original Balti language". The Nation. 2023-11-24.

[3] PeopleGroups.org. "PeopleGroups.org - Baltistani Bhotia of Pakistan". peoplegroups.org. Retrieved 2023-11-24.^{[permanent dead link]}

[4] Sprigg, R. K. (2013-07-04). Balti-English / English-Balti Dictionary. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-136-84517-8.

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