Most of the Purigpas are Shia Muslims, although a significant number of them follow Noorbakhshi and Sunni Islam, and a small minority of Buddhists and Bön followers reside in areas like Fokar valley, Mulbekh, Wakha. Like the Baltis, they speak an archaic Tibetan dialect closely related to Balti and Ladakhi. Purki is more closely related 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]
ReferencesEdit
^Purki at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
^*N. Tournadre (2005) "L'aire linguistique tibétaine et ses divers dialectes." Lalies, 2005, n°25, p. 7–56 [1]
purgi, language, purgi, burig, purki, purik, purigi, puriki, tibetan, script, གས, nastaʿlīq, script, رگ, tibetic, language, closely, related, balti, language, purgi, natively, spoken, purigpa, people, ladakh, region, india, baltistan, region, pakistan, purkipu. Purgi Burig Purki Purik Purigi or Puriki Tibetan script བ ད ར གས ས ད Nastaʿliq script پ رگ ی is a Tibetic language closely related to the Balti language Purgi is natively spoken by the Purigpa people in Ladakh region of India and Baltistan region of Pakistan PurkiPurigi PurkiNative toIndia PakistanEthnicityPurigpaNative speakers94 000 2011 census 1 Language familySino Tibetan Tibeto BurmanTibeto Kanauri BodishTibeticLadakhi BaltiPurkiWriting systemPerso Arabic scriptTibetan scriptLanguage codesISO 639 3 a href https iso639 3 sil org code prx class extiw title iso639 3 prx prx a Glottologpuri1258ELPPurikMost of the Purigpas are Shia Muslims although a significant number of them follow Noorbakhshi and Sunni Islam and a small minority of Buddhists and Bon followers reside in areas like Fokar valley Mulbekh Wakha Like the Baltis they speak an archaic Tibetan dialect closely related to Balti and Ladakhi Purki is more closely related 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 subscription required N Tournadre 2005 L aire linguistique tibetaine 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 External links EditEthnic profile by Asia Harvest Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Purgi language amp oldid 1172095867, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
