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Purgi language
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Purgi, Purigi or Puriki (Tibetan script: བོད་རིགས་སྐད།, Nastaʿlīq script: ‫ ) ِگری‬is a Tibetic language closely Purki
related to the Balti language. Purgi is natively spoken by the Purigpa people in Ladakh region of
India and Baltistan region of Pakistan. Purigi, Purki

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]

References
1. Purki (https://www.ethnologue.com/18/language/prx/) at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
(subscription required)
2. *N. Tournadre (2005) "L'aire linguistique tibétaine et ses divers dialectes." Lalies, 2005, n°25,
p. 7–56 [1] (http://tournadre.nicolas.free.fr/fichiers/2005-aire.pdf)
3. Zemp, Marius (2018). A Grammar of Purik Tibetan (https://books.google.com/books?id=ZGdjDw Native to India, Pakistan
AAQBAJ). BRILL. ISBN 978-90-04-36631-2.
Ethnicity Purigpa
Native speakers 94,000 (2011
External links census)[1]

Ethnic profile by Asia Harvest (http://www.asiaharvest.org/pages/profiles/nonChina/India/Purik.p Language Sino-Tibetan

df) family
Tibeto-
Kanauri ?
Bodish
Tibetic
Ladakhi–
Balti

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Purki

Writing system Perso-Arabic

script
Tibetan script
Language codes
ISO 639-3 prx
Glottolog puri1258 (htt
p://glottolo
g.org/resourc
e/languoid/i
d/puri1258)
ELP Purik (http://ww
w.endangeredla
nguages.com/la
ng/1613)

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