| Purki | |
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| Purigi, Purki | |
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| Native to | India,Pakistan |
| Region | Ladakh |
| Ethnicity | Purigpa |
Native speakers | 94,000 (2011 census)[1] |
| Perso-Arabic script Tibetan script | |
| Official status | |
Official language in | India |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | prx |
| Glottolog | puri1258 |
| ELP | Purik |
Purgi,Burig,Purki,Purik,Purigi orPuriki (Tibetan script:པུ་རིག་་སྐད།,Nastaʿlīq script:پُرگِی) is aTibetic language closely related to theLadakhi-Balti language. Purgi is natively spoken by thePurigpa people inLadakh region ofIndia andBaltistan region ofPakistan. There are about 94,000 native speakers of the language in India.[3]
Most of thePurigpas areShia Muslims, although a significant number of them followNoorbakhshi andSunni Islam, and a small minority ofBuddhists andBön followers reside in areas like Fokar valley, Mulbekh, Wakha. Like the Baltis, they speak an archaic Tibetan dialect closely related to Balti andLadakhi. Purigi is more closely related to Balti than Ladakhi, so there are different opinions among linguists in considering Purigi and Balti as different languages or simply different varieties of the same language.[4][5][6]
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| WesternHimalayas (Himachal, Uttarakhand,Nepal,Sikkim) |
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| Dubious (possible isolates,Arunachal) |
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