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Balti language, the Glossary

Balti (Nastaʿlīq script:, Tibetan script: སྦལ་ཏི།) is a Tibetic language natively spoken by the ethnic Balti people in the Baltistan region of Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan, Nubra Valley of the Leh district and in the Kargil district of Ladakh, India.^[1]

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Affricate

An affricate is a consonant that begins as a stop and releases as a fricative, generally with the same place of articulation (most often coronal).

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Akhone Asgar Ali Basharat

Akhone Asgar Ali Basharat is an author and poet from the Kargil district in the Union Territory of Ladakh in India.

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Alveolar consonant

Alveolar (UK also) consonants are articulated with the tongue against or close to the superior alveolar ridge, which is called that because it contains the alveoli (the sockets) of the upper teeth.

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Andrew West (linguist)

Andrew Christopher West (born 31 March 1960) is an English Sinologist.

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Approximant

Approximants are speech sounds that involve the articulators approaching each other but not narrowly enough nor with enough articulatory precision to create turbulent airflow.

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Aspirated consonant

In phonetics, aspiration is the strong burst of breath that accompanies either the release or, in the case of preaspiration, the closure of some obstruents.

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Back vowel

A back vowel is any in a class of vowel sound used in spoken languages.

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Balti people

The Baltis are a Tibetic ethnic group who are native to the Pakistani-administered territory of Gilgit−Baltistan and the Indian-administered territory of Ladakh, predominantly in the Kargil district with smaller concentrations present in the Leh district.

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Baltic languages

The Baltic languages are a branch of the Indo-European language family spoken natively or as a second language by a population of about 6.5–7.0 million people mainly in areas extending east and southeast of the Baltic Sea in Europe.

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Baltistan

Baltistan (بلتستان; script) also known as Baltiyul or Little Tibet (script), is a mountainous region in the Pakistani-administered territory of Gilgit-Baltistan and constitutes a northern portion of the larger Kashmir region that has been the subject of a dispute between India and Pakistan since 1947.

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Bodish languages

Bodish, named for the Tibetan ethnonym Bod, is a proposed grouping consisting of the Tibetic languages and associated Sino-Tibetan languages spoken in Tibet, North India, Nepal, Bhutan, and North Pakistan. Balti language and Bodish languages are Bodic languages.

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Bogdang

Bogdang (Bukdang, Beyoqdan, Biagdangdo) is a village in the Leh district of Ladakh, India.

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Breathy voice

Breathy voice (also called murmured voice, whispery voice, soughing and susurration) is a phonation in which the vocal folds vibrate, as they do in normal (modal) voicing, but are adjusted to let more air escape which produces a sighing-like sound.

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Buddhism

Buddhism, also known as Buddha Dharma and Dharmavinaya, is an Indian religion and philosophical tradition based on teachings attributed to the Buddha, a wandering teacher who lived in the 6th or 5th century BCE.

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Central vowel

A central vowel, formerly also known as a mixed vowel, is any in a class of vowel sound used in some spoken languages.

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Close vowel

A close vowel, also known as a high vowel (in U.S. terminology), is any in a class of vowel sounds used in many spoken languages.

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Dehradun

Dehradun, also known as Dehra Doon, is the capital and the most populous city of the Indian state of Uttarakhand.

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Dental consonant

A dental consonant is a consonant articulated with the tongue against the upper teeth, such as,. In some languages, dentals are distinguished from other groups, such as alveolar consonants, in which the tongue contacts the gum ridge.

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Devanagari

Devanagari (देवनागरी) is an Indic script used in the northern Indian subcontinent.

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Epic of King Gesar

The Epic of King Gesar, also spelled Kesar or Geser (especially in Mongolian contexts), is an epic from Tibet and Central Asia.

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Fricative

A fricative is a consonant produced by forcing air through a narrow channel made by placing two articulators close together.

See Balti language and Fricative

Front vowel

A front vowel is a class of vowel sounds used in some spoken languages, its defining characteristic being that the highest point of the tongue is positioned as far forward as possible in the mouth without creating a constriction that would otherwise make it a consonant.

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Ghulam Hassan Lobsang

Ghulam Hassan Lobsang is recognized for his contribution to promoting Balti language and Balti culture in Baltistan, a region in the north of Pakistan.

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Gilgit-Baltistan

Gilgit-Baltistan, formerly known as the Northern Areas, is a region administered by Pakistan as an administrative territory and consists of the northern portion of the larger Kashmir region, which has been the subject of a dispute between India and Pakistan since 1947 and between India and China since 1959.

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Gilgit-Baltistan Scouts

The Gilgit−Baltistan Scouts, are a federal paramilitary force in Pakistan, tasked with law enforcement in the nominally autonomous territory of Gilgit-Baltistan and border guard duties.

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Glottal consonant

Glottal consonants are consonants using the glottis as their primary articulation.

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Guttural

Guttural speech sounds are those with a primary place of articulation near the back of the oral cavity, where it is difficult to distinguish a sound's place of articulation and its phonation.

See Balti language and Guttural

India

India, officially the Republic of India (ISO), is a country in South Asia.

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Indo-Aryan languages

The Indo-Aryan languages (or sometimes Indic languages) are a branch of the Indo-Iranian languages in the Indo-European language family.

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International Phonetic Alphabet

The International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) is an alphabetic system of phonetic notation based primarily on the Latin script.

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Iranian languages

The Iranian languages, also called the Iranic languages, are a branch of the Indo-Iranian languages in the Indo-European language family that are spoken natively by the Iranian peoples, predominantly in the Iranian Plateau.

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Islamabad

Islamabad (اسلام&zwnj;آباد|translit.

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Karachi

Karachi (کراچی) is the capital city of the Pakistani province of Sindh.

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Kargil

Kargil or Kargyil is a city in Indian-administered Ladakh in the disputed Kashmir region.

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Kargil district

Kargil district is a district in Indian-administered Ladakh in the disputed Kashmir-region.

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Khaplu

Khaplu (Urdu:, pronounced: xəpluː; Balti: ཁཔ་ལུ།), also spelt Khapalu, is a city that serves as the administrative capital of the Ghanche District of Pakistan-administered Gilgit-Baltistan in the disputed Kashmir region. Balti language and Khaplu are Baltistan.

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Kharmang Valley

The Kharmang Valley, also known as Kartaksho, is one of the five main valleys in Gilgit–Baltistan region of Pakistan. Balti language and Kharmang Valley are Baltistan.

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Khowar

Khowar (کھووار زبان|translit. Balti language and Khowar are languages of Gilgit-Baltistan.

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Labial consonant

Labial consonants are consonants in which one or both lips are the active articulator.

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Ladakh

Ladakh is a region administered by India as a union territory and constitutes an eastern portion of the larger Kashmir region that has been the subject of a dispute between India and Pakistan since 1947 and India and China since 1959.

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Ladakhi language

The Ladakhi language is a Tibetic language spoken in the Indian union territory of Ladakh. Balti language and Ladakhi language are Bodic languages, languages of Gilgit-Baltistan, languages of Ladakh and languages written in Tibetan script.

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Ladakhi–Balti languages

The Ladakhi–Balti languages or Western Archaic Tibetan languages are a subgroup of the Tibetic languages spoken in the Ladakh region of India and in the Gilgit-Baltistan territory of Pakistan. Balti language and Ladakhi–Balti languages are languages of Gilgit-Baltistan and languages of Ladakh.

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Lahore

Lahore (لہور; لاہور) is the capital and largest city of the Pakistani province of Punjab.

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Lateral consonant

A lateral is a consonant in which the airstream proceeds along one or both of the sides of the tongue, but it is blocked by the tongue from going through the middle of the mouth.

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Latin script

The Latin script, also known as the Roman script, is a writing system based on the letters of the classical Latin alphabet, derived from a form of the Greek alphabet which was in use in the ancient Greek city of Cumae in Magna Graecia.

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Leh

Leh is a city in Ladakh in the Himalayan region.

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Leh district

Leh district is one of the two district in union territory of Ladakh, in India.

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Lhasa Tibetan

Lhasa Tibetan, or Standard Tibetan, is the Tibetan dialect spoken by educated people of Lhasa, the capital of the Tibetan Autonomous Region. Balti language and Lhasa Tibetan are languages written in Tibetan script.

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Loanword

A loanword (also a loan word, loan-word) is a word at least partly assimilated from one language (the donor language) into another language (the recipient or target language), through the process of borrowing.

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Mid vowel

A mid vowel (or a true-mid vowel) is any in a class of vowel sounds used in some spoken languages.

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Muslims

Muslims (God) are people who adhere to Islam, a monotheistic religion belonging to the Abrahamic tradition.

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Nainital

Nainital (Kumaoni: Naintāl) is a town and headquarters of Nainital district of Kumaon division, Uttarakhand, India.

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Nasal consonant

In phonetics, a nasal, also called a nasal occlusive or nasal stop in contrast with an oral stop or nasalized consonant, is an occlusive consonant produced with a lowered velum, allowing air to escape freely through the nose.

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Nastaliq

Nastaliq, also romanized as Nastaʿlīq or Nastaleeq, is one of the main calligraphic hands used to write the Perso-Arabic script and it is used for some Indo-Iranian languages, predominantly Classical Persian, Kashmiri, Punjabi (Shahmukhi) and Urdu.

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Nubra

Nubra, also called Dumra, is a historical region of Ladakh, India that is currently administered as a subdivision and a tehsil in the Leh district.

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Old Tibetan

Old Tibetan refers to the earliest attested form of Tibetan language, reflected in documents from the adoption of writing by the Tibetan Empire in the mid-7th century to the early 9th century. Balti language and Old Tibetan are Bodic languages and languages written in Tibetan script.

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Open vowel

An open vowel is a vowel sound in which the tongue is positioned as far as possible from the roof of the mouth.

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Pakistan

Pakistan, officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, is a country in South Asia.

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Palatal consonant

Palatals are consonants articulated with the body of the tongue raised against the hard palate (the middle part of the roof of the mouth).

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Palate

The palate is the roof of the mouth in humans and other mammals.

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Persian alphabet

The Persian alphabet (translit), also known as the Perso-Arabic script, is the right-to-left alphabet used for the Persian language.

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Persian language

Persian, also known by its endonym Farsi (Fārsī|), is a Western Iranian language belonging to the Iranian branch of the Indo-Iranian subdivision of the Indo-European languages.

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Peshawar

Peshawar (پېښور; پشور;; پشاور) is the sixth most populous city of Pakistan, with a district population of over 4.7 million in the 2023 census.

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Pitch-accent language

A pitch-accent language is a type of language that, when spoken, has certain syllables in words or morphemes that are prominent, as indicated by a distinct contrasting pitch (linguistic tone) rather than by loudness or length, as in some other languages like English.

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Plosive

In phonetics, a plosive, also known as an occlusive or simply a stop, is a pulmonic consonant in which the vocal tract is blocked so that all airflow ceases.

See Balti language and Plosive

Postalveolar consonant

Postalveolar (post-alveolar) consonants are consonants articulated with the tongue near or touching the back of the alveolar ridge.

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Quetta

Quetta (کوئٹہ, ko'eṭa) is the capital and largest city of the Pakistani province of Balochistan.

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Registrar General and Census Commissioner of India

Registrar General and Census Commissioner of India, founded in 1961 by the Government of India Ministry of Home Affairs, for arranging, conducting and analysing the results of the demographic surveys of India including Census of India and Linguistic Survey of India.

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Retroflex consonant

A retroflex, apico-domal, or cacuminal consonant is a coronal consonant where the tongue has a flat, concave, or even curled shape, and is articulated between the alveolar ridge and the hard palate.

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Roundu District

Rondu District (ضلع روندو), also spelled Roundu District, is a district of Pakistan-administered Gilgit-Baltistan in the disputed Kashmir region. Balti language and Roundu District are Baltistan.

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Sart

Sart is a name for the settled inhabitants of Central Asia which has had shifting meanings over the centuries.

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Shigar

Shigar is the headquarter of its namesake district and tehsil in the Baltistan division of Gilgit-Baltistan region in northern Pakistan. Balti language and Shigar are Baltistan.

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Sino-Tibetan languages

Sino-Tibetan, also cited as Trans-Himalayan in a few sources, is a family of more than 400 languages, second only to Indo-European in number of native speakers.

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Skardu

Skardu (سکردو|translit. Balti language and Skardu are Baltistan.

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Takshi

Takshi, also known as Tyakshi or Taqsi, is a remote village in Nubra valley, located on the banks of the Shayok River in the Leh district of UT Ladakh, India.

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Tap and flap consonants

In phonetics, a flap or tap is a type of consonantal sound, which is produced with a single contraction of the muscles so that one articulator (such as the tongue) is thrown against another.

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Tibet

Tibet (Böd), or Greater Tibet, is a region in the western part of East Asia, covering much of the Tibetan Plateau and spanning about.

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Tibetan script

The Tibetan script is a segmental writing system, or abugida, derived from of Brahmic scripts and Gupta script, and used to write certain Tibetic languages, including Tibetan, Dzongkha, Sikkimese, Ladakhi, Jirel and Balti.

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Tibetic languages

The Tibetic languages form a well-defined group of languages descending from Old Tibetan (7th to 9th centuries,Tournadre, Nicolas. 2014. "The Tibetic languages and their classification." In Trans-Himalayan linguistics, historical and descriptive linguistics of the Himalayan area. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. Balti language and Tibetic languages are Bodic languages.

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Tibeto-Burman languages

The Tibeto-Burman languages are the non-Sinitic members of the Sino-Tibetan language family, over 400 of which are spoken throughout the Southeast Asian Massif ("Zomia") as well as parts of East Asia and South Asia.

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Tibeto-Kanauri languages

The Tibeto-Kanauri languages, also called Bodic, Bodish–Himalayish, and Western Tibeto-Burman, are a proposed intermediate level of classification of the Sino-Tibetan languages, centered on the Tibetic languages and the Kinnauri dialect cluster.

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Tone contour

A tone contour or contour tone is a tone in a tonal language which shifts from one pitch to another over the course of the syllable or word.

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Turtuk

Turtuk is a village and the headquarters of an eponymous community development block in the Indian union territory of Ladakh.

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Unicode

Unicode, formally The Unicode Standard, is a text encoding standard maintained by the Unicode Consortium designed to support the use of text in all of the world's writing systems that can be digitized.

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Universal Coded Character Set

The Universal Coded Character Set (UCS, Unicode) is a standard set of characters defined by the international standard ISO/IEC 10646, Information technology — Universal Coded Character Set (UCS) (plus amendments to that standard), which is the basis of many character encodings, improving as characters from previously unrepresented typing systems are added.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balti_language

Also known as Balti Arabic Alphabet, Balti alphabet, Balti dialect, Balti script, ISO 639:bft.

, Muslims, Nainital, Nasal consonant, Nastaliq, Nubra, Old Tibetan, Open vowel, Pakistan, Palatal consonant, Palate, Persian alphabet, Persian language, Peshawar, Pitch-accent language, Plosive, Postalveolar consonant, Quetta, Registrar General and Census Commissioner of India, Retroflex consonant, Roundu District, Sart, Shigar, Sino-Tibetan languages, Skardu, Takshi, Tap and flap consonants, Tibet, Tibetan script, Tibetic languages, Tibeto-Burman languages, Tibeto-Kanauri languages, Tone contour, Turtuk, Unicode, Universal Coded Character Set, Urdu, Uvular consonant, Velar consonant, Vikasnagar, Voice (phonetics), Voicelessness, Yusuf Hussain Abadi.

Balti language, the Glossary

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See also

Arabic alphabets for South Asian languages

Baltistan

Bodic languages

Languages of Gilgit-Baltistan

Languages of Ladakh

Languages written in Tibetan script

References