Purgi language
Tibetic language spoken in India and Pakistan
| Purki | |
|---|---|
| Purigi, Purki | |
 | |
| Native to | India, Pakistan |
| Ethnicity | Purigpa |
Native speakers | 94,000 (2011 census)[1] |
Language family | Sino-Tibetan
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Writing system | Perso-Arabic script Tibetan script |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | prx |
| Glottolog | puri1258 |
| ELP | Purik |
Purgi, Burig, Purki, Purik, Purigi or Puriki (Tibetan script: བོད་རིགས་སྐད།, Nastaʿlīq script: پُرگِی) is a Tibetic language closely related to the ladakhi-Balti language. Purgi is natively spoken by the Purigpa people in Ladakh region of India and Baltistan region of Pakistan.
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]
Phonology
Consonants
| Labial | Dental/ Alveolar | Retroflex | Post- alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Uvular | Glottal | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nasal | m | n | ɲ | ŋ | |||||
| Stop | voiceless | p | t | ʈ | k | q | |||
| aspirated | pʰ | tʰ | ʈʰ | kʰ | |||||
| voiced | b | d | ɖ | ɡ | |||||
| Affricate | voiceless | t͡s | t͡ʃ | ||||||
| aspirated | t͡sʰ | t͡ʃʰ | |||||||
| voiced | d͡z | d͡ʒ | |||||||
| Fricative | voiceless | (f) | s | ʂ | ʃ | χ | h | ||
| voiced | z | ʒ | ʁ | ||||||
| lateral | ɬ | ||||||||
| Trill/Tap | r | ɽ | |||||||
| Approximant | lateral | l | |||||||
| central | w | j | |||||||
- /pʰ/ may also be realized as a fricative [f].
- /r/ is often fricativized, being heard as [r̝].
Vowels
| Front | Central | Back | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | i | u | |
| Mid | e | (ə) | o |
| Open | a | ||
- /a/ may often be heard as back [ʌ] or centralized [ʌ̈], and in certain environments as [ɛ].
- Sounds /e, o/ may often be heard as [ɛ, ɔ].
- /e/ can be heard as [ə] when in unstressed syllables.[3]
References
- ^ 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]
- ^ a b Zemp, Marius (2018). A Grammar of Purik Tibetan. BRILL. ISBN 978-90-04-36631-2.
External links
- Ethnic profile by Asia Harvest
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Sino-Tibetan branches
(Himachal, Uttarakhand, Nepal, Sikkim)
| Greater Magaric |
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(Tibet, Bhutan, Arunachal)
| "Naga" | |
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| Sal |
| Burmo-Qiangic |
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(Arunachal)
| Greater Siangic |
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Italics indicates single languages that are also considered to be separate branches.
