Purgi language

Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Template:Template otherTemplate:Main other Purgi, Burig, Purki, Purik, Purigi or Puriki (Tibetan script: , Nastaʿlīq script: ) 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. There are about 94,000 native speakers of the language in India.

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. 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.

Phonology

Consonants

		Labial	Dental/ Alveolar	Retroflex	Post- alveolar	Palatal	Velar	Uvular	Glottal
Nasal		Template:IPAlink	Template:IPAlink			Template:IPAlink	Template:IPAlink
Stop	voiceless	Template:IPAlink	Template:IPAlink	Template:IPAlink			Template:IPAlink	Template:IPAlink
	aspirated	Template:IPAlink	Template:IPAlink	Template:IPAlink			Template:IPAlink
	voiced	Template:IPAlink	Template:IPAlink	Template:IPAlink			Template:IPAlink
Affricate	voiceless		Template:IPAlink		Template:IPAlink
	aspirated		Template:IPAlink		Template:IPAlink
	voiced		Template:IPAlink		Template:IPAlink
Fricative	voiceless	(Template:IPA link)	Template:IPAlink	Template:IPAlink	Template:IPAlink			Template:IPAlink	Template:IPAlink
	voiced		Template:IPAlink		Template:IPAlink			Template:IPAlink
	lateral		Template:IPA link
Trill/Tap			Template:IPAlink	Template:IPAlink
Approximant	lateral		Template:IPAlink
	central	Template:IPAlink				Template:IPAlink

• /pʰ/ may also be realized as a fricative [f].
• /r/ is often fricativized, being heard as [r̝].

Vowels

	Front	Central	Back
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Mid	Template:IPAlink	(Template:IPAlink)	Template:IPAlink
Open		Template:IPAlink

• /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.

External links

• Ethnic profile by Asia Harvest