Purgi, Purigi or Puriki (
Tibetan script: ,
Nastaʿlīq script: ) is a
Tibetic language closely related to the
Balti language. Purgi is natively spoken by the
Purigpa people in
Ladakh region of
India and
Baltistan
Baltistan ( ur, ; bft, སྦལ་ཏི་སྟཱན, script=Tibt), also known as Baltiyul or Little Tibet ( bft, སྦལ་ཏི་ཡུལ་།, script=Tibt), is a mountainous region in the Pakistani-administered territory of Gil ...
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
Buddhism ( , ), also known as Buddha Dharma and Dharmavinaya (), is an Indian religion or philosophical tradition based on teachings attributed to the Buddha. It originated in northern India as a -movement in the 5th century BCE, and gr ...
and
Bön
''Bon'', also spelled Bön () and also known as Yungdrung Bon (, "eternal Bon"), is a Tibetan religious tradition with many similarities to Tibetan Buddhism and also many unique features.Samuel 2012, pp. 220-221. Bon initially developed in t ...
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.
References
External links
Ethnic profile by Asia Harvest
{{Languages of Jammu and Kashmir
Languages of Ladakh
Languages of Gilgit-Baltistan
Tibetic languages of Pakistan
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