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.
| Purki | |
|---|---|
| Purigi, Purki | |
 | |
| Native to | India, Pakistan |
| Ethnicity | Purigpa |
Native speakers | 94,000 (2011 census)[1] |
| Perso-Arabic script Tibetan script | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | prx |
| Glottolog | puri1258 |
| ELP | Purik |
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 edit
Consonants edit
| 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 edit
| 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 edit
- ^ 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.