Zangskari language
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| Zangskari | |
|---|---|
| Zanskari, Zaskari, Zangs-dkar, Z’angkar | |
| ཟངས་དཀར | |
| Native to | India |
| Region | Zanskar, Ladakh |
Native speakers | (12,000 cited 2000)[1] |
| Tibetan script | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | zau |
| Glottolog | zang1248 |
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Zangskari (Zanskari, Zaskari) is an endangered Tibetic language. It is a dialect of the Ladakhi language. It is mostly spoken in the Zanskar region of the Kargil district of Ladakh, India and also by Buddhists in the upper reaches of Lahaul, Himachal Pradesh, and Paddar, Jammu and Kashmir.[2] It is written using the Tibetan script.[3]
Zangskari is divided into four homogeneous groups, namely Oot (Stod) or Upper Zanskari spoken along the Doda River, Zhung (Gžun) or Central Zanskari mostly spoken in Padum valley, Sham (Gšam) or Lower Zanskari spoken along the lower portions of Zanskar River and lastly Lungnak (Luŋnag) along the upper Zanskar River region.[4]
References
[edit | edit source]- ^ Zangskari at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
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Further reading
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External links
[edit | edit source]- Endangered Languages Project Profile for Zangskari Archived 26 June 2021 at the Wayback Machine
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- YouTube video of Zangskari on YouTube
- Linguistic Map of Zangskari
- Free-access archived version of Zangskari at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015). Archived 1 December 2016.
