Balti in India

Speakers

13,654

Type

Location

Balti in India

Country

Information available

1. Basics

Names

Balti in India

Size

13,654

2. Status

Status

  • Official country wide language
  • Official regional language
  • Official minority language
  • Recognised community language
  • Unrecognised community language
National language
No
Indigenous language
Yes
Administrative units of the country
North Western India

3. State

Documentation: materials

Written

  • Extended corpora
  • Annotated corpora
  • Corpus/corpora
  • Materials/corpus
  • Some materials
  • No materials
Digital
Yes
Comments
Some Written material is available in Balti language.

Hardasi, Sadik. Balti Mehajireen Ki Mukhtisar Tareekh, Takhseem-i-Hind Ke Tanaazur Mein. Yousuf Enterprises Islamia Chowk Kargil Ladakh, 2013.

https://archive.org/details/balti-shoqbo-2/Balti_shoqbo_1/

Ladakh ki tareekh ke ehm goshe, Essays by Abdul Gani Sheikh, Applied books,

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Video

  • Extended corpora
  • Annotated corpora
  • Corpus/corpora
  • Materials/corpus
  • Some materials
  • No materials
Digital
Yes
Comments
Songs, Dance, Cultural programs and other videos are available in Balti language.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtEHqkTcvEk

https://archive.org/details/dni.ncaa.CVI-BETA_452-BC

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZ5Qy3jFkwM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PNb4ko6oIGk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3XcfgDLYyEA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZaQLpWm9ni4

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Audio

  • Extended corpora
  • Annotated corpora
  • Corpus/corpora
  • Materials/corpus
  • Some materials
  • No materials
Digital
Yes
Comments
Some Audio clips are available in Balti language.
https://globalrecordings.net/en/language/bft

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Documentation: descriptions

  • Elaborated dictionaries, grammars, statistical language models, etc.
  • Dictionaries and grammars
  • Dictionary and grammar
  • Glossary and descriptions
  • Few descriptions
  • No descriptions
Digital
Yes
Comments
D. D. Sharma. 2004. Balti. In Tribal Languages of Ladakh Part III: A descriptive Grammar of Purki and Balti, 141-243. New Delhi, India: Mittal Publications.

Godwin-Austen, Henry H. 1866. A Vocabulary of English, Balti and Kashmiri. Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal 35. 233-267.

Khan, A. R. History of Baltistan. Valley Book Depot, Srinagar, 2016.

Kazmi, Abbas, S. “The Balti Language.” In Pushp, P. N. and Warikoo, K. (eds.). Jammu, Kashmir and Ladakh: Linguistic Predicament. Himalyan Research and Cultural Foundation, New Delhi, 1996.

Rangan, K. Balti Phonetic Reader: Phonetic Reader, Series 17. Central Institute of Indian Languages, Mysore, 1975.

Read, A. F. C. Balti Grammar. Royal Asiatic Society, London, 1934.

Sheikh, Abdul, G. Reflections on Ladakh, Tibet and Central Asia. Yasmin House, Fort Road Leh, Ladakh, 2010.

Standardization

  • Modern standard language
  • Young standard language
  • Standardised language
  • Quasi-standard language
  • Semi-standardised language
  • Un-standardised language

Graphisation & script encoding

  • Standardised writing system with full script encoding
  • Conventionalised writing system with partial script encoding
  • Consistent writing system with no script encoding
  • Unsystematic writing system(s)
  • Limited written use
  • No written use
Comments
Balti is written with perso-Arabic Script

4. Users

Geographical distribution

  • Users live and dominate in all regions of the country
  • Users live in one [state/...] of the country
  • Users live in a cross-border region [state/...] of the country
  • Users live in separated [states/...] of the country
  • Users live dispersed across one [state/...] of the country
  • Users live scattered all over the country

Settlements

  • Rural
  • Urban
Administrative units of the country
Kargil District of Union Territory of Ladakh

Size / Number of users

Number of users

13654
Source
Census of India
Year
2011

Users within total population

Source
Census of India
Year
2011

Users within the reference community

Age distribution of users

Generational use

Educational attainment

Occupational qualifications

Language competence

Literacy of users

Digital use

5. Use

Socio-geographic dimension

Geographic scope
  • International
  • Supranational
  • Cross-border (states)
  • State-wide
  • Supra-regional cross-border
  • Supra-regional
  • Regional cross-border
  • Regional
  • Local

Functional dimension

Functional use in administration

Language use in administration
  • International level
  • National level
  • Regional level
  • Local level
  • Auxiliary use
  • No use

Types of language use

  • signed / spoken use
  • written use
  • digital use
Comments
State/District

Ethnoculture

  • No use
  • Informal learning
  • Skills and knowledge
  • Performing arts
  • Social practices
  • Customary law
  • Traditional medicine
  • Knowledge and practices
  • Traditions and expressions

Formal Education

Early childhood education
Primary level
Lower secondary level
Higher secondary level
Tertiary level

Public healthcare

Information, communication and cultural production

  • Information services
  • Broadcasting
  • Video, film
  • Sound/music recording
  • Publishing activities
  • Language not used
  • Information services
  • Broadcasting
  • Video, film
  • Sound/music recording
  • Publishing activities
  • Language not used
  • Information services
  • Broadcasting
  • Video, film
  • Sound/music recording
  • Publishing activities
  • Language not used
  • Information services
  • Broadcasting
  • Video, film
  • Sound/music recording
  • Publishing activities
  • Language not used

Legal system

Completion