# Purgi language
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{{Short description|Tibetic language spoken in India and Pakistan}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=May 2018}}
{{Infobox language
|name=Purki
|nativename=Purigi, Purki
|image=پرگی.svg
|states=[India](/source/India), [Pakistan](/source/Pakistan)
|region=[Ladakh](/source/Ladakh)
|ethnicity=[Purigpa](/source/Purigpa)
|speakers={{sigfig|93,500|2}}
|date=2011 census
|ref=e18
|familycolor=Sino-Tibetan
|fam2=[Tibeto-Burman](/source/Tibeto-Burman)
|fam3=[Tibeto-Kanauri](/source/Tibeto-Kanauri) (?)
|fam4=[Bodish](/source/Bodish_languages)
|fam5=[Tibetic](/source/Tibetic_languages)
|fam6=[Ladakhi–Balti](/source/Ladakhi%E2%80%93Balti_languages)
|script=[Perso-Arabic script](/source/Perso-Arabic_script)
[Tibetan script](/source/Tibetan_script)
| nation = [India](/source/India)
*[Ladakh](/source/Ladakh)[{{cite web |url=https://egazette.gov.in/WriteReadData/2025/263538.pdf |title=The Ladakh Official Languages Regulation, 2025 |publisher=The Gazette of India |date=2 June 2025 |access-date=27 June 2025 }}]
|iso3=prx
|glotto=puri1258
|glottorefname=Purik-Sham-Nubra
}}
'''Purgi''', '''Burig''', ''Purki'', ''Purik'', ''Purigi'' or ''Puriki'' ([Tibetan script](/source/Tibetan_script): {{lang|prx|པུ་རིག་་སྐད།}}, [Nastaʿlīq script](/source/Nasta%CA%BFl%C4%ABq_script): {{lang|prx|{{nq|پُرگِی}}}}) is a [Tibetic language](/source/Tibetic_languages) closely related to the [Ladakhi](/source/Ladakhi_language)-[Balti](/source/Balti_language) language. Purgi is natively spoken by the [Purigpa people](/source/Purigpa) in [Ladakh](/source/Ladakh) region of [India](/source/India) and [Baltistan](/source/Baltistan) region of [Pakistan](/source/Pakistan). There are about 94,000 native speakers of the language in India.[CENSUS OF INDIA 2011, PAPER 1 OF 2018 LANGUAGE INDIA, STATES AND UNION TERRITORIES, P. 11.]
Most of the [Purigpa](/source/Purigpa)s are [Shia Muslims](/source/Shia_Islam), although a significant number of them follow [Noorbakhshi](/source/Noorbakshia_Islam) and [Sunni Islam](/source/Sunni_Islam), and a small minority of [Buddhists](/source/Buddhism) and [Bön](/source/Bon) followers reside in areas like Fokar valley, Mulbekh, Wakha. Like the Baltis, they speak an archaic Tibetan dialect closely related to Balti and [Ladakhi](/source/Ladakhi_language). 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.[* N. Tournadre (2005) "L'aire linguistique tibétaine et ses divers dialectes." ''Lalies'', 2005, n°25, p. 7–56 [http://tournadre.nicolas.free.fr/fichiers/2005-aire.pdf]][{{Cite book|last=Zemp|first=Marius|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZGdjDwAAQBAJ|title=A Grammar of Purik Tibetan|publisher=BRILL|year=2018|isbn=978-90-04-36631-2|language=en}}][{{Cite book |last=Rangan |first=K. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0cK5AAAAIAAJ |title=Purki Grammar |date=1979 |publisher=Central Institute of Indian Languages |language=en}}]
== Phonology ==
=== Consonants ===
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[Alveolar](/source/Alveolar_consonant)
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! colspan="2" |[Nasal](/source/Nasal_consonant)
|{{IPA link|m}}
|{{IPA link|n}}
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|{{IPA link|ɲ}}
|{{IPA link|ŋ}}
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! rowspan="3" |[Stop](/source/Stop_consonant)
|{{IPA link|p}}
|{{IPA link|t}}
|{{IPA link|ʈ}}
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|{{IPA link|pʰ}}
|{{IPA link|tʰ}}
|{{IPA link|ʈʰ}}
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|{{IPA link|b}}
|{{IPA link|d}}
|{{IPA link|ɖ}}
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! rowspan="3" |[Affricate](/source/Affricate_consonant)
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|{{IPA link|t͡s}}
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|{{IPA link|t͡ʃ}}
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|{{IPA link|t͡sʰ}}
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|{{IPA link|t͡ʃʰ}}
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|{{IPA link|d͡z}}
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|{{IPA link|d͡ʒ}}
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! rowspan="3" |[Fricative](/source/Fricative_consonant)
|({{IPA link|f}})
|{{IPA link|s}}
|{{IPA link|ʂ}}
|{{IPA link|ʃ}}
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|{{IPA link|χ}}
|{{IPA link|h}}
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)
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|{{IPA link|z}}
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|{{IPA link|ʒ}}
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|{{IPA link|ʁ}}
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|{{IPA link|ɬ}}
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! colspan="2" |[Trill](/source/Trill_consonant)/[Tap](/source/Tap_consonant)
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|{{IPA link|r}}
|{{IPA link|ɽ}}
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! rowspan="2" |[Approximant](/source/Approximant)
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|{{IPA link|l}}
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|{{IPA link|w}}
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|{{IPA link|j}}
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* /pʰ/ may also be realized as a fricative [f].
* /r/ is often fricativized, being heard as [r̝].
=== Vowels ===
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center"
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|{{IPA link|i}}
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|{{IPA link|u}}
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|{{IPA link|e}}
|({{IPA link|ə}})
|{{IPA link|o}}
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| colspan="2" |{{IPA link|a}}
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* /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.