# Shinaki

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'''Shinaki''' is a [Shina language](/source/Shina_language) term used for the areas inhabited by the [Shina people](/source/Shina_people) in northern [Pakistan](/source/Pakistan).<ref name=":0">{{Cite journal |url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/Journal_of_Asian_Civilisations/FTtWAAAAYAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0&bsq=%22Shinaki%22%20-wikipedia |journal=Journal of Asian Civilisations |title=Linguistic Change in the Northern Areas of Pakistan|volume=XXV|issue=2|author=Ijlal, Hussain|pp=145–150|date=2002 |publisher=Taxila Institute of Asian Civilisations |language=en}}</ref> The term "kui" or "ki" in Shina language means "settlement (of)", hence Shinaki literally means "Shina settlement" or "land of the Shins.<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":2" /> 

It is traditionally used for the areas of [Gor](/source/Goharabad%2C_Gilgit-Baltistan), [Chilas](/source/Chilas), [Tangir](/source/Tangir_District), [Darel](/source/Darel_District) and the [Shinaki](/source/Kohistani_Shina) [Kohistan](/source/Kohistan_District%2C_Pakistan), all of which existed as independent tribal republics of [Hazara](/source/Hazara_Tribal_Agency) and [Gilgit Agencies](/source/Gilgit_Agency) during the colonial period.<ref name=":0" /> In its widest sense ''Shinaki'' encompasses all the Shina-inhabited regions, thus in addition to above regions includes [Astore](/source/Astore_District), [Gilgit](/source/Gilgit_District), [Koh](/source/Golaghmuli_Valley), [Ghizer](/source/Ghizer_District_(1974%E2%80%932019)) and the lower valley of [Hunza](/source/Hunza_valley) (also known as Shinaki).<ref>{{Cite book |last=Bamzai |first=Prithivi Nath Kaul |url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/Kashmir_and_Power_Politics_from_Lake_Suc/nQZRkNVOlw4C?hl=en |title=Kashmir and Power Politics from Lake Success to Tashkent |date=1966 |publisher=Metropolitan Book Company |pages=168 |language=en}}</ref><ref name=":1">{{Cite book |last=Kreutzmann |first=Hermann |url= |title=Pamirian Crossroads and Beyond: Human Geography and Geopolitics |date=2024 |publisher=[BRILL](/source/BRILL) |isbn=978-90-04-70436-7 |pages=559–560 |language=en |chapter=Wakhan, Gojal and Gulmit}}</ref><ref name=":2">{{Cite journal |last=Jettmar |first=Karl |date=1961 |title=Ethnological research in Dardistan 1958: Preliminary report |url=https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/propylaeumdok/2134/ |journal=Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society |volume=105 |issue=1 |pages=79–97 |doi=10.11588/propylaeumdok.00002134}}</ref>

==See also==
* [Baltistan](/source/Baltistan)
* [Brushal](/source/Brushal)

==References==
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Category:Ethnic groups in Pakistan

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