Zangskari language

Zangskari dialect (Zanskari, Zaskari) is an endangered Tibetic language. It is a dialect of 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
Zanskari, Zaskari, Zangs-dkar, Z’angkar
ཟངས་དཀར
Native to	India
Region	Zanskar, Ladakh
Native speakers	12,000 (2000)[1]
Language family	Sino-Tibetan Tibeto-Burman Tibeto-Kanauri (?) Bodish Tibetic Ladakhi–Balti Ladakhi Zangskari
Writing system	Tibetan script, Arabic script
Language codes
ISO 639-3	zau
Glottolog	zang1248
ELP	Zangskari

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

1. Zangskari at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
2. Beek, Martijn van Pirie, Fernanda (2008). Modern Ladakh : anthropological perspectives on continuity and change. Brill. ISBN 978-90-04-16713-1. OCLC 896146052.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
3. "Zangskari". Script Source. Retrieved 25 August 2012.
4. Mark Turin; Bettina Zeisler (2011). Himalayan Languages and Linguistics: Studies in Phonology, Semantics, Morphology and Syntax. BRILL. p. 243. ISBN 978-9004194489.

Further reading

• Paul Hattaway (2004). "Zangskari". Peoples of the Buddhist World: A Christian Prayer Diary. William Carey Library. ISBN 0878083618.
• Braj B. Kachru; Yamuna Kachru; S. N. Sridhar (2008). "Tibeto-Burman". Language in South Asia. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0521781411.
• Jonathan Mingle (2015), Glossary of Zanskari-Ladakhi Words, St. Martin's Press, pp. 405–409

External links

• Endangered Languages Project Profile for Zangskari
• "Zangskari Numerals". Archived from the original on 18 May 2015. Retrieved 6 May 2015.
• 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.