Balti (Nastaʿlīq script: بلتی, Tibetan script: སྦལ་ཏི།, Wylie: sbal ti) is a Tibetic language natively spoken by the ethnic Balti people in the Baltistan...
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Bălți (Romanian pronunciation: [ˈbəltsʲ] ) is a city in Moldova. It is the second-largest city in terms of population, area and economic importance, after...
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Baltistan is the Persian rendering of this name. The Balti language belongs to the Tibetic language family. Read (1934) considers it to be a dialect of...
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Look up balti or Balti in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Balti may refer to: Bălți, a city in Moldova Bălți County (Moldova), a former county of Moldova...
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The Ladakhi–Balti languages or Western Archaic Tibetan languages are a subgroup of the Tibetic languages spoken in the Ladakh region of India and in the...
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བོད་རིགས་སྐད།, Nastaʿlīq script: پُرگِی) is a Tibetic language closely related to the Ladakhi-Balti language. Purgi is natively spoken by the Purigpa people...
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Bianca Balti (pronounced [ˈbjaŋka ˈbalti]; born 19 March 1984) is an Italian model. She is known for her Dolce & Gabbana campaigns, after being the face...
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A balti or bāltī gosht (Urdu: بالٹی گوشت, Hindi: बाल्टी गोश्त) is a type of curry served in a thin, pressed-steel wok called a "balti bowl". The name...
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Fotbal Club Bălți, commonly known as Bălți, is a Moldovan professional football club based in Bălți, founded in 1984 as FC Zaria Bălți and refounded in...
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K2 (category Articles containing Balti-language text)
mountain is commonly known. It is now also used in the Balti language, rendered as Kechu or Ketu (Balti: کے چو, Urdu: کے ٹو). The Italian climber Fosco Maraini...
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Names of the days of the week (category Articles containing Balti-language text)
In many languages, the names given to the seven days of the week are derived from the names of the classical planets in Hellenistic astronomy, which were...
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Swastika (category Articles containing Balti-language text)
Japanese, manja (만자) in Korean and vạn tự or chữ vạn in Vietnamese. In Balti/Tibetan language it is called yung drung.[citation needed] All swastikas are bent...
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Gilgit-Baltistan (redirect from Languages of Gilgit-Baltistan)
Tibetan plateau, this region became inhabited by Tibetans, who preceded the Balti people of Baltistan. Today Baltistan bears similarity to Ladakh physically...
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languages Urdu and English, and in Baltistan, the Tibetan Balti language serves as the low register while the unrelated Urdu is the official language...
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Skardu (category Articles containing Balti-language text)
the Ladakh Range. The name "Skardu" is believed to be derived from the Balti word meaning "a lowland between two high places." The two referenced "high...
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Mohamed Salah Balti (Tunisian Arabic: محمد صالح بلطي; born April 10, 1980) is a Tunisian singer, rapper, composer and music producer. He began his artistic...
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Russo State University of Bălți (USARB; Romanian: Universitatea de Stat „Alecu Russo” din Bălți) is a university located in Bălți, Moldova. It was named...
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Akhone Asgar Ali Basharat (category Balti people)
Ladakh in India. His writings are in the Balti language which is a Tibetic language natively spoken by the ethnic Balti people in the Baltistan region of Gilgit-Baltistan...
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Deosai National Park (category Articles containing Balti-language text)
(Urdu: دیوسای٘) means 'the land of Giants' in Urdu. The Balti people call this place 'Ghabiarsa' (Balti: غبیارسہ), meaning 'summer's place' because it is only...
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82.53%. The residents of Turtuk and its adjoining villages speak the Balti language along with Ladakhi and Urdu. Chewang Rinchen "6 fabulous food experiences...
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Gasherbrum I (category Articles containing Balti-language text)
Gasherbrum I (Balti: རྒ་ཥཱ་བྲུམ་། - ༡, romanized: rgasha brum - 1, lit. 'Beautiful Mountain - 1'; Urdu: گاشر برم - ۱; simplified Chinese: 加舒尔布鲁木I峰; traditional...
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Baltoro Glacier (category Articles containing Balti-language text)
The Baltoro Glacier (Balti: བལྟོརོ་གངས།, romanized: Baltoro gangs, lit. 'Bone breaker'; Urdu: بالتورو گلیشیر) is a glacier located in the Shigar District...
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Maryul (category Articles containing Balti-language text)
Maryul (Ladakhi: མར་ཡུལ།), also called mar-yul of mnga'-ris, was the western-most Tibetan kingdom based in modern-day Ladakh and some parts of Tibet. The...
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Manthal Buddha Rock ('Dray chatfi Fong' in local Balti language) is a large granite rock with a relief sculpture of Buddha, which probably dates back to...
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Tibetan script (redirect from Tibetan written language)
script, and used to write certain Tibetic languages, including Tibetan, Dzongkha, Sikkimese, Ladakhi, Jirel and Balti. It was originally developed c. 620 by...
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Ladakhis, Baltis, Lahaulas, Sikkimese and Bhutanese. Marius Zemp (2018) hypothesizes that Tibetan originated as a pidgin with the West Himalayish language Zhangzhung...
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Broad Peak (category Articles containing Balti-language text)
Broad Peak (Balti: ཕ༹ལ་ཆན་གངས་རི་།, romanized: Falchan Kangri, lit. 'Broad Peak'; Urdu: بروڈ پیک) is one of the eight-thousanders, and is located in the...
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Concordia (Karakoram) (category Articles containing Balti-language text)
Concordia (Balti: ཅོནྕོརདིཨ།; Urdu: کونکورڈیا) is the confluence of the Baltoro Glacier and the Godwin-Austen Glacier in the Karakoram mountain range...
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Gasherbrum II (category Articles containing Balti-language text)
Gasherbrum II (Balti: རྒ་ཥཱ་བྲུམ་། - ༢, romanized: rgasha brum 2, lit. 'Beautiful Mountain 2'; Urdu: گاشر برم - ۲; simplified Chinese: 加舒尔布鲁木II峰; traditional...
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