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Shamskat
གཤམ་སྐད་
sham skat
Native toIndia
RegionLadakh
EthnicityLadakhis
Native speakers
Most speakers counted under "Bhoti"
Language familySino-Tibetan
Writing systemTibetan script
Language codes
ISO 639-3
Glottologsham1264
Ladakhi is classified as Vulnerable by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger

The shamskat dilect is dilect of Ladakhi language spoken in the sham region of Ladakh, a region administered by India as a union territory. It is the predominant language in the west of the Buddhist-dominated district of Leh.

vacoubulary pronounciation

shamskat is usually written using Tibetan script with the pronunciation of shamskat being much closer to written Classical Tibetan than most other Tibetic languages. shamskat pronounce many of the prefix, suffix and head letters that are silent in many other Tibetic languages, in particular the Central Tibetan.

Caption text
English Classical Tibetan Shamskat dilect of ladakhi langauge Upperleh nyoma dilect of Ladakhi
Window སྐར་ཁུང (skarkhung) skarkhung karhung
Children ཕྲུ་གུ(phrugu) phrugu thugu
Girl བུ་མོ(bumo) Bumo pomo
To forget རྗེད(rjed) rjed zhed
Sad སྡུག་པོ(sdukpo) sdukpo dukpo
message ཕྲིན(phrin) phrin thin
Buckwheat བྲོ(bro) bro dao
poplar tree དབྱར་པ(dByarpa)

zbyarpa

Byarpa
cream འོ་སྲིས(ospris) ospris osri
Door སྒོ(sgo) sgo go

References

  1. "Statement 1: Abstract of speakers' strength of languages and mother tongues – 2011". www.censusindia.gov.in. Office of the Registrar General & Census Commissioner, India. Retrieved 15 June 2020.
  2. Bielmeier, Roland. 1985. 'A Survey of the Development of Western and South-western Tibetan dialects', in Barbara Nimri Aziz and Matthew Kapstein (eds.), Soundings in Tibetan Civilisation.

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