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This website is the result of a language documentation project conducted by students of Columbia University over the summer of 2020. During two months, our group compiled data to make sections of a sketch grammar and an accompanying dictionary for the Balti language.
Balti is a North-Western Tibetic language of the Sino-Tibetan family spoken by roughly 400,000 native speakers in the region of Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan.
All data posted on this website may be freely shared and used for educational or academic purposes.
There is book “Short sketch on Balti grammar” in English writing style by Ghulam Hassan Lobsang writer and historian from skardu baltistan. The book is published by Bern University switzerland in 1995
We are aware! We tried to use Lobsang’s grammar but, due to the pandemic, we were not able to get a hold of it. It is definitely a useful resource for all researchers, but it is not widely and publicly available.