Shamskat

The Shamskat dialect (Ladakhi: གཤམ་སྐད) of the Ladakhi language is spoken in the Sham region of Ladakh, a region administered by India as a union territory. Along the Indus, there is a clear geographical boundary between two dialects of Shamskat and Kenskat. Nimo, the first village of Shamskat speakers, lies in the sharply cut basin near the narrow gorge of Indus river.[1] It is the predominant language in the west of the Buddhist-dominated district of Leh. Shamskat pronunciation resembles classical Tibetan language. Shamskat retains its classical Tibetan vocabulary while the Balti language and Purgi language have little influence from its neighbour Shina vocabulary. The native speakers of these languages are called shamma.

Shamskat
གཤམ་སྐད་
sham skat
Native toIndia
RegionLadakh
EthnicityLadakhis
Native speakers

Most speakers counted under "Bhoti"
Tibetan script
Language codes
ISO 639-3–
Glottologsham1264
Ladakhi is classified as Vulnerable by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger

Pronunciation

Shamskat is usually written using Tibetan script, with the pronunciation being much closer to written Classical Tibetan than most other Tibetic languages. Shamskat pronounces many of the prefix, suffix and head letters that are silent in many other Tibetic languages, in particular Central Tibetan.[2]

Caption text
EnglishClassical TibetanShamskat dilect of ladakhi languageUpperleh nyoma dilect of Ladakhi
Windowསྐར་ཁུང (skarkhung)skarkhungkarhung
Childrenཕྲུ་གུ(phrugu)phruguthugu
Girlབུ་མོ(bumo)Bumopomo
To forgetརྗེད(rjed)rjedzhed
Sadསྡུག་པོ(sdukpo)sdukpodukpo
messageཕྲིན(phrin)phrinthin
Buckwheatབྲོ(bro)brodao
poplar treeདབྱར་པ(dByarpa)zbyarpaByarpa
creamའོ་སྤྲིས(ospris)osprisosri
Doorསྒོ(sgo)sgogo
Horseརྟ(rta)rtasta
Dryསྐམ་པོ(skampo)skambokampo

References
  1. Turin, Mark; Zeisler, Bettina (21 April 2011). Himalayan Languages and Linguistics: Studies in Phonology, Semantics, Morphology and Syntax. BRILL. pp. 240–290. ISBN 978-90-04-19448-9.
  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.
Wikibooks has a book on the topic of: Research on Tibetan Languages: A Bibliography
Wikivoyage has a phrasebook for Lakakhi.
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