Purik

Facts

  • Language: Purik
  • Alternate names: Purigskad, Burig, Purig, Purki, Purik Bhotia, Burigskat, Bhōṭiā of Purik
  • Language code: prx
  • Language family: Sino-Tibetan, Tibeto-Burman, Western Tibeto-Burman, Bodish, Central Bodish, Western (SIL classification)
  • Number of speakers: 132,000
  • Vulnerability: risk
  • Script: Arabic script. Tibetan script, no longer in use.

More information:

    Ethnonym: Purig-pa. ‘Purig’, of Tibetan origin. People prefer to be culturally and linguistically identified with Tibet, although religiously with Islam. A Scheduled Tribe. Muslim (Shi’a).

    Purik is spoken in Pakistan, India, South Asia.