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group</div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1257001546">.mw-parser-output .infobox-subbox{padding:0;border:none;margin:-3px;width:auto;min-width:100%;font-size:100%;clear:none;float:none;background-color:transparent}.mw-parser-output .infobox-3cols-child{margin:auto}.mw-parser-output .infobox .navbar{font-size:100%}@media screen{html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data:not(.notheme)>div:not(.notheme)[style]{background:#1f1f23!important;color:#f8f9fa}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data:not(.notheme) div:not(.notheme){background:#1f1f23!important;color:#f8f9fa}}@media(min-width:640px){body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table{display:table!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table>caption{display:table-caption!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table>tbody{display:table-row-group}body.skin--responsive 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photographed in <a href="/wiki/Tarishing" title="Tarishing">Tarishing</a>, <a href="/wiki/Gilgit-Baltistan" title="Gilgit-Baltistan">Gilgit−Baltistan</a> in September 2008</div></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color:#b0c4de;">Total population</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><abbr title="circa">c.</abbr><span style="white-space:nowrap;"> 393,000</span><sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color:#b0c4de;">Regions with significant populations</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><a href="/wiki/Gilgit-Baltistan" title="Gilgit-Baltistan">Gilgit−Baltistan</a>, Pakistan<br /><a href="/wiki/Ladakh" title="Ladakh">Ladakh</a>, India<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color:#b0c4de;">Languages</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><a href="/wiki/Balti_language" title="Balti language">Balti</a></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color:#b0c4de;">Religion</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><span typeof="mw:File"><span><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/09/Star_and_Crescent.svg/15px-Star_and_Crescent.svg.png" decoding="async" width="15" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/09/Star_and_Crescent.svg/23px-Star_and_Crescent.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/09/Star_and_Crescent.svg/30px-Star_and_Crescent.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="249" data-file-height="216" /></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Islam" title="Islam">Islam</a><br />(predominantly <a href="/wiki/Shia_Islam" title="Shia Islam">Shia Islam</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-Bakshi1997_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Bakshi1997-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> small minorities of <a href="/wiki/Noorbakshia_Islam" title="Noorbakshia Islam">Noorbakshia Sufi Islam</a> and <a href="/wiki/Sunni_Islam" title="Sunni Islam">Sunni Islam</a> in Pakistan and India<sup id="cite_ref-censusindia.gov.in_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-censusindia.gov.in-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>)<br /></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color:#b0c4de;">Related ethnic groups</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><a href="/wiki/Tibetan_people" title="Tibetan people">Tibetans</a>, <a href="/wiki/Tibetan_Muslims" title="Tibetan Muslims">Khachis</a>, <a href="/wiki/Purigpa" title="Purigpa">Purigpas</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ladakhis" title="Ladakhis">Ladakhis</a>, <a href="/wiki/Dardic_languages" title="Dardic languages">Dardic</a> </td></tr></tbody></table> <p>The <b>Baltis</b> are a <a href="/wiki/Tibetic_languages" title="Tibetic languages">Tibetic</a> ethnic group who are native to the <a href="/wiki/Pakistan" title="Pakistan">Pakistani</a>-administered territory of <a href="/wiki/Gilgit-Baltistan" title="Gilgit-Baltistan">Gilgit−Baltistan</a> and the <a href="/wiki/India" title="India">Indian</a>-administered territory of <a href="/wiki/Ladakh" title="Ladakh">Ladakh</a>, predominantly in the <a href="/wiki/Kargil_district" title="Kargil district">Kargil district</a> with smaller concentrations present in the <a href="/wiki/Leh_district" title="Leh district">Leh district</a>. Outside of the <a href="/wiki/Kashmir" title="Kashmir">Kashmir region</a>, Baltis are scattered throughout Pakistan, with the majority of the diaspora inhabiting prominent urban centres such as <a href="/wiki/Lahore" title="Lahore">Lahore</a>, <a href="/wiki/Karachi" title="Karachi">Karachi</a>, <a href="/wiki/Islamabad" title="Islamabad">Islamabad</a> and <a href="/wiki/Rawalpindi" title="Rawalpindi">Rawalpindi</a>. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Origin">Origin</h2></div> <p>The origin of the name <i>Balti</i> is unknown.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The first written mention of the Balti people occurs in the 2nd century BCE by the <a href="/wiki/Roman_Alexandria" class="mw-redirect" title="Roman Alexandria">Alexandrian</a> astronomer and geographer <a href="/wiki/Ptolemy" title="Ptolemy">Ptolemy</a>, who refers to the region as <i>Byaltae</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Balti people themselves refer to their native land as <i>Balti-yul</i> (<abbr title="translation">transl.</abbr><span> 'Land of Baltis'</span>); the modern name of <i><a href="/wiki/Baltistan" title="Baltistan">Baltistan</a></i> is the <a href="/wiki/Persian_language" title="Persian language">Persian</a> rendering of this name.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Language">Language</h2></div> <p>The <a href="/wiki/Balti_language" title="Balti language">Balti language</a> belongs to the <a href="/wiki/Tibetic_languages" title="Tibetic languages">Tibetic language family</a>. Read (1934) considers it to be a <a href="/wiki/Dialect" title="Dialect">dialect</a> of <a href="/wiki/Ladakhi_language" title="Ladakhi language">Ladakhi</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> while <a href="/wiki/Nicolas_Tournadre" title="Nicolas Tournadre">Nicolas Tournadre</a> (2005) instead considers it to be a <a href="/wiki/Sister_language" title="Sister language">sister language</a> of Ladakhi.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The <a href="/wiki/Balti_language" title="Balti language">Balti language</a> remains highly archaic and conservative, closer to <a href="/wiki/Classical_Tibetan" title="Classical Tibetan">Classical Tibetan</a> than other <a href="/wiki/Tibetic_languages" title="Tibetic languages">Tibetan languages</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Religion">Religion</h2></div> <p>The Baltis still retain many cultural traits of pre-Islamic <a href="/wiki/Bon" title="Bon">Bön</a> and <a href="/wiki/Tibetan_Buddhism" title="Tibetan Buddhism">Tibetan Buddhist</a> rituals within their society, making them a unique demographic group in <a href="/wiki/Pakistan" title="Pakistan">Pakistan</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/Bon" title="Bon">Bön</a> and <a href="/wiki/Tibetan_Buddhism" title="Tibetan Buddhism">Tibetan Buddhism</a> were the dominant religions practiced by the Balti people until the arrival of <a href="/wiki/Islam" title="Islam">Islam</a> in <a href="/wiki/Baltistan" title="Baltistan">Baltistan</a> around the 14th century CE, predominantly through <a href="/wiki/Sufism" title="Sufism">Sufi</a> missionaries such as <a href="/wiki/Mir_Sayyid_Ali_Hamadani" title="Mir Sayyid Ali Hamadani">Mir Sayyid Ali Hamadani</a>. The <a href="/wiki/Noorbakshia_Islam" title="Noorbakshia Islam">Noorbakshia Sufi</a> sect further propagated the Islamic faith in the region, and most of the Balti had converted to Islam by the end of the 17th century.<sup id="cite_ref-:1_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Over time, a significant number of Baltis converted to <a href="/wiki/Shia_Islam" title="Shia Islam">Shia Islam</a>, while a few converted to <a href="/wiki/Sunni_Islam" title="Sunni Islam">Sunni Islam</a>. </p><p>Baltis see congregation in <a href="/wiki/Mosque" title="Mosque">mosques</a> and <a href="/wiki/Khanqah" class="mw-redirect" title="Khanqah">Sufi Khanqahs</a> as an important religious ritual. Khanqahs are training schools introduced by early Sufi saints who arrived in the region. The students gain spiritual purity (<a href="/wiki/Tazkiah" class="mw-redirect" title="Tazkiah">tazkiah</a>) through this training (meditations and contemplations) under well-practiced spiritual guides who have already attained a certain degree of spirituality.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Please_clarify" title="Wikipedia:Please clarify"><span title="Vague (January 2021)">further explanation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>Mosques in Baltistan are predominantly built in the <a href="/wiki/Architecture_of_Tibet" title="Architecture of Tibet">Tibetan style of architecture</a>, though several mosques have wood-finishings and decorations in the <a href="/wiki/Mughal_architecture" title="Mughal architecture">Mughal style</a>, which is also seen in the Kargil district of <a href="/wiki/India" title="India">Indian</a>-administered <a href="/wiki/Ladakh" title="Ladakh">Ladakh</a>, across the <a href="/wiki/Line_of_Control" title="Line of Control">Line of Control</a>. </p><p>Today, around 60% of Baltis are Shia Muslims, while some 30% practice Noorbakshia Sufi Islam, and 10% are Sunni Muslims.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-:1_11-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In India, 97% of Baltis are <a href="/wiki/Muslims" title="Muslims">Muslims</a> and 3% of Baltis are <a href="/wiki/Buddhism" title="Buddhism">Buddhists</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-censusindia.gov.in_4-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-censusindia.gov.in-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Gilgit-Baltistan" title="Gilgit-Baltistan">Gilgit−Baltistan</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Baltistan" title="Baltistan">Baltistan</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Balti_language" title="Balti language">Balti language</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Balti_(food)" title="Balti (food)">Balti (dish)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mayfung" title="Mayfung">Mayfung</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Purigpa" title="Purigpa">Purigpa</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tibetan_Muslims" title="Tibetan Muslims">Tibetan Muslims</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Three_Cups_of_Tea" title="Three Cups of Tea">Three Cups of Tea</a></i>, a book about an <a href="/wiki/Americans" title="Americans">American</a> humanitarian involved in building schools in Baltistan (as part of a larger <a href="/wiki/AfPak" title="AfPak">AfPak</a> campaign)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sart" title="Sart">Sart</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output 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Balti Zaban. 1990.</li> <li>Muhammad Yousuf Hussainabadi, 'Tareekh-e-Baltistan'. 2003.</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://std.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc2/wg2/docs/n2985.pdf">Addition of new four letter to tibetan scripts by Yusuf Hussainabadi</a> Indian Muslim.</li> <li>Akhond Muhammad Hussain Kashif "Malumaat e Gilgit Baltistan" 2013.</li> <li>Shumal kay Sitarey by Ehsan Ali Danish Sermik.</li> <li>Azadi e Gilgit Baltistan by Muhammad Yousuf.</li> <li>Documentary film, <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="https://vimeo.com/channels/260876/409415255">[2]</a> Fathima the Oracle (2020, dir. 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