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Balti2 /ˈbalti /noun1A native or inhabitant of Baltistan.The Dard and Baltis inhabit Gurez, Tilel and Draas....- The Gilgatis and Baltis do not count themselves as Kashmiris, and they will prefer that their area should become a province of Pakistan at the earliest.
- Many Baltis converted to Islam and adopted his school of thought.
2 [mass noun] The Tibetan language of the Baltis, with around 400,000 speakers.Nine languages are Dogri, Kashmiri, Ladaakhi, Pothwari, Balti, Gojri, Dardi, Punjabi and Urdu....- I speak Balti and have gotten to know the Balti women, especially the elders.
- Around a quarter of million people living in these valleys speak Balti, an archaic Tibetan accent.
adjectiveRelating to the Baltis or their language.His thick Israeli accent sounded loud in the Swiss Cottage air - pungent and appealing and strange, like Balti spices in the Pennines....- For a month, I had heard nothing but Urdu (the local language), Balti music, and eaten Pakistani food.
- K2's difficulties begin with its remoteness, reflected by the fact that the Balti hill people don't even have a name for the mountain.
Origin The name in Ladakhi dialect. |