What is Balti language?
{{Distinguish|Baltic languages}} {{Infobox Language | name = Balti | nativename = སྦལ་ཏི་སྐད། | states = [[Pakistan]], [[India]] | region = [[Baltistan]] and small pockets in [[Ladakh]], [[Karachi]], [[Rawalpindi]]/[[Islamabad]] and [[Lahore]] | speakers = {{Circa}}484,000 in Pakistan | familycolor = Sino-Tibetan | fam2 = [[Tibeto-Burman languages|Tibeto-Burman]] | fam3 = [[Bodic languages|Bodic]] | fam4 = [[Bodish languages|Bodish]] | fam5 = [[Tibetan language|Tibetan]] | fam6 = [[Western Tibetan]] | iso2 = sit | iso3 = bft | altname = Balti Bhotia | date = 2018 | ref = <ref>e24</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Preservation of the original Balti language|url=https://www.nation.com.pk/13-Jan-2018/preservation-of-the-original-balti-language|website=The Nation|date=2023-11-24}}</ref> | ethnicity = [[Balti people|Baltipa]] | script = [[Tibetan script]], [[Nastaliq script]] }} '''Balti''' (སྦལ་ཏི་སྐད།) or '''Bhotia''' is [[Tibetic languages|Tibetic]] language spoken in the [[Baltistan]] region of [[Gilgit-Baltistan|Gilgit Baltistan]] in northeastern [[Pakistan]] occupied Kashmir and a few neighboring villages of the territory of [[Indian-administered Kashmir|Indian Kashmir]].<ref>{{Cite web|last=PeopleGroups.org|title=PeopleGroups.org - Baltistani Bhotia of Pakistan|url=https://peoplegroups.org/explore/PeopleGroupDetails.aspx?peid=6328#topmenu|access-date=2023-11-24|website=peoplegroups.org}}{{Dead link|date=December 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> The language is an archaic dialect of the [[Tibetan language]], but many of the consonants of [[Classical Tibetan]] that are silent in most modern Tibetan dialects are pronounced in Balti.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=a9ksj2XYiDAC&q=balti+language|title=Balti-English / English-Balti Dictionary|last=Sprigg|first=R. K.|date=2013-07-04|publisher=Rout