Concept information
Preferred term
sclShina
Type
-
language
Definition
- Shina (also known as Tshina) is a Dardic language spoken by a plurality of people in Gilgit-Baltistan of Pakistan and Dras in Ladakh of Indian-Administered Kashmir. The valleys in which it is spoken include Astore, Chilas, Dareil, Tangeer, Gilgit, Ghizer, and a few parts of Baltistan and Kohistan. It is also spoken in Gurez, Drass, Kargil, Karkit Badgam and Ladakh valleys. There were 321,000 speakers of Gilgiti Shina as of 1981, and an estimated total of speakers of all dialects of 550,000. Many Shina speakers are also found in Pakistan's major urban centres of Islamabad, Rawalpindi, Lahore, Abbottabad, Hyderabad and Karachi.
Entry terms
- Shina language
ISO 639-3 code
- scl
nearly same as
In other languages
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شينا
Arabic
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Chineg
Breton
-
Finnish
-
Shina
French
-
Shina
German
-
शीना भाषा
Hindi
-
Shina
Norwegian
-
Idioma shina
Spanish
-
சினா மொழி
Tamil
-
شینا زبان
Urdu
URI
http://lexvo.org/id/iso639-3/scl
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