The shamskat dilect is dialect of Ladakhi language spoken in the sham region of Ladakh, a region administered by India as a union territory. It is the predominant language in the west of the Buddhist-dominated district of Leh. Shamskat pronounciation resembles to classical Tibetan langauge .In term of vacabulary the shamskat has still retain it's classical Tibetan vacoubulary while the Balti language and purgi language got little influence by shina vacoubulary .The
native speakers of these language are called shamma.
vacoubulary pronounciation
shamskat is usually written using Tibetan script with the pronunciation of shamskat being much closer to written Classical Tibetan than most other Tibetic languages. shamskat pronounce many of the prefix, suffix and head letters that are silent in many other Tibetic languages, in particular the Central Tibetan.[2]
^Bielmeier, Roland. 1985. 'A Survey of the Development of Western and South-western Tibetan dialects', in Barbara Nimri Aziz and Matthew Kapstein (eds.), Soundings in Tibetan Civilisation.
