Balti grammar

by Alfred Frank Read

$125 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books

First edition

London: Royal Asiatic Society, 1934. First edition of what appears to be the first Balti grammar; 8vo, pp. iv, 108; original printed blue paper-cover boards, original glassine jacket; glassine with a few small chips and tears, but otherwise fine throughout. Contains a 20-page English Balti vocabulary. Balti is a Sino-Tibetan language natively spoken by the ethnic Balti people in the Baltistan region of Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan, Nubra Valley of the Leh

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