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Language: Balti

Estimated Global Speakers

468,000

People Groups Speaking as Primary Language

Scripture Status

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= Frontier peoples
People Group ▲	Country	Country Population	Global Population	Indigenous	Primary Religion	Progress Scale	% Christian Adherent	% Evangelical	Est. Workers Needed *
Arghun	India	100	2,100	●	Islam	0 ☀	0.00 %	0.00 %	1
Arghun	Pakistan	2,000	2,100	●	Islam	0 ☀	0.00 %	0.00 %	1
Balti	India	53,000	92,000	●	Islam	0 ☀	0.08 %	-1	1
Balti	Pakistan	39,000	92,000	●	Islam	0 ☀	0.00 %	0.00 %	1
Beda	Pakistan	300	900	●	Buddhism	1 ●	2.70 %	-1	1
Changpa	Pakistan	200	2,900	●	Buddhism	0 ☀	0.00 %	0.00 %	1
Gara	Pakistan	1,000	1,800	●	Buddhism	0 ☀	0.00 %	0.00 %	1
Jangam (Muslim traditions)	Pakistan	900	900	●	Islam	0 ☀	0.00 %	0.00 %	1
Lama	Pakistan	200	2,300	●	Buddhism	0 ☀	0.00 %	0.00 %	1
Makhmi	Pakistan	102,000	114,000	●	Islam	0 ☀	0.00 %	0.00 %	2
Mangrik	Pakistan	43,000	66,000	●	Buddhism	0 ☀	0.00 %	0.00 %	1
Mon	Pakistan	1,100	2,300	●	Buddhism	0 ☀	0.00 %	0.00 %	1
Rigzong	Pakistan	1,400	8,500	●	Buddhism	0 ☀	0.00 %	0.00 %	1
Tarakhehas	Pakistan	22,000	34,000	●	Islam	0 ☀	0.00 %	0.00 %	1
Tibetan	Pakistan	5,400	1,112,000		Buddhism	0 ☀	0.00 %	0.00 %	1
Yashkun	Pakistan	1,600	1,600	●	Islam	0 ☀	0.00 %	0.00 %	1
Totals: 16						16 ●			17

* An estimate of the number of pioneer workers needed for initial church planting among unreached people groups by country. Estimates are calculated only for unreached people groups and are based on ratio of 1 worker-unit (single person or married couple) per 50,000 living in an unreached people group by country, or for example one team of four worker-units per 200,000 people. Some workers may already be onsite. Many more workers are needed beyond this initial estimate.

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People Group ▲	Country	Population	Global Population	Indigenous	Primary Religion	Progress Scale	% Christian Adherent	% Evangelical	Est. Workers Needed *
Awan	Pakistan	5,229,000	5,249,000	●	Islam	0 ☀	0.00 %	0.00 %	105
Bafinda	Pakistan	85,000	99,000	●	Islam	0 ☀	0.00 %	0.00 %	2
Bodh (Buddhist traditions)	Pakistan	700	118,000	●	Buddhism	0 ☀	0.00 %	0.00 %	1
Brahmin	India	59,134,000	63,125,000	●	Hinduism	0 ☀	0.00 %	-1	1183
Broq-Pa	India	49,000	59,000	●	Islam	0 ☀	0.05 %	-1	1
Budhan (Muslim traditions)	Pakistan	14,000	17,000	●	Islam	0 ☀	0.00 %	0.00 %	1
Burusho	Pakistan	212,000	212,000	●	Islam	0 ☀	0.00 %	0.00 %	4
Christian	Pakistan	277,000	1,707,000	●	Christianity	3 ●	100.00 %	-1	-1 -
Dhund	India	10,000	624,000	●	Islam	0 ☀	0.00 %	0.00 %	1
Dhund	Pakistan	614,000	624,000	●	Islam	0 ☀	0.00 %	0.00 %	12
Galleban	India	1,300	1,300	●	Islam	0 ☀	0.00 %	0.00 %	1
Gujjar (Muslim traditions)	India	1,015,000	3,060,000	●	Islam	0 ☀	0.00 %	0.00 %	20
Gujjar (Muslim traditions)	Pakistan	2,045,000	3,060,000	●	Islam	0 ☀	0.00 %	-1	41
Hajam	Pakistan	1,868,000	4,305,000	●	Islam	0 ☀	0.00 %	0.00 %	37
Kashmiri (Muslim traditions)	India	6,722,000	7,785,000	●	Islam	0 ☀	0.00 %	0.00 %	134
Kashmiri (Muslim traditions)	Pakistan	1,063,000	7,785,000	●	Islam	0 ☀	0.00 %	0.00 %	21
Khatri (Muslim traditions)	Pakistan	972,000	1,022,000	●	Islam	0 ☀	0.00 %	0.00 %	19
Kumhiar (Muslim traditions)	Pakistan	39,000	47,000	●	Islam	0 ☀	0.00 %	0.00 %	1
Lohar (Muslim traditions)	Pakistan	1,784,000	2,436,000	●	Islam	0 ☀	0.00 %	0.00 %	36
Mallik (Muslim traditions)	Pakistan	13,000	620,000	●	Islam	0 ☀	0.00 %	0.00 %	1
Mangrik	India	23,000	66,000	●	Buddhism	0 ☀	0.00 %	0.00 %	1
Mirasi (Hindu traditions)	India	212,000	212,000	●	Hinduism	1 ●	0.21 %	-1	4
Moghal	India	1,753,000	2,900,000	●	Islam	0 ☀	0.00 %	0.00 %	35
Moghal	Pakistan	1,099,000	2,900,000	●	Islam	0 ☀	0.00 %	0.00 %	22
Pashtun, Pathan	India	11,482,000	11,695,000	●	Islam	0 ☀	0.00 %	-1	230
Rajput (Hindu traditions)	India	45,611,000	45,785,000	●	Hinduism	0 ☀	0.02 %	-1	912
Rajput (Muslim traditions)	India	2,908,000	17,351,000	●	Islam	0 ☀	0.00 %	0.00 %	58
Rajput (Muslim traditions)	Pakistan	14,405,000	17,351,000	●	Islam	0 ☀	0.00 %	0.00 %	288
Rajput Gakkhar	Pakistan	59,000	63,000	●	Islam	0 ☀	0.00 %	0.00 %	1
Rajput Khokhar	Pakistan	60,000	62,000	●	Islam	0 ☀	0.00 %	0.00 %	1
Saryara (Muslim traditions)	Pakistan	1,500	3,500	●	Islam	0 ☀	0.00 %	0.00 %	1
Sayyid	Pakistan	5,354,000	14,530,000	●	Islam	0 ☀	0.00 %	0.00 %	107
Shaikh	Pakistan	10,559,000	223,463,000	●	Islam	0 ☀	0.00 %	-1	211
Shin	Pakistan	34,000	34,000	●	Islam	0 ☀	0.00 %	0.00 %	1
Sonar (Muslim traditions)	Pakistan	301,000	332,000	●	Islam	0 ☀	0.00 %	0.00 %	6
Tarakhehas	India	12,000	34,000	●	Islam	0 ☀	0.00 %	0.00 %	1
Tarkhan (Muslim traditions)	Pakistan	2,571,000	2,587,000	●	Islam	0 ☀	0.00 %	0.00 %	51
Teli (Muslim traditions)	India	1,703,000	4,178,000	●	Islam	0 ☀	0.00 %	0.00 %	34
Wattal (Muslim traditions)	India	5,700	5,900	●	Islam	0 ☀	0.00 %	0.00 %	1
Totals: 39						38 ●			3,586

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Item	Value
Status	Living
Ethnologue Code	bft
Written	Yes
Bible Translation	Portions
Progress Scale	●

Language Alternate Names
Baltistani
Bhoti of Baltistan
Bhotia of Baltistan
Byltae
Sbalt
Sbalti

Dialects

Dialect Alternate Names

Translation	Year / Status
Bible Portions	1903-1981
New Testament	None Reported
Complete Bible	None Reported

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Resource ▲	Link
Audio Recordings	Audio Bible teaching (GRN)
Audio Recordings	Story of Jesus audio (Jesus Film Project)
Film / Video	Jesus Film: view in Balti
Film / Video	The Hope Video
General	Gospel website in this language
Text / Printed Matter	Online Bible text (Scripture Earth)

The Joshua Project Progress Scale is an estimate of the progress of church planting among a people group, people cluster, country or language. The Progress Scale is derived from people group values for percent Evangelical and percent Christian Adherent.

Level	Description	Criteria
1	Unreached - Few evangelicals and few who identify as Christians. Little, if any, history of Christianity.	Evangelicals <= 2% Professing Christians <= 5%
2	Minimally reached - Few evangelicals, but significant number who identify as Christians.	Evangelicals <= 2% Professing Christians > 5% and <= 50%
3	Superficially reached - Few evangelicals, but many who identify as Christians. In great need of spiritual renewal and commitment to biblical faith.	Evangelicals <= 2% Professing Christians > 50%
4	Partially reached - Evangelicals have a modest presence.	Evangelicals > 2% and <= 10%
5	Significantly reached - Evangelicals have a significant presence.	Evangelicals > 10%

Disclaimers:

Joshua Project data is drawn from many sources and of varying accuracy depending on source and editorial decisions. Populations are scaled to the current year. Other data may have varying ages. We welcome suggested updates.
A displayed zero can mean true zero, a very small rounded number or sometimes unknown. Blanks mean an unknown value.
The data is sometimes not as precise as it appears. Values for %Christian Adherent and %Evangelical (which determine unreached status) are often informed estimates, some more accurate than others. We recommend against using %Christian Adherent and %Evangelical to calculate absolute numbers.
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