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Language: Balti

Estimated Global Speakers

526,000

People Groups Speaking as Primary Language

Scripture Status

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People Group ▲	Country	Country Population	Global Population	Indigenous	Primary Religion	Progress Scale	% Christian Adherent	% Evangelical	Est. Workers Needed *
Arghun	India	100	2,300	●	Islam	0 ☀	0.00 %	0.00 %	1
Arghun	Pakistan	2,200	2,300	●	Islam	0 ☀	0.00 %	0.00 %	1
Balti	India	53,000	101,000	●	Islam	0 ☀	0.08 %	-1	1
Balti	Pakistan	48,000	101,000	●	Islam	0 ☀	0.00 %	0.00 %	1
Beda	Pakistan	400	1,000	●	Buddhism	1 ●	2.70 %	-1	1
Bedar (Muslim traditions)	Pakistan	300	300	●	Islam	0 ☀	0.00 %	0.00 %	1
Bodh (Buddhist traditions)	Pakistan	900	118,000	●	Buddhism	0 ☀	0.00 %	0.00 %	1
Broq-Pa	Pakistan	5,900	61,000	●	Buddhism	0 ☀	0.00 %	0.00 %	1
Changpa	Pakistan	200	2,900	●	Buddhism	0 ☀	0.00 %	0.00 %	1
Galleban	Pakistan	300	1,600	●	Islam	0 ☀	0.00 %	0.00 %	1
Gara	Pakistan	1,200	1,900	●	Buddhism	0 ☀	0.00 %	0.00 %	1
Jangam (Muslim traditions)	Pakistan	1,000	1,000	●	Islam	0 ☀	0.00 %	0.00 %	1
Makhmi	Pakistan	126,000	138,000	●	Islam	0 ☀	0.00 %	0.00 %	3
Mangrik	Pakistan	54,000	77,000	●	Buddhism	0 ☀	0.00 %	0.00 %	1
Mon	Pakistan	1,300	2,500	●	Buddhism	0 ☀	0.00 %	0.00 %	1
Rigzong	Pakistan	1,700	8,800	●	Buddhism	0 ☀	0.00 %	0.00 %	1
Tarakhehas	Pakistan	27,000	40,000	●	Islam	0 ☀	0.00 %	0.00 %	1
Tibetan	Pakistan	6,700	1,114,000		Buddhism	0 ☀	0.00 %	0.00 %	1
Totals: 18						18 ●			20

* 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 *
Brahmin	India	59,358,000	63,349,000	●	Hinduism	0 ☀	0.00 %	-1	1187
Broq-Pa	India	49,000	61,000	●	Islam	0 ☀	0.05 %	-1	1
Christian	Pakistan	174,000	1,583,000	●	Christianity	3 ●	100.00 %	-1	-1 -
Dhund	India	10,000	652,000	●	Islam	0 ☀	0.00 %	0.00 %	1
Galleban	India	1,300	1,600	●	Islam	0 ☀	0.00 %	0.00 %	1
Gujjar (Muslim traditions)	India	1,019,000	3,519,000	●	Islam	0 ☀	0.00 %	0.00 %	20
Gujjar (Muslim traditions)	Pakistan	2,500,000	3,519,000	●	Islam	0 ☀	0.00 %	-1	50
Kashmiri (Muslim traditions)	India	6,746,000	8,079,000	●	Islam	0 ☀	0.00 %	0.00 %	135
Kashmiri (Muslim traditions)	Pakistan	1,333,000	8,079,000	●	Islam	0 ☀	0.00 %	0.00 %	27
Mangrik	India	23,000	77,000	●	Buddhism	0 ☀	0.00 %	0.00 %	1
Mirasi (Hindu traditions)	India	213,000	213,000	●	Hinduism	1 ●	0.21 %	-1	4
Moghal	India	1,762,000	3,141,000	●	Islam	0 ☀	0.00 %	0.00 %	35
Moghal	Pakistan	1,332,000	3,141,000	●	Islam	0 ☀	0.00 %	0.00 %	27
Pashtun, Pathan	India	11,530,000	11,749,000	●	Islam	0 ☀	0.00 %	-1	231
Rajput (Hindu traditions)	India	45,746,000	45,830,000	●	Hinduism	0 ☀	0.02 %	-1	915
Rajput (Muslim traditions)	India	2,921,000	19,961,000	●	Islam	0 ☀	0.00 %	0.00 %	58
Rajput (Muslim traditions)	Pakistan	17,005,000	19,961,000	●	Islam	0 ☀	0.00 %	0.00 %	340
Saryara (Muslim traditions)	Pakistan	1,900	3,900	●	Islam	0 ☀	0.00 %	0.00 %	1
Shin	Pakistan	42,000	42,000	●	Islam	0 ☀	0.00 %	0.00 %	1
Tarakhehas	India	13,000	40,000	●	Islam	0 ☀	0.00 %	0.00 %	1
Teli (Muslim traditions)	India	1,710,000	4,650,000	●	Islam	0 ☀	0.00 %	0.00 %	34
Wattal (Muslim traditions)	India	5,800	6,000	●	Islam	0 ☀	0.00 %	0.00 %	1
Zargar (Muslim traditions)	Pakistan	9,600	14,000	●	Islam	0 ☀	0.00 %	0.00 %	1
Totals: 23						22 ●			3,072

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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%

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