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22-608: K5 , K05 or K-5 may be: Places [ edit ] Gasherbrum I , the 11th highest mountain peak in the world K-5 (Kansas highway) , a state highway in Kansas K5 Plan , vast defensive belt along the Cambodian-Thai border Transportation [ edit ] Wings of Alaska , IATA airline designator Kinner K-5 , a light general and sport aircraft engine Vehicles [ edit ] HMS  K5 ,

44-461: A 1969-91 full size SUV Kia Optima , a car branded as K5 in some markets Weaponry [ edit ] Daewoo Precision Industries K5 , a pistol used by the South Korean military Krupp K5 , a railway gun of World War II Germany Kaliningrad K-5 , a Soviet-era air-to-air missile K-5 (SLBM) , a submarine-launched ballistic missile Technology [ edit ] AMD K5 ,

66-435: A CPU chip released in the 1990s Kerberos protocol version 5 Pentax K-5 , a digital SLR camera released in 2010 by Hoya Corporation kuro5hin , a collaborative discussion website Knightscope , a surveillance robot Other [ edit ] K5 (band) , Breakbeat artists Ibanez K5 , the signature bass for KoRn's bassist Fieldy K-5 (education) , kindergarten through grade 5 K 5 , in graph theory,

88-469: A Royal Navy submarine sunk in 1921 HMS  Lobelia  (K05) or FFL  Lobelia  (K05) , a 1940 British Royal Navy then Free French Navy Flower-class corvette USS  K-5  (SS-36) , a 1914 United States Navy K-class submarine PRR K5 , a 1929 American experimental 4-6-2 "Pacific" type steam locomotive LNER Class K5 , a class of British steam locomotives GSR Class K5 , an 1894 Irish steam locomotive Chevrolet K5 Blazer ,

110-609: A complex and distinct pitch system that includes tone contour . Due to effects of dominant languages in Pakistani media like Urdu, Punjabi and English and religious impact of Arabic and Persian languages, Balti, like other regional languages of Pakistan, is continuously expanding its vocabulary base with loanwords . Balti is spoken in most parts of Gilgit-Baltistan in Pakistan and Kargil and Nubra Ladakh in India . According to

132-527: A few examples: Other than proverb collections, no prose literature has been found written in Balti. Some epics and sagas appear in oral literature such as the Epic of King Gesar and the stories of rgya lu cho lo bzang and rgya lu sras bu . All other literature is in verse. Balti literature has adopted numerous Persian styles of verse and vocables which amplify the beauty and melody of its poetry. Nearly all

154-916: A request from this community, the September 2006 Tokyo meeting of ISO/IEC 10646 WG2 agreed to encode two characters invented by Abadi (U+0F6B TIBETAN LETTER KKA and TIBETAN U+0F6C LETTER RRA) in the ISO 10646 and Unicode standards in order to support rendering Urdu loanwords present in modern Balti using the Yige alphabet. Since Pakistan gained control of the region in 1948, Urdu words have been introduced into local dialects and languages, including Balti. In modern times, Balti has no native names or vocabulary for dozens of newly invented and introduced things; instead, Urdu and English words are being used in Balti. Balti has retained many honorific words that are characteristic of Tibetan dialects and many other languages. Below are

176-520: Is yuq in other varieties, but juq in the southern dialect of Kharmang and Kargil. Similarly, milk is oma in the eastern Chorbat-Nubra, the central Khaplu, and the southern Kharmang-Kargil varieties, but ona in the western dialect of Skardu, Shigar, and Rondu valley. The four variants or dialects of Balti are: The predominant writing system currently in use for Balti is the Perso-Arabic script , although there have been attempts to revive

198-674: Is a Tibetic language natively spoken by the ethnic Balti people in the Baltistan region of Gilgit-Baltistan , Nubra Valley of the Leh district and in the Kargil district of Ladakh , India . The language differs from Standard Tibetan ; many sounds of Old Tibetan that were lost in Standard Tibetan are retained in the Balti language. It also has a simple pitch accent system only in multi-syllabic words while Standard Tibetan has

220-786: Is also spoken by immigrants in Karachi , Lahore , Peshawar , Islamabad , Quetta , and other cities of Pakistan. In India, it is found in Dehradun , Nainital , Ambari, Shimla, Vikasnagar , and other northern cities among speakers who migrated from Baltistan, Kargil, and Nubra before the partition of India and Pakistan. Historically, Buddhists in Leh have referred to all Muslims in Ladakh as Balti. The Balti language has four variants or dialects. Despite differences in pronunciation of vocabulary, they are mutually intelligible . For example, to keep

242-457: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Gasherbrum I Gasherbrum I ( Balti : རྒ་ཥཱ་བྲུམ་། - ༡ , romanized:  rgasha brum - 1 , lit.   'Beautiful Mountain - 1'; Urdu : گاشر برم - ۱ ; simplified Chinese : 加舒尔布鲁木I峰 ; traditional Chinese : 加舒爾布魯木I峰 ; pinyin : Jiāshūěrbùlǔmù I Fēng ), surveyed as K5 and also known as Hidden Peak ,

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264-404: Is its centuries-long isolation from Tibet and even from its immediate neighbor, Ladakh, due to political divisions and strong religious differences. Separated from its linguistic kin, Balti is under pressure from more dominant languages such as Urdu . This is compounded by the lack of a suitable means of transcription following the abandonment of its original Tibetan script. The Baltis do not have

286-697: Is the 11th highest mountain in the world at 8,080 metres (26,510 ft) above sea level. It is located between Shigar District in the Gilgit–Baltistan region of Pakistan and Tashkurgan in the Xinjiang of China. Gasherbrum I is part of the Gasherbrum Massif , located in the Karakoram region of the Himalaya . Gasherbrum is often claimed to mean "Shining Wall", presumably a reference to

308-590: The Gilgit-Baltistan Scouts , the language is mostly found in the Skardu, Shigar, Ghanche, Roundu, and Kharmang parts of Gilgit-Baltistan. In the twin districts of Ladakh region ( Kargil and Leh ), it is spoken in Kargil city and its surrounding villages like Hardass, Lato, Karkitchhoo, and Balti Bazar, as well as in Turtuk , Bogdang , and Tyakshi , including Leh city and nearby villages. Balti

330-603: The Tibetan script , which was used between the 8th and the 16th centuries. Additionally, there are two, nowadays possibly extinct, indigenous writing systems and there have been proposals for the adoption of Latin script - as well as Devanagari -based orthographies that were adjusted for writing Balti by the Central Institute of Indian Languages in the 1970s. In 1985, Yusuf Hussain Abadi added four new letters to

352-639: The Perso-Arabic script replaced the Tibetan script, but the former had no letters for seven Balti sounds and was in vogue despite being defective. Adding the seven new letters has now made it a complete script for Balti. Recently, a number of Balti scholars and social activists have attempted to promote the use of the Tibetan Balti or "Yige" alphabet with the aim of helping to preserve indigenous Balti and Ladakhi culture and ethnic identity. Following

374-529: The Tibetan script and seven new letters to the Perso-Arabic script to adapt both of them to the needs of the Balti language. Two of the four added letters now stand included in the Tibetan Unicode block. Balti was written with a version of the Tibetan script from 727 AD, when Baltistan was conquered by Tibetans, until the last quarter of the 14th century, when the Baltis converted to Islam. Subsequently,

396-450: The alternate name, Hidden Peak, in reference to its extreme remoteness. Gasherbrum I was first climbed on July 5, 1958, by Pete Schoening and Andy Kauffman of an eight-man American expedition led by Nicholas B. Clinch , Richard K. Irvin, Tom Nevison, Tom McCormack, Bob Swift and Gil Roberts were also members of the team. Balti language Balti ( Nastaʿlīq script : بلتی , Tibetan script : སྦལ་ཏི།, Wylie : sbal ti )

418-832: The complete graph used in Kuratowski's theorem KING5 , a television station in Seattle, Washington, USA The former branding of KFVE-TV (now KHII-TV ), a television station in Honolulu, Hawaii KHNL , a television station in Honolulu, Hawaii that currently carries "K5" branding on subchannel K5 Global , a media and financial investment-advisory firm See also [ edit ] [REDACTED] Search for "K-5"  or "K5" on Misplaced Pages. KKKKK (disambiguation) 5K (disambiguation) All pages with titles containing K-5 All pages with titles containing K5 [REDACTED] Topics referred to by

440-708: The highly visible face of the neighboring peak Gasherbrum IV ; but in fact, it comes from "rgasha" (beautiful) + "brum" (mountain) in Balti , hence it actually means "beautiful mountain." Gasherbrum I was designated K5 (meaning the 5th peak of the Karakoram ) by T.G. Montgomerie in 1856 when he first spotted the peaks of the Karakoram from more than 200 km away during the Great Trigonometric Survey of India. In 1892, William Martin Conway provided

462-471: The languages and dialects of the mountain region in the north of Pakistan such as Pashto , Khowar and Shina are Indo-Aryan or Iranic languages , but Balti is one of the Sino-Tibetan languages . As such, it has nothing in common with neighboring languages except some loanwords absorbed as a result of linguistic contact. Balti and Ladakhi are closely related. The major issue facing Balti literature

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484-447: The same term This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the same title formed as a letter–number combination. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=K5&oldid=1181618892 " Category : Letter–number combination disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description

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