Ladakhi–Balti languages
The Ladakhi–Balti languages or Western Archaic Tibetan languages are a subgroup of the Tibetic languages spoken in the Ladakh region of India and in the Gilgit-Baltistan territory of Pakistan. The lects lack mutual intelligibility and are considered separate languages by their speakers. The group includes:
- Ladakhi (Ladakh)
- Zangskari (Ladakh)
- Purki (Ladakh)
- Balti (Gilgit-Baltistan)
- Changthang
Ladakhi–Balti | |
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Geographic distribution | Ladakh (India), Gilgit-Baltistan (Pakistan) |
Linguistic classification | Sino-Tibetan |
Glottolog | lada1242[1] |
Proto-Western Tibetan has been reconstructed by Backstrom (1994).[2]
See also
- List of Proto-Western Tibetan reconstructions (Wiktionary)
References
- Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Western Archaic Tibetan". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- Backstrom, Peter Charles (1994). A phonological reconstruction of Proto-Western Tibetan (MA thesis). Arlington, Texas: University of Texas at Arlington.
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