Lahuli–Spiti languages
The Lahuli–Spiti or Western Innovative Tibetan languages are a subgroup of the Tibetic languages spoken in the Lahaul and Spiti region of Himachal Pradesh, India. They are more closely related to Standard Tibetan than to the neighboring Ladakhi–Balti languages spoken further north.
| Lahuli–Spiti | |
|---|---|
| Western Innovative Tibetan | |
| Geographic distribution | Himachal Pradesh |
| Linguistic classification | Sino-Tibetan |
| Glottolog | laha1255[1] |
According to Tournadre (2014),[2] the Lahuli–Spiti languages include:
- Lahuli (Stod Bhoti)
- Spiti
- Nyamkat
- Bhoti Kinnauri
- Tukpa (Nesang)
References
- Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Lahauli–Spiti". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- Nicolas Tournadre. 2014. The Tibetic languages and their classification. In Nathan W. Hill and Thomas Owen-Smith (eds.), Trans-Himalayan Linguistics: Historical and Descriptive Linguistics of the Himalayan Area, 105–129. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton.
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