Lahuli–Spiti language

Lahuli–Spiti
Spiti Bhoti
Native to	India
Region	Himachal Pradesh
Native speakers	30,000 (1996–2000)[1]
Language family	Sino-Tibetan Tibeto-Kanauri ? Bodish Tibetic (Western Innovative) Lahuli–Spiti
Language codes
ISO 639-3	Variously: spt – Spiti Bhoti, Nyam jda – Jad sbu – Stod Bhoti cna – Changthang nes – Bhoti Kinnauri tpq – Tukpa
Glottolog	laha1255[2]

Lahuli–Spiti is a small group of Tibetic languages spoken in Lahaul and Spiti region of India. It is more closely related to Standard Tibetan than it is to the neighboring Ladakhi, which is spoken to the north in the Ladakh region of Jammu and Kashmir.

According to Tournadre (2005), the dialects of Lahuli–Spiti are:^[3]

• Lahuli (Stod Bhoti)
• Spiti
• Nyamkat
• Changthang

Bhoti Kinnauri and Tukpa (Nesang) may also belong here.

References

1. Spiti Bhoti, Nyam at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
   Jad at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
   Stod Bhoti at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
   Changthang at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
   Bhoti Kinnauri at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
   Tukpa at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Lahauli–Spiti". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
3. N. Tournadre (2005) "L'aire linguistique tibétaine et ses divers dialectes." Lalies, 2005, n°25, p. 7–56