Nyamkat language
Appearance
Nyamkat | |
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Nyam | |
Native to | India |
Region | Himachal Pradesh |
Native speakers | (unknown, counted as Spiti Bhoti or Tukpa[1] |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | (counted as Spiti Bhoti or Tukpa) |
Glottolog | None |
Nyamkat, or the Nyam language, is a Tibetic language spoken in the Lahaul and Spiti region of Himachal Pradesh, India. It forms a closely knit group with other Lahuli–Spiti languages, and is fairly close to Standard Tibetan.[2]
References
- ^ Nyamkat at Ethnologue (23rd ed., 2020)
- ^ 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.