Spiti Bhoti
Appearance
Spiti Bhoti | |
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Spiti | |
Native to | India |
Region | Himachal Pradesh |
Native speakers | 10,000 (2000)[1] |
Sino-Tibetan
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | spt |
Glottolog | spit1240 |
ELP | Spiti Bhoti |
The Spiti language, also known as Spiti Bhoti 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
- ^ Spiti Bhoti 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.