Changthang language
| Changthang | |
|---|---|
| ཆངཐང་སཀད | |
| Native to | China, India, Pakistan |
| Region | Tibet, Ladakh, Baltistan |
| Ethnicity | Changpa |
Native speakers | 10,000 (2000)[1] |
| Tibetan script, Arabic Script | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | cna |
| Glottolog | chan1309 |
Changthang Skad, also known as Byangskat or Upper Ladakhi, (Ladakhi: ཆངཐང་སཀད) is a dialect of Ladakhi language spoken in a Changthang region on the border of Tibet, Ladakh and Baltistan. Speakers identify ethnically with the Ladakhi, but mutual intellibility of the languages is not high. A few speakers can also be found in the Baltistan region of Pakistan.[2]
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Sino-Tibetan branches | |||||
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| Western Himalayas (Himachal, Uttarakhand, Nepal, Sikkim) |
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| Eastern Himalayas (Tibet, Bhutan, Arunachal) | |||||
| Myanmar and Indo-Burmese border |
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| East and Southeast Asia |
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| Dubious (possible isolates) (Arunachal) |
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Italics indicates single languages that are also considered to be separate branches. | |||||