Lahuli–Spiti languages
| Lahuli–Spiti | |
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| Western Innovative Tibetan | |
| Geographic distribution | Himachal Pradesh |
| Linguistic classification | Sino-Tibetan |
| Glottolog | laha1255 |
The Lahuli–Spiti languages the exonym[1] for a subgroup of the Tibetic languages related to the (Stöd) Ngari Tibetan spoken in the Lahaul and Spiti region of Himachal Pradesh, India, belonging to the South-Western group of Tibetic languages, earlier classified as Western Innovative Tibetan. They are more closely related to Standard Tibetan than to the neighboring Ladakhi–Balti languages spoken further north.
According to Tournadre (2014),[2] the Lahuli–Spiti languages include:
- Lahuli (Stod Bhoti)
- Spiti
- Nyamkat
- Bhoti Kinnauri
- Tukpa (Nesang)
References
- ^ Indic -i suffix
- ^ 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.
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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| Proposed groupings | |||||
| Proto-languages | |||||
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