Ladakhi–Balti languages

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Ladakhi–Balti
Geographic
distribution		Ladakh (India), Gilgit-Baltistan (Pakistan)
Linguistic classificationSino-Tibetan
Glottologlada1242

The Ladakhi–Balti languages or Western Archaic Tibetan languages are a subgroup of the Tibetic languages spoken in the Ladakh region of India and in the Gilgit-Baltistan territory of Pakistan. Except Balti and Purgi others lack mutual intelligibility and are considered separate languages by their speakers. The group includes:

  • Ladakhi or Bauti/Bhoti (Ladakh)
  • Zangskari (Ladakh)
  • Purgi (Ladakh)
  • Balti (Gilgit-Baltistan, Ladakh)
  • Changthang (Ladakh)

Proto-Western Tibetan has been reconstructed by Backstrom (1994).[1]

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References[]

  1. ^ Backstrom, Peter Charles (1994). A phonological reconstruction of Proto-Western Tibetan (MA thesis). Arlington, Texas: University of Texas at Arlington.
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