Lahuli–Spiti languages

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Lahuli–Spiti
Western Innovative Tibetan
Geographic
distribution
Himachal Pradesh
Linguistic classificationSino-Tibetan
Glottologlaha1255

The Lahuli–Spiti or Western Innovative Tibetan languages are a subgroup of the Tibetic languages spoken in the Lahaul and Spiti region of Himachal Pradesh, India. They are more closely related to Standard Tibetan than to the neighboring Ladakhi–Balti languages spoken further north.

According to Tournadre (2014),[1] the Lahuli–Spiti languages include:

References[]

  1. ^ 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.


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