Spiti Bhoti

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Spiti Bhoti
Spiti
Native toIndia
RegionHimachal Pradesh
Native speakers
10,000 (2000)[1]
Sino-Tibetan
Language codes
ISO 639-3spt
Glottologspit1240
ELPSpiti 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[]

  1. ^ Spiti Bhoti at Ethnologue (23rd ed., 2020)
  2. ^ 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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