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{{Infobox language<br />
|name=Stod Bhoti<br />
|altname=<br />
| nativename = སཏོད་པ ''sTodpa''<br />
|states=[[India]]<br />
|region=[[Himachal Pradesh]]<br />
|familycolor=Sino-Tibetan<br />
|speakers={{sigfig|2,500|2}}<br />
|date=1996<br />
|ref=e24<br />
|fam2=[[Tibeto-Kanauri languages|Tibeto-Kanauri]] ?<br />
|fam3=[[Bodish languages|Bodish]]<br />
|fam4=[[Tibetic languages|Tibetic]]<br />
|fam5=[[Lahuli–Spiti languages|Lahuli–Spiti]]<br />
|iso3=sbu<br />
|glotto=stod1241<br />
|glottorefname=Stod Bhoti<br />
}}<br />
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'''Stod Bhoti''' (''sTodpa''), occasionally known as ''Lahul Bhoti'' or ''Lahuli'', is a [[Tibetic language]] spoken in the [[Lahaul and Spiti district]] of [[Himachal Pradesh]], India. It forms a closely knit group with other [[Lahuli–Spiti languages]], and is fairly close to [[Standard Tibetan]].<ref>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.</ref><br />
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According to ''Ethnologue'', dialects are Stod proper (Kolong), Khoksar (i.e. Khoksar Bhoti) and Mayar (Mayar Bhoti, or Mayari). They report 85% intelligibility of the Stod dialect by Khoksar, 75% by Mayar, 62% of Khoksar by Mayar, and 95% of Khoksar by Stod Bhoti. There is a 74% lexical similarity with the related language [[Spiti Bhoti]].<ref name=e24/><br />
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== History ==<br />
The area of Lahaul where the language is spoken was named "Kothi Kolong" after Kolong, the chief village of the Kothi.{{what|date=August 2021}} Grierson termed the language the "Lahaul dialect". <br />
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The language was first studied after the foundation of a Moravian Church mission office in 1854. In 1881, H.A. Jaeschke published a Tibetan–English dictionary that included a comparative table of words from different languages spoken in the region, including Stod Bhoti, but without explicitly mentioning the name of the language.<br />
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In 1934, Roerich studied this language extensively, naming it 'Kolong' after its chief village.<br />
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The [[People's Linguistic Survey of India]] (PLSI) identified two prominent features of the language: a distinct tone and simplification of compound consonants.<ref>{{Cite book|title=PLSI Languages of Himachal Pradesh Part 2|publisher=Orient Blackswan}}</ref> A grammar book has also been published.<ref>{{Cite book|author=Tobdan|title=A Grammar of sTodpa (A Language of Lahul in the Western Himalaya)|publisher=Amrit Books|year=2015|isbn=9788192444659|location=Kaithal}}</ref><br />
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