| Changthang | |
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| Byangskat | |
| Native to | Ladakh |
| Region | Changthang |
Native speakers | (10,000 cited 2000)[1] |
Sino-Tibetan
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| Tibetan script | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | cna |
| Glottolog | chan1309 |
Changthang, also known as Byangskat and Upper Ladakhi, is a Bodish language of the Changthang region on the border of Tibet and Ladakh. Speakers identify ethnically with the Ladakhi, but mutual intellibility of the languages is not high.
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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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Italics indicates single languages that are also considered to be separate branches. | |||||
| West Himalayish (Kanauric) |
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| Bodish |
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| Tamangic |
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