Ladakhi–Balti languages

Ladakhi–Balti
Ladakhi–Balti
Geographic; distribution	Ladakh (India), Gilgit-Baltistan (Pakistan)
Linguistic classification	Sino-Tibetan Tibeto-Kanauri ? Bodish Tibetic Ladakhi–Balti; ; ; ;
Glottolog	lada1242

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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]

References[edit]

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

[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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