Spiti Bhoti

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

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[edit]

  1. Template:Ethnologue23
  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.