Spiti Bhoti

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

Spiti Bhoti is a Tibetic language spoken in Spiti valley, India. It is classified as one of the Lahauli-Spiti languages. It forms a closely knit group with other Lahuli–Spiti languages, and is fairly close to Standard Tibetan.[2]

There is a 74% lexical similarity with the related language Stod Bhoti or Lahuli.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b Spiti Bhoti at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022) Closed access icon
  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.
allikas: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiti_Bhoti_language