Lahuli–Spiti_languages

Lahuli–Spiti languages

Lahuli–Spiti languages

Subgroup of closely related Tibetic languages

The Lahuli–Spiti languages the exonym[1] for a subgroup of the Tibetic languages related to the (Stöd) Ngari Tibetan spoken in the Lahaul and Spiti region of Himachal Pradesh, India, belonging to the South-Western group of Tibetic languages, earlier classified as Western Innovative Tibetan. They are more closely related to Standard Tibetan than to the neighboring Ladakhi–Balti languages spoken further north.

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According to Tournadre (2014),[2] the Lahuli–Spiti languages include:

References

  1. [1]
    Indic -i suffix
  2. [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.


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