Lahuli–Spiti languages

Subgroup of closely related Tibetic languages

Lahuli–Spiti
Western Innovative Tibetan
Geographic
distribution
Himachal Pradesh
Linguistic classificationSino-Tibetan
  • Tibeto-Burman
    • Tibeto-Kanauri (?)
      • Bodish
        • Tibetic
          • Lahuli–Spiti
Glottologlaha1255

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.

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

  • Lahuli (Stod Bhoti)
  • Spiti
  • Nyamkat
  • Bhoti Kinnauri
  • Tukpa (Nesang)

References

  1. ^ Indic -i suffix
  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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Western Himalayas
(Himachal, Uttarakhand, Nepal, Sikkim)
Greater Magaric
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Eastern Himalayas
(Tibet, Bhutan, Arunachal)Myanmar and Indo-Burmese border
"Naga"
Sal
East and Southeast Asia
Burmo-Qiangic
Dubious (possible isolates)
(Arunachal)
Greater Siangic
Proposed groupingsProto-languages
Italics indicates single languages that are also considered to be separate branches.
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West Himalayish
(Kanauric)
Western
Kinnauric
Lahaulic
Eastern
Central
Almora
Bodish
Tibetic
Central Tibetan
Amdo
Kham (Eastern)
Southern
Western
Ladakhi–Balti (Western Archaic)
Lahuli–Spiti (Western Innovative)
Sherpa-Jirel
Kyirong–Kagate
Tshangla-East Bodish
Tshangla
East Bodish
Basum
Tamangic
TGTM
Ghale
Kaike


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