Ladakhi–Balti languages

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. The lects lack mutual intelligibility and are considered separate languages by their speakers. The group includes:

Ladakhi–Balti
Geographic
distribution
Ladakh (India), Gilgit-Baltistan (Pakistan)
Linguistic classificationSino-Tibetan
Glottologlada1242

Proto-Western Tibetan has been reconstructed by Backstrom (1994).[1]

See also

References

  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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