Spiti Bhoti

Spiti Bhoti
	Spiti
Native to	India
Region	Himachal Pradesh
Native speakers	10,000 (2000)[1]
Language family	Sino-Tibetan Tibeto-Kanauri ? Bodish Tibetic Lahuli–Spiti Spiti–Jad Spiti Bhoti; ; ; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	spt
Glottolog	spit1240

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

Spiti Bhoti at Ethnologue (23nd ed., 2020)
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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