| Lahuli–Spiti | |
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| Western Innovative Tibetan | |
| Geographic distribution | Himachal Pradesh |
| Linguistic classification | Sino-Tibetan |
| Language codes | |
| Glottolog | laha1255 |
TheLahuli–Spiti languages the exonym[1] for a subgroup of theTibetic languages related to the(Stöd) Ngari Tibetan spoken in theLahaul and Spiti region ofHimachal Pradesh,India, belonging to the South-Western group of Tibetic languages, earlier classified as Western Innovative Tibetan. They are more closely related toStandard Tibetan than to the neighboringLadakhi–Balti languages spoken further north.
According to Tournadre (2014),[2] the Lahuli–Spiti languages include:
Sino-Tibetan branches | |||||
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| WesternHimalayas (Himachal, Uttarakhand,Nepal,Sikkim) |
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| EasternHimalayas (Tibet,Bhutan,Arunachal) | |||||
| Myanmar and Indo- Burmese border |
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| East andSoutheast Asia |
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| Dubious (possible isolates,Arunachal) |
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Italics indicates single languages that are also considered to be separate branches. | |||||
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