| Changthang | |
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| ཆངཐང་སཀད | |
| Native to | India,China |
| Region | Changthang |
| Ethnicity | Changpa |
Native speakers | (10,000 cited 2000)[1] |
| Tibetan script | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | cna |
| Glottolog | chan1309 |
Changthang Skad, also known asByangskat andUpper Ladakhi, is a dialect ofLadakhi language spoken in aChangthang region on the border of Tibet and Ladakh. Speakers of the language are known asChangpa and identify ethnically with the Ladakhis, but mutual intelligibility of the languages is not high.[2]
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. | |||||