Changthang Skad, also known as Byangskat and Upper Ladakhi, is a dialect of Ladakhi language spoken in a Changthang region on the border of Tibet and Ladakh. Speakers identify ethnically with the Ladakhi, but mutual intellibility of the languages is not high. A few speakers can also be found in the Baltistan region of Pakistan.[2]
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| Byangskat | |
| Native to | Ladakh |
| Region | Changthang |
| Ethnicity | Changpa |
Native speakers | 10,000 (2000)[1] |
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Writing system | Tibetan script |
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| ISO 639-3 | cna |
| Glottolog | chan1309 |
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| Western Himalayas (Himachal, Uttarakhand, Nepal, Sikkim) |
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| Eastern Himalayas (Tibet, Bhutan, Arunachal) | |||||
| Myanmar and Indo-Burmese border |
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| East and Southeast Asia |
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| Dubious (possible isolates) (Arunachal) |
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| West Himalayish (Kanauric) |
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| Bodish |
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| Tamangic |
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