The Lahuli–Spiti or Western Innovative Tibetan languages are a subgroup of the Tibetic languages spoken in the Lahaul and Spiti region of Himachal Pradesh, India. They are more closely related to Standard Tibetan than to the neighboring Ladakhi–Balti languages spoken further north.
Lahuli–Spiti | |
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Western Innovative Tibetan | |
Geographic distribution | Himachal Pradesh |
Linguistic classification | Sino-Tibetan |
Glottolog | laha1255 |
According to Tournadre (2014),[1] the Lahuli–Spiti languages include:
Sino-Tibetan branches | |||||
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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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Proposed groupings | |||||
Proto-languages |
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Italics indicates single languages that are also considered to be separate branches. |
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West Himalayish (Kanauric) |
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Bodish |
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Tamangic |
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