The Bhoti spoken in Spiti valley, India, is a Tibetic language and is further classified as one of the Lahauli-Spiti languages.
| Spiti Bhoti | |
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| Spiti | |
| Native to | India |
| Region | Himachal Pradesh |
Native speakers | 5,000 (2000)[1] |
Language family | Sino-Tibetan
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | spt |
| Glottolog | spit1240 |
| ELP | Spiti Bhoti |
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 |
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| Proto-languages |
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Italics indicates single languages that are also considered to be separate branches. | |||||
Bodic (Tibeto-Kanauri) languages | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| West Himalayish (Kanauric) |
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| Bodish |
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| Tamangic |
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