Bhoti Kinnauri (or Nyamkat, or the Nyam language) is a Tibetic language spoken in the Lahaul and Spiti region of Himachal Pradesh, India. It forms a closely knit group with other Lahuli–Spiti languages, and is fairly close to Standard Tibetan.[2]
| Bhoti Kinnauri | |
|---|---|
| Native to | India |
| Region | Himachal Pradesh |
Native speakers | 6,800 (2000)[1] |
Sino-Tibetan
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | nes |
| Glottolog | bhot1235 |
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ Bhoti Kinnauri at Ethnologue (23rd ed., 2020)
- ^ Nicolas Tournadre. 2014. The Tibetic languages and their classification. In Nathan W. Hill and Thomas Owen-Smith (eds.), Trans-Himalayan Linguistics: Historical and Descriptive Linguistics of the Himalayan Area, 105–129. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton.
Bibliography
edit- Sharma, D. D. (1992), "Nyamkad (Nyam-kat)", Tribal Languages of Himachal Pradesh: Part Two, New Delhi: Mittal Publications, pp. 97–196
- Saxena, Anju (2022), "A Linguistic Sketch of Navakat", The linguistic landscape of the Indian Himalayas: Languages in Kinnaur, Leiden: Brill, pp. 169–271
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