The Ladakhi–Balti languages or Western Archaic Tibetan languages are a subgroup of the Tibetic languages spoken in the Ladakh region of India and in the Gilgit-Baltistan territory of Pakistan. The lects lack mutual intelligibility and are considered separate languages by their speakers. The grouping includes:
| Ladakhi–Balti | |
|---|---|
| Geographic distribution | Ladakh (India), Gilgit-Baltistan (Pakistan) |
| Linguistic classification | Sino-Tibetan |
| Language codes | |
| Glottolog | lada1242 |
Proto-Western Tibetan has been reconstructed by Backstrom (1994).[1]
See also
edit- List of Proto-Western Tibetan reconstructions (Wiktionary)
References
edit- ^ Backstrom, Peter Charles (1994). A phonological reconstruction of Proto-Western Tibetan (MA thesis). Arlington, Texas: University of Texas at Arlington.