Bhoti Kinnauri (or Nyamkat, or the Nyam language) is a
Tibetic language spoken in the
Lahaul and Spiti region of
Himachal Pradesh
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,
India
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. It forms a closely knit group with other
Lahuli–Spiti languages, and is fairly close to
Standard Tibetan
Lhasa Tibetan (), or Standard Tibetan, is the Tibetan dialect spoken by educated people of Lhasa, the capital of the Tibetan Autonomous Region of China. It is an official language of the Tibet Autonomous Region.
In the traditional "three-branc ...
.
[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.]
See also
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Bodh people
References
Languages of India
Bodish languages
Endangered languages of India
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