Bhoti Kinnauri

Tibetic language of India

Bhoti Kinnauri
Native toIndia
RegionHimachal Pradesh
Native speakers
6,800 (2000)[1]
Language family
Sino-Tibetan
  • Tibeto-Burman
Language codes
ISO 639-3nes
Glottologbhot1235

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]

See also

  • Bodh people

References

  1. ^ Bhoti Kinnauri at Ethnologue (23rd ed., 2020) Closed access icon
  2. ^ 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

  • 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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