Changthang | |
Nativename: | Byangskat, چانگتھانگ |
States: | India, China, Pakistan |
Ethnicity: | Changpa |
Region: | Changthang |
Date: | 2000 |
Ref: | e21 |
Familycolor: | Sino-Tibetan |
Fam2: | Tibeto-Burman |
Fam3: | Tibeto-Kanauri (?) |
Fam4: | Bodish |
Fam5: | Tibetic |
Fam6: | Ladakhi–Balti |
Fam7: | Ladakhi |
Script: | Tibetan script (official), Perso-Arabic script (in Pakistan) |
Iso3: | cna |
Glotto: | chan1309 |
Glottorefname: | Changthang |
Changthang Skad, also known as Byangskat and Upper Ladakhi, is a dialect of Ladakhi language spoken in a Changthang region on the border of Tibet and Ladakh. Speakers identify ethnically with the Ladakhi, but mutual intelligibility of the languages is not high. A few speakers can also be found in the Baltistan region of Pakistan.[1]