Ladakhi–Balti languages

Ladakhi–Balti
Native to	India, Pakistan
Region	Jammu and Kashmir (India); Gilgit-Baltistan (Pakistan)
Language family	Sino-Tibetan Tibeto-Kanauri ? Bodish Tibetic Ladakhi–Balti; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	Variously:; lbj – Ladakhi; zau – Zangskari; prx – Purki; bft – Balti
Glottolog	lada1242[1]

The Ladakhi–Balti languages or Western Archaic Tibetan languages are a subgroup of the Tibetic languages spoken in Jammu and Kashmir, India and Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan. The lects lack mutual intelligibility and are considered separate languages by their speakers. The grouping includes:

Ladakhi (Jammu and Kashmir)
Zangskari (Jammu and Kashmir)
Purki (Jammu and Kashmir)
Balti (Gilgit-Baltistan)

Proto-Western Tibetan has been reconstructed by Backstrom (1994).^[2]

References

↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "North-Western Tibetic". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
↑ Backstrom, Peter Charles (1994). A phonological reconstruction of Proto-Western Tibetan (MA thesis). Arlington, Texas: University of Texas at Arlington.

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[Glottolog-1] Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "North-Western Tibetic". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.

[2] Backstrom, Peter Charles (1994). A phonological reconstruction of Proto-Western Tibetan (MA thesis). Arlington, Texas: University of Texas at Arlington.