Changthang language

Changthang
	Byangskat
Native to	Jammu and Kashmir
Region	Changthang
Native speakers	10,000 (2000)[1]
Language family	Sino-Tibetan Tibeto-Kanauri ? Bodish Tibetic Ladakhi–Balti Changthang; ; ; ; ;
Writing system	Urdu script
Language codes
ISO 639-3	cna
Glottolog	chan1309[2]

Changthang, also known as Byangskat and Upper Ladakhi, is a Bodish language of the Changthang region on the border of Tibet and Ladakh. Speakers identify ethnically with the Ladakhi, but mutual intellibility of the languages is not high.

References

Changthang at Ethnologue (21st ed., 2018)
Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Changthang". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.

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[e21-1] Changthang at Ethnologue (21st ed., 2018)

[Glottolog-2] Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Changthang". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.