Spiti Bhoti is a Tibetic language spoken in Spiti valley, India. It is classified as one of the Lahauli-Spiti languages. It forms a closely knit group with other Lahuli–Spiti languages, and is fairly close to Standard Tibetan.[2]
There is a 74% lexical similarity with the related language Stod Bhoti or Lahuli.[1]
References
- ^ a b Spiti Bhoti at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)
- ^ 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.