Changthang | |
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Byangskat, چانگتھانگ | |
Native to | India, China, Pakistan |
Region | Changthang |
Ethnicity | Changpa |
Native speakers | 10,000 (2000) [1] |
Sino-Tibetan
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Tibetan script (official), Perso-Arabic script (in Pakistan) | |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 |
cna |
Glottolog |
chan1309 |
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. [2]