Bhoti Kinnauri
Native toIndia
RegionHimachal Pradesh
Native speakers
6,800 (2000)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3nes
Glottologbhot1235

Bhoti Kinnauri (or Nyamkat, or the Nyam language) is a Tibetic language spoken in the Lahaul and Spiti region of Himachal Pradesh, India. It forms a closely knit group with other Lahuli–Spiti languages, and is fairly close to Standard Tibetan.[2]

See also

References

  1. Bhoti Kinnauri at Ethnologue (23rd ed., 2020) Closed access icon
  2. 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.

Bibliography

  • Sharma, D. D. (1992), "Nyamkad (Nyam-kat)", Tribal Languages of Himachal Pradesh: Part Two, New Delhi: Mittal Publications, pp. 97–196
  • Saxena, Anju (2022), "A Linguistic Sketch of Navakat", The linguistic landscape of the Indian Himalayas: Languages in Kinnaur, Leiden: Brill, pp. 169–271


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