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]

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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.

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