Key facts
- Native to
- India
- Region
- Ladakh
- Ethnicity
- Ladakhis
- Native speakers
- 110,826 (2011 Census)
- Language family
- Sino-Tibetan Tibeto-Burman Tibeto-Kanauri (?) Bodish Tibetic Ladakhi–Balti Ladakhi
- Writing system
- Tibetan script
- Official language in
- India Ladakh
- Iso 639 3
- Either:, lbj – Ladakhi, zau – Zangskari
- Glottolog
- kenh1234
- Elp
- Ladakhi
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Encyclopedic overview
The Ladakhi language is a Tibetic language spoken in the Indian union territory of Ladakh. It is the predominant language in the Buddhist-dominated district of Leh, and a minority language in the district of Kargil.
Ladakhi has several dialects: Lehskat, named after Leh where it is spoken, Shamskat, spoken northwest of Leh, Stotskat, spoken in the Indus valley and which unlike the others is tonal, Nubra, spoken north of Leh, the Changthang language, spoken in the Changtang region by the Changpa people, and the Zangskari language, spoken in the Zanskar region of Ladakh.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Ladakhi” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.