Changthang language

Changthang
Changthang
ཆངཐང་སཀད
Native to	India, China
Region	Changthang
Ethnicity	Changpa
Native speakers	(10,000 cited 2000)
Language family	Sino-Tibetan Tibeto-Burman Tibeto-Kanauri (?) Bodish Tibetic Ladakhi–Balti Ladakhi Changthang; ; ; ; ; ; ;
Writing system	Tibetan script
Language codes
ISO 639-3	cna
Glottolog	chan1309

Last updated January 02, 2026

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 of the language are known as Changpa and identify ethnically with the Ladakhis, but mutual intelligibility of the languages is not high.^[2]

References

↑ Changthang at Ethnologue (21st ed., 2018)
↑ "List of Scheduled Tribes". Census of India: Government of India. 7 March 2007. Archived from the original on 5 June 2010. Retrieved 27 November 2012.

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[e21-1] Changthang at Ethnologue (21st ed., 2018)

[2] "List of Scheduled Tribes". Census of India: Government of India. 7 March 2007. Archived from the original on 5 June 2010. Retrieved 27 November 2012.

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