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