Lahuli–Spiti languages

{{Short description|Subgroup of closely related Tibetic languages}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=July 2019}}

{{Infobox language family

|name=Lahuli–Spiti

|altname=Western Innovative Tibetan

|region=Himachal Pradesh

|familycolor=Sino-Tibetan

|fam2=Tibeto-Burman

|fam3=Tibeto-Kanauri (?)

|fam4=Bodish

|fam5=Tibetic

|glotto=laha1255

|glottorefname=Lahauli–Spiti

}}

The Lahuli–Spiti languages the exonymIndic -i suffix for a subgroup of the Tibetic languages related to the (Stöd) Ngari Tibetan spoken in the Lahaul and Spiti region of Himachal Pradesh, India, belonging to the South-Western group of Tibetic languages, earlier classified as Western Innovative Tibetan. They are more closely related to Standard Tibetan than to the neighboring Ladakhi–Balti languages spoken further north.

According to Tournadre (2014),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. the Lahuli–Spiti languages include:

• Lahuli (Stod Bhoti)
• Spiti
• Nyamkat
• Bhoti Kinnauri
• Tukpa (Nesang)