The Ladakhi language is the predominant language in the
Ladakh region of the
Jammu and Kashmir state of
India. Ladakhi is closely related to
Tibetan, and the Ladakhi people share cultural similarities with Tibetans, including
Tibetan Buddhism. Scholars disagree, but most would accord Ladakhi the status of being a separate language because Ladakhi and Tibetan are not mutually intelligible, though they share a written form. Ladakhi has approximately 200,000 speakers in India, and perhaps 12,000 speakers in the
Tibet region of
China, mostly in the Changthang region. Ladakhi has several dialects, Ladakhi proper (also called after the capital of Ladakh,
Leh, where it is spoken); Sham skat, spoken to the northwest of Leh; Stopta, spoken to the south east in the Indus valley; and Nubra, spoken in the north. A variant of Ladakhi is also spoken by most people in
Zanskar.
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