Changthang language

Changthang
ཆངཐང་སཀད
Native toIndia, China
RegionChangthang
EthnicityChangpa
Native speakers
(10,000 cited 2000)
Tibetan script
Language codes
ISO 639-3cna
Glottologchan1309

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.