Ladakhi–Balti languages

The Ladakhi–Balti languages or Western Archaic Tibetan languages are a subgroup of the Tibetic languages spoken in the Ladakh region of India and in the Gilgit-Baltistan territory of Pakistan. The lects lack mutual intelligibility and are considered separate languages by their speakers. The grouping includes:


 * Ladakhi (Ladakh, Tibet, Baltistan)
 * Purgi (Ladakh, Baltistan)
 * Balti (Baltistan, Ladakh)

Proto-Western Tibetan has been reconstructed by Backstrom (1994).