What is Ladakhi?
{{Infobox language | name = Ladakhi | nativename = {{lang|lbj|ལ་དྭགས་སྐད།}} | states = [[India]], [[China]], [[Pakistan]] | region = [[Ladakh]], [[Tibet]], [[Baltistan]] | speakers = 27,000 | date = 2011 | speakers2 = | ethnicity = [[Ladakhis]] | familycolor = Sino-Tibetan | fam2 = ([[Tibeto-Burman languages|Tibeto-Burman]]) | fam3 = [[Tibeto-Kanauri languages|Tibeto-Kanauri]] | fam4 = [[Bodish languages|Bodish]] | fam5 = [[Tibetic languages|Tibetic]] | fam6 = Ladakhi–Balti | script = [[Tibetan script]] | lc1 = lbj | ld1 = Ladakhi | lc2 = zau | ld2 = [[Zangskari dialect|Zangskari]] | ref = <ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.censusindia.gov.in/2011Census/Language_MTs.html|title=Statement 1: Abstract of speakers' strength of languages and mother tongues – 2011|publisher=Office of the Registrar General & Census Commissioner, India|website=www.censusindia.gov.in|access-date=15 June 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Ladakhi|url=https://www.ethnologue.com/language/lbj|website=Ethnologue|access-date=30 Dec 2022}}</ref> }} '''Ladakhi''' (ལ་དྭགས་སྐད་) is a language spoken by the [[Ladakhi people|Ladakhi]] people in [[India]], [[Pakistan]], and [[China]]. Ladakhi is closely related to [[Balti language|Balti]], a language spoken in the neighboring region of [[Baltistan]] in [[Pakistan]]. The two major dialects of Ladakhi are [[Zangskari language|Zangskari]] and [[Changthang language|Changthang]].<ref>{{cite journal | url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/23658103.pdf | jstor=23658103 | title=The Ladakhi Language and ITS Regional Perspectives | last1=Koshal | first1=Sanyukta | journal=Acta Orientalia Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae | year=1990 | volume=44 | issue=1/2 | pages=13–22 }}</ref> The Ladakhi language is also locally known as ''Bhoti'' or ''Bhotia'' and has been known by that by the Indian government.<ref>{{ci