What is Ladakhis?
{{Infobox ethnic group | group = Ladakhis | native_name = {{Bo-textonly|ལ་དྭགས་པ།}} | image = 1997 Purney, Ladakh, Inde.Irréductible.jpg | caption = A Ladakhi family photographed in 1997. | poptime = | region1 = [[India]] {{small|([[Ladakh]])}} | pop1 = 15,000 (2011) | ref1 = <ref>{{cite web|title=Ladakhi|url=https://www.ethnologue.com/language/lbj|website=Ethnologue|access-date=30 Dec 2022}}</ref> | region2 = [[China]] {{small|([[Tibet]])}} | pop2 = 12,000 (1995) | ref2 = <ref>{{cite web|title=Ladakhi|url=https://www.ethnologue.com/language/lbj|website=Ethnologue|access-date=30 Dec 2022}}</ref> | region3 = [[Pakistan]] {{small|([[Baltistan]])}} | pop3 = 900 (2019)<ref>Counted as Bodh people</ref> | ref3 = <ref>{{cite web|title=Bodh (Buddhist traditions) in Pakistan|url=https://joshuaproject.net/people_groups/16433/PK|access-date=30 Dec 2022}}</ref> | langs = [[Ladakhi language]]<!-- don't include the so-called state's official languages, it is an ethnic group, not a polity --> | rels = [[File:Buddhism symbol.PNG|15px]] [[Buddhism]]<br>[[File:Star_and_Crescent.svg|15px]] [[Shia Islam]] | related = [[Tibetan people]], [[Balti people]] | footnotes = }} '''Ladakhis''', or '''Ladakspa''' (ལ་དྭགས་པ།) are a Tibetic [[ethnic group]] living in [[India]], [[China]] and [[Pakistan]]. They speak [[Ladakhi]], which is a [[Ladakhi-Balti languages|Ladakhi-Balti language]] of the [[Sino-Tibetan languages|Sino-Tibetan language]] family. They primarily live in the [[Ladakh]] region of [[India]], [[Tibet]] in [[China]] and [[Baltistan]] in [[Pakistan]]. Most Ladakhis follow [[Tibetan Buddhism]] with many also following [[Shia Islam]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Project |first=Joshua |title=Bodh (Buddhist traditions) in Pakistan |url=https://joshuaproject.net/people_groups/16433/PK |access-date=2023-12-19 |website=joshuaproject.net |language=en}}</ref><ref