Stod Bhoti
| Stod Bhoti | |
|---|---|
| སྟོད་པ་sTodpa | |
| Native to | India |
| Region | Himachal Pradesh |
Native speakers | (2,500 cited 1996) |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | sbu |
| Glottolog | stod1241 |
Stod Bhoti (sTodpa), occasionally known as Lahul Bhoti or Lahuli, is a Tibetic language spoken in the Lahaul and Spiti district of Himachal Pradesh, India. It forms a closely knit group with other Lahuli–Spiti languages, and is fairly close to Standard Tibetan.
According to Ethnologue, dialects are Stod proper (Kolong), Khoksar (i.e. Khoksar Bhoti) and Mayar (Mayar Bhoti, or Mayari). They report 85% intelligibility of the Stod dialect by Khoksar, 75% by Mayar, 62% of Khoksar by Mayar, and 95% of Khoksar by Stod Bhoti. There is a 74% lexical similarity with the related language Spiti Bhoti.