Chug (also called Chugpa or Duhumbi) is a Kho-Bwa language of West Kameng district, Arunachal Pradesh in India. It is closely related to Lish.
Chug | |
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Chugpa, Duhumbi | |
Region | Arunachal Pradesh |
Ethnicity | Monpa people |
Native speakers | 600 (2017)[1] |
Language family | Sino-Tibetan?
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | cvg |
Glottolog | chug1252 |
Chug is spoken only in Chug village (population 483 in 1971), located a few miles from Dirang (Blench & Post 2011:3).[2]
Chug is spoken in Duhumbi village. [3] Despite speaking languages closely related to Mey (Sherdukpen), the people identify as Monpa, not Mey.
According to Lieberherr & Bodt (2017),[1] Chug is spoken by 600 people in 3 main villages.
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Western Himalayas (Himachal, Uttarakhand, Nepal, Sikkim) |
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Eastern Himalayas (Tibet, Bhutan, Arunachal) | |||||
Myanmar and Indo-Burmese border |
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East and Southeast Asia |
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Dubious (possible isolates) (Arunachal) |
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Proposed groupings |
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Proto-languages |
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Italics indicates single languages that are also considered to be separate branches. |
Arunachal languages | |||||||||||
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Greater Siangic |
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Hrusish | |||||||||||
Kho-Bwa |
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Miju–Meyor |