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.
Sino-Tibetan branches | |||||
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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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| 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 | |||||||||||