Chug language

Chug (also called Chugpa or Duhumbi) is a Kho-Bwa language of West Kameng district, Arunachal Pradesh in India. It is a dialect of the same language as Lish and Gompatse.

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.

1. ^ ^{a b} Lieberherr, Ismael; Bodt, Timotheus Adrianus. 2017. Sub-grouping Kho-Bwa based on shared core vocabulary. In Himalayan Linguistics, 16(2).
2. ^ Roger Blench and Mark Post. 2011. (De)classifying Arunachal languages: Reconsidering the evidence.
3. ^ Blench, Roger. 2015. The Mey languages and their classification. Presentation given at the University of Sydney.
4. ^ ^{a b} Bodt, Timotheus A. (2020). van Driem, George L. (ed.). "Grammar of Duhumbi (Chugpa)". Languages of the Greater Himalayan Region. 23 – via Brill.

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