Chug language

Language spoken in Northeast India
Chug
Chugpa, Duhumbi
RegionArunachal Pradesh
EthnicityMonpa people
Native speakers
600 (2017)[1]
Language family
Sino-Tibetan?
  • Kho-Bwa
    • Chug
Language codes
ISO 639-3cvg
Glottologchug1252

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 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.

References

  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.

Further reading

  • Bodt, Timotheus Adrianus (2017). Grammar of Duhumbi (Chugpa). Ph.D. dissertation, University of Bern.
  • Bodt, Timotheus Adrianus (2019). Grammar of Duhumbi (Chugpa). Leiden: Brill. ISBN 978-90-04-40948-4
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