Chug language

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Chug
Duhumbi
Region Arunachal Pradesh
Ethnicity Monpa people
Native speakers
600 (2017) [1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 cvg
Glottolog chug1252

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.

Phonology

Consonants [4]
Labial Alveolar Palatal Velar Glottal
Plosive oral p b t d k ɡ
aspirated pʰ tʰ kʰ
Affricate oral ts tɕ dʑ
aspirated tsʰ tɕʰ
Fricative s z ɕ ʑ h
Nasal m n ɲ ŋ
Approximant w r , l j
Vowels [4]
Front Central Back
High i u
Mid e o
Low a

References

  1. 1 2 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. 1 2 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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