| Chug | |
|---|---|
| Duhumbi | |
| Region | Arunachal Pradesh |
| Ethnicity | Monpa people |
Native speakers | 600 (2017)1 |
Sino-Tibetan
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| 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
| 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 | |||
| Front | Central | Back | |
|---|---|---|---|
| High | i | u | |
| Mid | e | o | |
| Low | a |
References
References
- Lieberherr, Ismael; Bodt, Timotheus Adrianus. 2017. Sub-grouping Kho-Bwa based on shared core vocabulary. In Himalayan Linguistics, 16(2).
- Roger Blench and Mark Post. 2011. (De)classifying Arunachal languages: Reconsidering the evidence.
- Blench, Roger. 2015. The Mey languages and their classification. Presentation given at the University of Sydney.
- Bodt, Timotheus A. (2020). van Driem, George L. (ed.). "Grammar of Duhumbi (Chugpa)". Languages of the Greater Himalayan Region. 23 – via Brill.