Chug language
Language spoken in Northeast India
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 (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.
Phonology
Labial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||
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Plosive | oral | p b | t d | k g | ||
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 | |
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High | i | u | |
Mid | e | o | |
Low | a |
References
- ^ a b 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.
- ^ 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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