Chug language

Chug
Duhumbi
Region	Arunachal Pradesh
Ethnicity	Monpa people
Native speakers	600 (2017)[1]
Language family	Sino-Tibetan? Kho-Bwa Chug
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. 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. Bodt, Timotheus A. (2020). van Driem, George L. (ed.). "Grammar of Duhumbi (Chugpa)". Languages of the Greater Himalayan Region. 23 – via Brill.