Chug language

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
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 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