Chug language

{{Short description|Language spoken in Northeast India}}

{{Infobox language

|name=Chug

|altname=Duhumbi

|nativename=

|region=Arunachal Pradesh

|ethnicity=Monpa people

|speakers=600

|date=2017

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|familycolor=Sino-Tibetan

|fam1=Sino-Tibetan?

|fam2=Kho-Bwa

|iso3=cvg

|glotto=chug1252

|glottorefname=Duhumbi

}}

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).Roger Blench and Mark Post. 2011. (De)classifying Arunachal languages: Reconsidering the evidence.

Chug is spoken in Duhumbi village. Blench, Roger. 2015. [https://www.academia.edu/15108029/The_Mey_languages_and_their_classification The Mey languages and their classification]. Presentation given at the University of Sydney. Despite speaking languages closely related to Mey (Sherdukpen), the people identify as Monpa, not Mey.

According to Lieberherr & Bodt (2017),Lieberherr, Ismael; Bodt, Timotheus Adrianus. 2017. [https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4t27h5fg Sub-grouping Kho-Bwa based on shared core vocabulary]. In Himalayan Linguistics, 16(2). Chug is spoken by 600 people in 3 main villages.