Lish language

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

{{Infobox language

|name=Lish

|altname=Lishpa, Khispi

|nativename=

|region=Arunachal Pradesh

|ethnicity=Lishipa

|speakers=1,500

|date=2017

|ref=

|familycolor=Sino-Tibetan

|fam1=Sino-Tibetan?

|fam2=Kho-Bwa

|iso3=lsh

|glotto=lish1235

|glottorefname=Khispi

}}

Lish (also called Lishpa or Khispi) is a Kho-Bwa language of West Kameng district, Arunachal Pradesh in India. It is a dialect of the same language as Chug and Gompatse.

The Lish (population 1,567 in 1981) live in Dirang village, a few miles from Chug village, and in Gompatse. The Gompatse variety is not Lish proper, but is rather a lect closely related to Lish.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.

Lish is also spoken in Khispi village. 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). Lish is spoken by 1,500 people in 3 main villages.