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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{Short description|Kho-Bwa language of Arunachal Pradesh, India}}<br />
{{Infobox language<br />
|name=Bugun<br />
|altname=Khowa<br />
|states=[[India]]<br />
|region=[[Arunachal Pradesh]]<br />
|ethnicity=[[Bugun]] (Khowa)<br />
|speakers=900<br />
|date=2001<br />
|ref=e25<br />
|familycolor=Sino-Tibetan<br />
|fam1=[[Sino-Tibetan languages|Sino-Tibetan]]?<br />
|fam2=[[Kho-Bwa languages|Kho-Bwa]]?<br />
|iso3=bgg<br />
|glotto=bugu1246<br />
|glottorefname=Bugun<br />
}}<br />
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'''Bugun''', also known as '''Khowa''', is a small possible [[language isolate]] spoken in [[Arunachal Pradesh]] state of [[India]] by the [[Bugun]]. They numbered about 1,700 in 2011.<br />
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==Classification==<br />
Bugun is classified as a [[Kho-Bwa languages|Kho-Bwa]] language in Blench & Post (2013), although Blench (2015)<ref name="Blench2015">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.</ref> believes Bugun may actually be unrelated to the rest of the Kho-Bwa languages.<br />
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==Dialects==<br />
Lieberherr & Bodt (2017)<ref name="Lieberherr-Bodt">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).</ref> list the following Bugun dialects along with their numbers of speakers.<br />
*Dikhyang (100 speakers)<br />
*Singchung (680 speakers)<br />
*Wangho (220 speakers)<br />
*Bichom (630 speakers)<br />
*Kaspi (80 speakers)<br />
*Namphri (180 speakers)<br />
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==Distribution==<br />
Bugun is spoken in the following villages in southern [[West Kameng district|West Kameng District]], [[Arunachal Pradesh]] (Dondrup 1990:iv).<ref>Dondrup, Rinchin. 1990. ''Bugun language guide''. Itanagar: Directorate of Research, Government of Arunachal Pradesh.</ref> The total population numbered 800 in 1981. Names in parentheses are spellings as given in ''Ethnologue''.<br />
*Wanghoo (Wangho)<br />
*Singchung<br />
*Kaspi (New Kaspi)<br />
*Lichini<br />
*Ramo (Ramu)<br />
*Namphri<br />
*Chithu (Situ)<br />
*Sachida (Sachita)<br />
*Pani-Phu<br />
*Ditching ({{not a typo|Diching}})<br />
*Dikhiyang (Dikiang)<br />
*Bicham (Bichom) (a recently founded hamlet)<br />
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''Ethnologue'' also lists Mangopom village. These villages are located on the mountains on both sides of Rupa River, and are interspersed among Aka villages.<br />
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==References==<br />
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{{Sino-Tibetan languages}}<br />
{{Arunachal languages}}<br />
[[Category:Kho-Bwa languages]]<br />
[[Category:Languages of India]]<br />
[[Category:Endangered languages of India]]<br />
[[Category:Language isolates of Asia]]<br />
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