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|name=Chug<br />
|altname=Chugpa, Duhumbi<br />
|nativename=<br />
|region=[[Arunachal Pradesh]]<br />
|ethnicity=[[Monpa people]]<br />
|speakers=600<br />
|date=2017<br />
|ref=<ref name="Lieberherr-Bodt"/><br />
|familycolor=Sino-Tibetan<br />
|fam1=[[Sino-Tibetan languages|Sino-Tibetan]]?<br />
|fam2=[[Kho-Bwa languages|Kho-Bwa]]<br />
|iso3=cvg<br />
|glotto=chug1252<br />
|glottorefname=Duhumbi<br />
}}<br />
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'''Chug''' (also called '''Chugpa''' or '''Duhumbi''') is a [[Kho-Bwa languages|Kho-Bwa]] language of [[West Kameng district]], [[Arunachal Pradesh]] in India. It is closely related to [[Lish language|Lish]].<br />
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Chug is spoken only in Chug village (population 483 in 1971), located a few miles from [[Dirang]] (Blench & Post 2011:3).<ref>Roger Blench and Mark Post. 2011. ''(De)classifying Arunachal languages: Reconsidering the evidence''.</ref><br />
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Chug is spoken in Duhumbi village. <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> Despite speaking languages closely related to Mey ([[Sherdukpen language|Sherdukpen]]), the people identify as Monpa, not Mey.<br />
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According to 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> Chug is spoken by 600 people in 3 main villages.<br />
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==References==<br />
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*Bodt, Timotheus Adrianus. 2017. ''Grammar of Duhumbi (Chugpa)''. Ph.D. dissertation, [[University of Bern]].<br />
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