| Chug | |
| Also Known As: | Chugpa, Duhumbi |
| Region: | Arunachal Pradesh |
| Ethnicity: | Monpa people |
| Speakers: | 600 |
| Date: | 2017 |
| 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 closely related to Lish.
Chug is spoken only in Chug village (population 483 in 1971), located a few miles from Dirang (Blench & Post 2011:3).[1]
Chug is spoken in Duhumbi village. [2] Despite speaking languages closely related to Mey (Sherdukpen), the people identify as Monpa, not Mey.
According to Lieberherr & Bodt (2017),[3] Chug is spoken by 600 people in 3 main villages.
| Plosive | oral | pronounced as /link/ pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ pronounced as /link/ | |||
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| aspirated | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | ||||
| Affricate | oral | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ pronounced as /link/ | ||||
| aspirated | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | |||||
| Fricative | pronounced as /link/ pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | ||||
| Nasal | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | |||
| Approximant | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/, pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | ||||
| High | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | ||
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| Mid | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | ||
| Low | pronounced as /link/ |