| Lish | |
| Also Known As: | Lishpa, Khispi |
| Region: | Arunachal Pradesh |
| Ethnicity: | Lishipa |
| Speakers: | 1,500 |
| Date: | 2017 |
| 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.[1]
Lish is also spoken in Khispi village.[1] Despite speaking languages closely related to Mey (Sherdukpen), the people identify as Monpa, not Mey.
According to Lieberherr & Bodt (2017),[2] Lish is spoken by 1,500 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/ | pronounced as /link/ pronounced as /link/ | |||
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| aspirated | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | ||||
| Affricate | oral | pronounced as /link/ pronounced as /link/ | ||||||
| aspirated | 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/ | 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/ |