Lish language

Lish
Lish
Chug-Lish
Lishpa
Region	Arunachal Pradesh
Ethnicity	Lishipa
Native speakers	2,300 Lish (2006); 850 Chug (2005)
Language family	Possibly Tibeto-Burman Kho-Bwa Lish; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	Either:; lsh – Lish; cvg – Chug
Glottolog	chug1251

Lish (Lishpa, Khispi) and Chug (Duhumbi) are a small dialect cluster of West Kameng district, Arunachal Pradesh in India. They are closely related, though perhaps not close enough for mutual intelligibility.

Chug is spoken only in Chug village (population 483 in 1971), located a few miles from Dirang (Blench & Post 2011:3).^[3] 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.^[4]

Chug is also spoken in Duhumbi village, and Lish is also spoken in Khispi village.^[4] Despite speaking languages closely related to Mey, the people of these two villages identify as Monpa, not Mey.

References

^ ISO change request
^ Chug at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
^ Roger Blench and Mark Post. 2011. (De)classifying Arunachal languages: Reconsidering the evidence.
^ ^a ^b Blench, Roger. 2015. The Mey languages and their classification. Presentation given at the University of Sydney.

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[1] ISO change request

[e18-2] Chug at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)

[3] Roger Blench and Mark Post. 2011. (De)classifying Arunachal languages: Reconsidering the evidence.

[Blench2015-4] Blench, Roger. 2015. The Mey languages and their classification. Presentation given at the University of Sydney.

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