Chug (also called Chugpa or Duhumbi) is a Kho-Bwa language of

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in India. It is a dialect of the same language as

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and Gompatse. Chug is spoken only in Chug village (population 483 in 1971), located a few miles from

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(Blench & Post 2011:3).Roger Blench and Mark Post. 2011. ''(De)classifying Arunachal languages: Reconsidering the evidence''. Chug is spoken in Duhumbi village. Blench, Roger. 2015
''The Mey languages and their classification''
Presentation given at the University of Sydney. Despite speaking languages closely related to Mey (

Sherdukpen The Sherdukpen are an ethnic group of Arunachal Pradesh state of India. Their population of 9,663 is centered in West Kameng district in the villages of Rupa, Jigaon, Thongri, Shergaon, to the south of Bomdila. All of these are at elevations be ...

), the people identify as Monpa, not Mey. According to Lieberherr & Bodt (2017),Lieberherr, Ismael; Bodt, Timotheus Adrianus. 2017
Sub-grouping Kho-Bwa based on shared core vocabulary
In ''Himalayan Linguistics'', 16(2). Chug is spoken by 600 people in 3 main villages.

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