Lish (also called Lishpa or Khispi) is a
Kho-Bwa language of
West Kameng district
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Arunachal Pradesh
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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.
[Blench, Roger. 2015]
''The Mey languages and their classification''
Presentation given at the University of Sydney.
Lish is also spoken in Khispi village.
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). Lish is spoken by 1,500 people in 3 main villages.
Phonology
References
Kho-Bwa languages
Languages of India
Endangered languages of India
Articles citing ISO change requests
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