Khowa language
| Khowa | |
|---|---|
| Bugun | |
| Region | Arunachal Pradesh |
| Ethnicity | Bugun (Khowa) |
Native speakers | 1,700 (2011)[1] |
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Possibly Sino-Tibetan
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 |
bgg |
| Glottolog |
bugu1246[2] |
Khowa, or Bugun, is a small Sino-Tibetan language spoken in India. They numbered about 1,700 in 2011.[1] Sherdukpen speakers live just to the west of them.
Classification
Bugun is classified as a Kho-Bwa language in Blench & Post (2013), although Blench (2015)[3] believes Bugun may be actually be unrelated to the rest of the Kho-Bwa languages. Rather, it had borrowed heavily from Mey of Shergaon since the Bugun had a subordinate relationship with the Mey of Shergaon.
Distribution
Bugun is spoken in the following villages in southern West Kameng District, Arunachal Pradesh (Dondrup 1990:iv). The total population numbered 800 in 1981.
- Wanghoo
- Singchung
- Kaspi
- Lichini
- Ramo
- Namphri
- Chithu
- Sachida
- Pani-Phu
- Ditching
- Dikhiyang
- Bicham (a recently founded hamlet)
References
- 1 2 Blench, Roger. 2011. (De)classifying Arunachal languages: Reconsidering the evidence
- ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Bugun". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
- ↑ Blench, Roger. 2015. The Mey languages and their classification. Presentation given at the University of Sydney.
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