| Bugun | |
|---|---|
| Khowa | |
| Native to | India |
| Region | Arunachal Pradesh |
| Ethnicity | Bugun (Khowa) |
Native speakers | 900 (2001)[1] |
Sino-Tibetan?
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | bgg |
| Glottolog | bugu1246 |
| ELP | Bugun |
Bugun, also known asKhowa, is a small possiblelanguage isolate spoken inArunachal Pradesh state ofIndia by theBugun. They numbered about 1,700 in 2011.
| Front | Central | Back | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | i | u | |
| Mid | ɛ | ɔ | |
| Open | ä |
Bugun is classified as aKho-Bwa language in Blench & Post (2013), although Blench (2015)[2] believes Bugun may actually be unrelated to the rest of the Kho-Bwa languages.
Lieberherr & Bodt (2017)[3] list the following Bugun dialects along with their numbers of speakers.
Bugun is spoken in the following villages in southernWest Kameng District,Arunachal Pradesh (Dondrup 1990:iv).[4] The total population numbered 800 in 1981. Names in parentheses are spellings as given inEthnologue.
Ethnologue also lists Mangopom village. These villages are located on the mountains on both sides of Rupa River.
Sino-Tibetan branches | |||||
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| WesternHimalayas (Himachal, Uttarakhand,Nepal,Sikkim) |
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| EasternHimalayas (Tibet,Bhutan,Arunachal) | |||||
| Myanmar and Indo- Burmese border |
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| East andSoutheast Asia |
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| Dubious (possible isolates,Arunachal) |
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Italics indicates single languages that are also considered to be separate branches. | |||||
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