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The Kho-Bwa languages, also known as Bugunish and Kamengic, are a small family of languages spoken in Arunachal Pradesh, northeast India. The name ''Kho-Bwa'' is due to Van Driem (2001). It is based on the reconstructed words '' *kho'' ("fire") and '' *bwa'' ("water"). Blench (2011) suggests the name ''Kamengic'', from the Kameng area of Arunachal Pradesh, or alternatively ''Bugun–Mey'', after its two main members. Both Van Driem and Blench group the ''Bugun'' (or ''Khowa''), the ''Mey'' (or ''Sherdukpen''), and the ''Lishpa'' (or ''Lish'') languages. The ''Puroik'' (or ''Sulung'') language is included in the group by Van Driem but treated as a language isolate with no genetic relation to Kamengic by Blench. These languages have traditionally been placed in the Tibeto-Burman group by the Linguistic Survey of India, but the justification of this is open to question. The languages have certainly been strongly influenced by the neighboring Sino-Tibetan languages, but this does not necessarily imply genetic unity and may possibly be a purely areal effect.〔 Blench (2011): "Certainly, the phonology and morphology of Arunachali languages looks superficially like Tibeto-Burman, which explains their placing in the Linguistic Survey of India. Unfortunately, this is rather where matters have remained (this paper ) proposes we should take seriously the underlying presumption probably implied in Konow's statement in Linguistic Survey of India. Volume III, 1, Tibeto-Burman family, Calcutta (1909:572)], that these languages may not be Sino-Tibetan but simply have been influenced by it; that they are language isolates."〕 The entire language family has about 15,000 speakers (including Puroik) or about 10,000 speakers (excluding Puroik), according to estimates made during the 2000s. ==Classification== The internal structure of the ''Kamengic'' group of languages is as follows. * Bugun (Khowa) *Mey–Sartang * * Sherdukpen (Mey, Ngnok), divided into two varieties: * * * Shergaon * * * Rupa * *Sartang (Bootpa, But Monpa, But Pa, Matchopa), 50%–60% lexical similarity with Mey. *Chug–Lish * *Lishpa (Lish) * *Chug (Chug Monpa, Chugpa, Monpa), close to Lish *(possibly Sulung (Puroik); affiliation doubtful) 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Kho-Bwa languages」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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