The Kho-Bwa languages, also known as Kamengic, are a small family, or possibly a pair of families, of languages spoken in Arunachal Pradesh, northeast India. The name Kho-Bwa was proposed by George van Driem in 2001, based on the reconstructed words kho, meaning water, and bwa, meaning fire; Roger Blench later suggested the alternative name Kamengic in 2011, drawing on the Kameng area of Arunachal Pradesh. Van Driem and Blench both group the Sherdukpen, Lishpa, Chug and Sartang languages together as a clearly related cluster, while the pair of Sulung and Khowa languages, included in the family by van Driem, are treated by Blench as a provisionally separate second family; the languages have traditionally been placed within the Tibeto-Burman group by the Linguistic Survey of India.
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