Chothe language

Chothe (Chawte, Kyao) is a Sino-Tibetan language of Kuki-Chin subgroup of northeastern India. It may be intelligible with Aimol.^[2] The speakers of this language use Meitei language as their second language (L2) according to the Ethnologue.^[4]

Chothe
Chothe written in Meitei script
Native to	India
Region	Manipur, Nagaland
Ethnicity	Chothe
Native speakers	3585 (2011[1])[2]
Language family	Sino-Tibetan Tibeto-Burman Kuki-Chin Northwest Kuki-Chin[3] Chothe
Language codes
ISO 639-3	nct
Glottolog	chot1239

Geographical distribution

Chothe is spoken in the following locations (Ethnologue). The "purest" Chothe is reported to be spoken in Purum Khullen (Ethnologue).

• Southeastern Manipur
  • Chandel district (in 15 villages)
  • Bishnupur district (in Lamlang Hupi village)
• Nagaland (near the Myanmar border)

References

1. https://censusindia.gov.in/census.website/data/census-tables
2. Chothe at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
3. DeLancey, Scott; Krishna Boro; Linda Konnerth1; Amos Teo. 2015. Tibeto-Burman Languages of the Indo-Myanmar borderland. 31st South Asian Languages Analysis Roundtable, 14 May 2015
4. "Meitei | Ethnologue". Ethnologue. Retrieved 3 May 2023.