Chothe language

Chothe
Chothe written in Meitei script
Native toIndia
RegionManipur, Nagaland
EthnicityChothe
Native speakers
3,600 (2001)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3nct
Glottologchot1239

Chothe (Chawte, Kyao) is a Sino-Tibetan language of Kuki-Chin subgroup of northeastern India. It may be intelligible with Aimol.[1] The speakers of this language use Meitei language as their second language (L2) according to the Ethnologue.[3]

Geographical distribution[edit]

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

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b Chothe at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. ^ 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
  3. ^ "Meitei | Ethnologue". Ethnologue. Retrieved 3 May 2023.