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 codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | nct |
| Glottolog | chot1239 |
Geographical distribution
editChothe 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
edit- ^ https://censusindia.gov.in/census.website/data/census-tables
- ^ a b Chothe at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
- ^ 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
- ^ "Meitei | Ethnologue". Ethnologue. Retrieved 3 May 2023.
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