Chothe language explained

Chothe
States:	India
Region:	Manipur, Nagaland
Ethnicity:	Chothe
Speakers:	3,600
Date:	2001
Ref:	e18
Familycolor:	Sino-Tibetan
Fam2:	Tibeto-Burman
Fam3:	Kuki-Chin
Fam4:	Northwest Kuki-Chin^[1]
Iso3:	nct
Glotto:	chot1239
Glottorefname:	Chothe

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

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)

Notes and References

1. 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
2. Web site: Meitei Ethnologue . 2023-05-03 . . en.