Chothe language

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Chothe
"Chothe" written in Meitei script.jpg
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

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]

Geographical distribution

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

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References

  1. https://censusindia.gov.in/census.website/data/census-tables
  2. 1 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.