Chothe language
| Chothe | |
|---|---|
| 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 is a Kuki-Chin language, belonging to the Northwestern or "Old Kuki" subfamily.[3] 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
[edit]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
[edit]- ^ https://censusindia.gov.in/census.website/data/census-tables
- ^ a b Chothe at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
- ^ Thurgood, Graham (2016), "Sino-Tibetan: Genetic and Areal Subgroups", in Graham Thurgood; Randy J. LaPolla (eds.), The Sino-Tibetan Languages (2 ed.), Taylor & Francis, p. 22, ISBN 9781315399492
- ^ "Meitei | Ethnologue". Ethnologue. Retrieved 3 May 2023.
Sino-Tibetan branches | |||||
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| Western Himalayas (Himachal, Uttarakhand, Nepal, Sikkim) |
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| Eastern Himalayas (Tibet, Bhutan, Arunachal) | |||||
| Myanmar and Indo- Burmese border |
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| East and Southeast Asia |
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| Dubious (possible isolates, Arunachal) |
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