Chothe language

Chothe
	Chothe Naga
Native to	India
Region	Manipur, Nagaland
Ethnicity	Chothe
Native speakers	3,600 (2001)[1]
Language family	Sino-Tibetan (Tibeto-Burman) Kuki-Chin Northwestern[2] Chothe; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	nct
Glottolog	chot1239

Chothe (Chothe Naga, Chawte, Kyao) is a Kuki-Chin language of India. It may be intelligible with Aimol.[1]

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)

Chothe at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
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

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