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)
References[]
^ abChothe 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
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Sino-Tibetan branches
Western Himalayas (Himachal, Uttarakhand, Nepal, Sikkim)