Chothe language

{{Short description|Sino-Tibetan language spoken in India}}

{{Contains special characters|Meitei}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=July 2019}}

{{Use Indian English|date=July 2019}}

{{Infobox language

| name = Chothe

|nativename=

| image = "Chothe" written in Meitei script.jpg

| imagescale =

| imagecaption = Chothe written in Meitei script

| states = India

| region = Manipur, Nagaland

| ethnicity = Chothe

| speakers = 3585

| date = 2011https://censusindia.gov.in/census.website/data/census-tables

| ref = e18

| familycolor = Sino-Tibetan

| fam2 = Tibeto-Burman

| fam3 = Kuki-Chin

| fam4 = Northwest Kuki-ChinDeLancey, 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

| 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.{{Cite web |title=Meitei {{!}} Ethnologue |url=https://www.ethnologue.com/language/mni/ |access-date=2023-05-03 |website=Ethnologue |language=en}}