Chothe in India

Speakers

3,590

Type

Location

Chothe in India

Country

Information available

1. Basics

Names

Chothe in India

Size

3,590

2. Status

Status

  • Official country wide language
  • Official regional language
  • Official minority language
  • Recognised community language
  • Unrecognised community language
National language
No
Indigenous language
Yes
Administrative units of the country
North East India

3. State

Documentation: materials

Written

  • Extended corpora
  • Annotated corpora
  • Corpus/corpora
  • Materials/corpus
  • Some materials
  • No materials
Digital
Yes
Comments
Bihari Singh, (2012), Huirem Chothe Thangwai Pakhangba https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.466623

Yuhlung, Standhope 1986 Chothe ngei athouna yongna. Imphal: Directorate of tribal development and backward classes, Government of Manipur.




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Video

  • Extended corpora
  • Annotated corpora
  • Corpus/corpora
  • Materials/corpus
  • Some materials
  • No materials
Digital
Yes
Comments
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59_b0l2uUZ0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2XswQ9WdkYw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysxicOd2XBA
https://www.youtube.com/@chothesongcollection

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Audio

  • Extended corpora
  • Annotated corpora
  • Corpus/corpora
  • Materials/corpus
  • Some materials
  • No materials
Digital
Yes
Comments
Audio recordings in Chothe language are available on the given link
https://lai.ciil.org/browse/language?value=Chothe

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Documentation: descriptions

  • Elaborated dictionaries, grammars, statistical language models, etc.
  • Dictionaries and grammars
  • Dictionary and grammar
  • Glossary and descriptions
  • Few descriptions
  • No descriptions
Digital
Yes
Comments
Singh, Hidam Brojen. 2000. A descriptive grammar of Chothe. (Doctoral dissertation, Canchipur: Manipur University; 336pp.) https://shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in/jspui/handle/10603/105201

Singh, Hidam Brojen. 2008. Chothe grammar: a descriptive grammar of Chothe. New Delhi, India: Akansha. xxii+233pp.

Charles, Yuhlung Cheithou (2012) Indigenous religion of the Chothe of Manipur a sociological study. North-Eastern Hill University.

Thambaljao Hiyang. et. al. (1985). The original custom and culture of Chote tribe. In Das Gupta, Biman Kumar and Arabinda Basu and Bikash Raychaudhuri and Pabitra Gupta (eds.), Proceedings of the Symposium on Purum (Chote). Calcutta: Anthropological Survey of India.

W. Mema Devi (1992), Chothe affixes. Department of Linguistics Manipur University

Brojen Hidam Singh 2011. Negation in Chothe Grammar from Morphology and Syntax from Tani to Kuki-Chin. Cambridge University Press https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/abs/north-east-indian-linguistics/negation-in-chothe-grammar/AEBE454CA8C4CC6FF1A5025034F100F4

CHEITHOU CHARLES YUHLUNG (2017). CHOTHE THAOWON SAAMTHARNU ALIAS NUNGTHIL CHAIBI: THE LADY WITH BEAUTIFUL HAIR. Indian J. Soc. & Pol. 04(01): 105-114

Standardization

  • Modern standard language
  • Young standard language
  • Standardised language
  • Quasi-standard language
  • Semi-standardised language
  • Un-standardised language

Graphisation & script encoding

  • Standardised writing system with full script encoding
  • Conventionalised writing system with partial script encoding
  • Consistent writing system with no script encoding
  • Unsystematic writing system(s)
  • Limited written use
  • No written use
Comments
Chothe is written with Meitei script

4. Users

Geographical distribution

  • Users live and dominate in all regions of the country
  • Users live in one [state/...] of the country
  • Users live in a cross-border region [state/...] of the country
  • Users live in separated [states/...] of the country
  • Users live dispersed across one [state/...] of the country
  • Users live scattered all over the country

Settlements

  • Rural
  • Urban
Administrative units of the country
Manipur and Nagaland

Size / Number of users

Number of users

3590
Source
Census of India
Year
2011
Comments

https://www.ethnologue.com/language/nct/

Users within total population

Users within the reference community

Age distribution of users

Generational use

Educational attainment

Occupational qualifications

Language competence

Literacy of users

Digital use

5. Use

Socio-geographic dimension

Geographic scope
  • International
  • Supranational
  • Cross-border (states)
  • State-wide
  • Supra-regional cross-border
  • Supra-regional
  • Regional cross-border
  • Regional
  • Local

Economic dimension

Functional dimension

Functional use in administration

Language use in administration
  • International level
  • National level
  • Regional level
  • Local level
  • Auxiliary use
  • No use

Types of language use

  • signed / spoken use
  • written use
  • digital use

Ethnoculture

  • No use
  • Informal learning
  • Skills and knowledge
  • Performing arts
  • Social practices
  • Customary law
  • Traditional medicine
  • Knowledge and practices
  • Traditions and expressions

Formal Education

Early childhood education
Primary level
Lower secondary level
Higher secondary level
Tertiary level

Public healthcare

Information, communication and cultural production

  • Information services
  • Broadcasting
  • Video, film
  • Sound/music recording
  • Publishing activities
  • Language not used
  • Information services
  • Broadcasting
  • Video, film
  • Sound/music recording
  • Publishing activities
  • Language not used
  • Information services
  • Broadcasting
  • Video, film
  • Sound/music recording
  • Publishing activities
  • Language not used

Legal system

Completion