Meitei language
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| Meetei | |
|---|---|
| Manipuri, Meithei, Meetei | |
| ꯃꯤꯇꯩꯂꯣꯟ | |
 | |
| Region | Northeast India, Bangladesh, Myanmar |
| Ethnicity | Meetei |
Native speakers | 1.25 million (2010)[1] to 1.5 million (2001 census)[2] |
Sino-Tibetan
| |
| Bengali alphabet (current) Latin alphabet (to a lesser extent) Meetei alphabet (historical)[3] | |
| Official status | |
Official language in | (Manipur) |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-2 | mni |
| ISO 639-3 | Either: mni – Meetei omp – Old Manipuri |
omp Old Manipuri | |
| Glottolog | mani1292[4] |
Meetei (also known as Manipuri) is the main language spoken in Manipur.[5]
References[change | change source]
- ↑ Moseley, C. (Editor) (2010). Atlas of the world's languages in danger (3rd ed). Paris: UNESCO Publishing.CS1 maint: extra text: authors list (link)
- ↑ Meetei at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
Old Manipuri at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) - ↑ Primrose, Arthur John (1888). A Manipuri Grammar, Vocabulary, and Phrase Book: To which are Added Some Manipuri Proverbs and Specimens of Manipuri Correspondence. Assam Secretariat Press. p. 1.
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Manipuri". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- ↑ Khongbantabam Naobi Devi, Ph,D. "Origin and Development of the Meetei Language" (PDF). Department of English, Ethiraj College for Women, Chennai, Tamilnadu. Retrieved 19 July 2017.CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
