Meithei leid
Meetei (Meitei) /ˈmeɪteɪ/[5] or Manipuri /mænᵻˈpʊəri/ is the predominant leid an lingua franca in the sootheastren Himalayan state o Manipur, in northeastren Indie.
| Meithei | |
|---|---|
| Manipuri | |
| ꯃꯤꯇꯩꯂꯣꯟ | |
 | |
| Region | Northeast Indie, Bangladesh, Burma |
| Ethnicity | Meithei fowk |
Native speakers | 1.25 million (2010)[1] to 1.5 million (2001 census)[2] |
Sino-Tibetan
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| Bengali alphabet (current) Meithei Mayek alphabet (heestorical)[3] | |
| Offeecial status | |
Offeecial leid in |  Indie (Manipur) |
| Leid codes | |
| ISO 639-2 | mni |
| ISO 639-3 | Either:mni – Modern Meitheiomp – Old Manipuri |
omp Old Manipuri | |
| Glottolog | mani1292[4] |
References
eedit- ↑ Moseley, C. (Editor) (2010). Atlas of the world's languages in danger (3rd ed). Paris: UNESCO Publishing.CS1 maint: extra text: authors leet (link)
- ↑ Modern Meithei at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
Old Manipuri at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) - ↑ A Manipuri Grammar, Vocabulary, and Phrase Book - 1888 Assam Secretariat Press
- ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Manipuri". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
- ↑ Laurie Bauer, 2007, The Linguistics Student’s Handbook, Edinburgh