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| script = [[Bengali script|Bengali alphabet]] (current)<br />[[Latin alphabet]] (to a lesser extent)<br />[[Meitei alphabet]] (historical)<ref>{{cite book| last = Primrose| first = Arthur John| title = A Manipuri Grammar, Vocabulary, and Phrase Book: To which are Added Some Manipuri Proverbs and Specimens of Manipuri Correspondence| url = https://books.google.com/?id=0L3M1OmJhesC&pg=PA1| year = 1888| publisher = Assam Secretariat Press| isbn = | page = 1 }}</ref>
| script = [[Bengali script|Bengali alphabet]] (current)<br />[[Latin alphabet]] (to a lesser extent)<br />[[Meitei alphabet]] (historical)<ref>{{cite book| last = Primrose| first = Arthur John| title = A Manipuri Grammar, Vocabulary, and Phrase Book: To which are Added Some Manipuri Proverbs and Specimens of Manipuri Correspondence| url = https://books.google.com/?id=0L3M1OmJhesC&pg=PA1| year = 1888| publisher = Assam Secretariat Press| isbn = | page = 1 }}</ref>
| nation = {{IND}}<ref>http://e-pao.net/epPageExtractor.asp?src=MeiteiMayek.Manipuri_language_in_8th_Schedule_By_Jeet_Akoijam.html..</ref><ref>https://universalinstitutions.com/languages-added-in-the-8th-schedule-of-indian-constitution/</ref><ref>https://rajbhasha.gov.in/en/languages-included-eighth-schedule-indian-constitution</ref>
| nation = {{IND}}<ref>http://e-pao.net/epPageExtractor.asp?src=MeiteiMayek.Manipuri_language_in_8th_Schedule_By_Jeet_Akoijam.html..</ref><ref>https://universalinstitutions.com/languages-added-in-the-8th-schedule-of-indian-constitution/</ref><ref>https://rajbhasha.gov.in/en/languages-included-eighth-schedule-indian-constitution</ref>
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| minority = {{BAN}}<br />{{MYA}}
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| dia5 = [[Manipuri Muslim dialect]]
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'''Meitei''' (also known as '''Manipuri''' or '''Meetei''') is the [[Official language|official language]] and the [[Lingua franca|lingua franca]] of the [[States of India|Indian state]] of [[Manipur]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Origin and Development of the Meetei Language|url=http://rdmodernresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/120.pdf|publisher=Department of English, Ethiraj College for Women, Chennai, Tamilnadu|accessdate=19 July 2017|author=Khongbantabam Naobi Devi, Ph,D}}</ref> It is developed from the [[Ancient Meitei language]]. It is one of the [[Languages with official status in India|22 scheduled languages of India]].<ref>http://e-pao.net/epPageExtractor.asp?src=MeiteiMayek.Manipuri_language_in_8th_Schedule_By_Jeet_Akoijam.html..</ref><ref>https://rajbhasha.gov.in/en/languages-included-eighth-schedule-indian-constitution</ref><ref>https://universalinstitutions.com/languages-added-in-the-8th-schedule-of-indian-constitution/</ref>
'''Meitei''' (also known as '''Manipuri''' or '''Meetei''') is the [[official language]] and the [[lingua franca]] of the [[States of India|Indian state]] of [[Manipur]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Origin and Development of the Meetei Language|url=http://rdmodernresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/120.pdf|publisher=Department of English, Ethiraj College for Women, Chennai, Tamilnadu|accessdate=19 July 2017|author=Khongbantabam Naobi Devi, Ph,D}}</ref> It is developed from the [[Ancient Meitei language]]. It is one of the [[Languages with official status in India|22 scheduled languages of India]].<ref>http://e-pao.net/epPageExtractor.asp?src=MeiteiMayek.Manipuri_language_in_8th_Schedule_By_Jeet_Akoijam.html..</ref><ref>https://rajbhasha.gov.in/en/languages-included-eighth-schedule-indian-constitution</ref><ref>https://universalinstitutions.com/languages-added-in-the-8th-schedule-of-indian-constitution/</ref>


==Related pages==
==Related pages==
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[[Category:Languages of India]]
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[[Category:Meitei culture|Language]]

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Meitei
Manipuri, Meithei, Meetei, Kathe, Monipuriya, Mekhlee, Mogolu
Native toManipur, Assam and Tripura
Region India,
 Bangladesh,
 Myanmar,
 Canada
EthnicityMeitei ethnicity
Era1445 BC - present[2]
Sino-Tibetan
  • Tibeto-Burman
    • Indo-Mongolian
      • Meitei
Early form
Dialects
Bengali alphabet (current)
Latin alphabet (to a lesser extent)
Meitei alphabet (historical)[3]
Official status
Official language in
 India[4][5][6]
Recognised minority
language in
Language codes
ISO 639-2mni
ISO 639-3Either:
mni – Meetei
omp – Old Manipuri
omp Old Manipuri
Glottologmani1292

Meitei (also known as Manipuri or Meetei) is the official language and the lingua franca of the Indian state of Manipur.[7] It is developed from the Ancient Meitei language. It is one of the 22 scheduled languages of India.[8][9][10]

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References

  1. Moseley, C. (Editor) (2010). Atlas of the world's languages in danger (3rd ed). Paris: UNESCO Publishing. {{cite book}}: |first1= has generic name (help)
  2. Meetei at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
    Old Manipuri at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  3. 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.
  4. http://e-pao.net/epPageExtractor.asp?src=MeiteiMayek.Manipuri_language_in_8th_Schedule_By_Jeet_Akoijam.html..
  5. https://universalinstitutions.com/languages-added-in-the-8th-schedule-of-indian-constitution/
  6. https://rajbhasha.gov.in/en/languages-included-eighth-schedule-indian-constitution
  7. 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.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  8. http://e-pao.net/epPageExtractor.asp?src=MeiteiMayek.Manipuri_language_in_8th_Schedule_By_Jeet_Akoijam.html..
  9. https://rajbhasha.gov.in/en/languages-included-eighth-schedule-indian-constitution
  10. https://universalinstitutions.com/languages-added-in-the-8th-schedule-of-indian-constitution/

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