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Ancient Meitei or Old Manipuri was the early form of the present day Meitei language (Manipuri language) and was the national language of Ancient Manipur.[2][3][4] The language is as old as the reign of Emperor "Tangja Leela Pakhangba" in Ancient Manipur, right from 1445 BC,[5][6] and was spoken upto the beginning of the Medieval Manipur.[6]

Ancient Meitei
Old Manipuri
ꯃꯩꯇꯩꯂꯣꯟ
Meithei manuscript, a Indian language.jpg
RegionAncient Manipur
EthnicityMeitei people
EraAncient Manipure18
Language family
Sino-Tibetan
  • Tibeto-Burman
    • Ancient Meitei
Writing systemMeitei script[1]
Official status
Official language inAncient Manipur
Language codes
ISO 639-3omp
Linguist Listomp Old Manipuri

Gallery

  • Wakching.jpg
  • A picture of a Puya (ancient Meitei text).jpg
  • A picture of pages of Wakoklon Puya.jpg

Ancient Meitei Language Media

  • Yumbanlol (Yumpanlol), a group of 6th century Classical Meitei language copper plate inscriptions, written in Meitei script.

  • The first page of Loyumba Shinyen, the 11th-12th century Meitei-language constitution of Kangleipak.

  • An 1822 CE stone recording a royal decree attributed to King Jai Singh (r. 1759–1762, 1763–1798), erected at Andro, Imphal East, Manipur

  • Districts of Barak Valley – Meitei speaking population settlement areas of Assam

  • Areas with significany numbers of Meitei speakers in Bangladesh

  • Depiction of the 18th century historic burning of texts written in Meitei script.

  • The Numit Kappa, a Classical Meitei 1st century epic based on Meitei mythology and religion.

  • A screen shot of Google Translate translating a sentence from English language into Meitei language

Related pages

  1. Puya (Meitei texts)
  2. List of Puyas

References

  1. ↑ 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.
  2. ↑ "OLAC resources in and about the Old Manipuri language". Archived from the original on 2021-07-29. Retrieved 2021-03-03.
  3. ↑ "Omp | ISO 639-3".
  4. ↑ http://multitree.org/codes/omp
  5. ↑ "Meitei Kings".
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 KanglaOnline. "Manipuri is a classical language | KanglaOnline". Archived from the original on 2021-04-30. Retrieved 2021-04-19.
General references
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