Ancient Meitei language

Ancient Meitei
Ancient Meitei
Old Manipuri; ꯃꯩꯇꯩꯂꯣꯟ
Region	Ancient Manipur
Ethnicity	Meitei people
Era	Ancient Manipure18
Language family	Sino-Tibetan Tibeto-Burman Ancient Meitei; ;
Writing system	Meitei script
Official status
Official language in	Ancient Manipur
Language codes
ISO 639-3	omp
Linguist List	omp Old Manipuri

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]

Gallery

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

Ancient Meitei
Old Manipuri ꯃꯩꯇꯩꯂꯣꯟ

Region	Ancient Manipur
Ethnicity	Meitei people
Era	Ancient Manipure18
Language family	Sino-Tibetan Tibeto-Burman Ancient Meitei
Writing system	Meitei script^[1]
Official status
Official language in	Ancient Manipur
Language codes
ISO 639-3	`omp`
Linguist List	`omp` Old Manipuri