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Meithei
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Countries

Countries

India, Manipur

Total No. Of Countries

1
Rank: 14 (Overall)
0 46
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National Language

Bangladesh, Burma, Northeast India

Second Language

Not spoken in any of the countries

Speaking Continents

Asia

Minority Language

Assam, Manipur, Tripura

Regulated By

-

Interesting Facts

  • Meithei Language is currently classified as a vulnerable language by UNESCO.
  • The oldest document in Methei language was dated back in 8th century were inscriptions on the copper plate.

Similar To

Bengali, Odia, Maithili and Meithei Languages

Derived From

-

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

27
Rank: 9 (Overall)
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

6
Rank: 3 (Overall)
0 32
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How Many Consonants

15
Rank: 5 (Overall)
9 60
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Scripts

Bengali

Writing Direction

-

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

3
Rank: 2 (Overall)
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

44 weeks
Rank: 17 (Overall)
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

Khurumjari

Thank You

Yamna nungaijare

How Are You?

Nung_ngai_biribra adombo?

Good Night

Athengba Ahing

Good Evening

মানিপুরি

Good Afternoon

দুপুরোয়াক নমস্কাৰ

Good Morning

Nongale haugatl

Please

Chanbiduna

Sorry

Saobiganu

Bye

Chatcharage

I Love You

Eina nangbu nungsi

Excuse Me

দুঃখিত

Dialects

Dialect 1

Loi

Where They Speak

Burma, Laos

How Many People Speak

5,000.00
Rank: 87 (Overall)
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Pangal

Where They Speak

Bangladesh, India

How Many People Speak

273,000.00
Rank: 74 (Overall)
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Meithei proper

Where They Speak

Bangladesh, Burma, Northeast India

How Many People Speak

1,250,000.00
Rank: 53 (Overall)
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

6
Rank: 6 (Overall)
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

1.50 million
Rank: 84 (Overall)
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.01 %
Rank: 62 (Overall)
0 89
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Native Speakers

1.50 million
Rank: 79 (Overall)
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

1.50 million
Rank: 59 (Overall)
0.01 400
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Native Name

মৈইতৈইলোন

Alternative Names

Kathe, Kathi, Manipuri, Meiteilon, Meiteiron, Meithe, Meitei, Menipuri, Mitei, Mithe, Ponna

French Name

Meithei

German Name

Meithei

Pronunciation

[ˈmeɪteɪ]

Ethnicity

Meithei people

History

Origin

1700

Language Family

Sino-Tibetan Family

Subgroup

Tibeto-Burman

Branch

-

Language Forms

Early Forms

No early forms

Standard Forms

Standard Meithei

Language Position

38
Rank: 35 (Overall)
1 120
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Signed Forms

Meithei Sign Language

Scope

-

Code

ISO 639 1

No data available

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

mni

ISO 639 2/B

mni

ISO 639 3

mni

ISO 639 6

mni

Glottocode

mani1292

Linguasphere

omp

Types of Language

Language Type

-

Language Linguistic Typology

-

Language Morphological Typology

-

Know Alphabets in Meithei

When you start learning to write in any language the Alphabets form a skeleton of any language. Let's talk About Meithei Language, where you will learn the number of letter in Meithei Alphabets. Every language has its own set of alphabets or characters so it is necessary to know alphabets in Meithei. Meithei phonology gives Meithei vowels and Meithei consonants. There are 6 vowels and 15 consonants in Meithei language. Based upon the number of alphabet, vowels and consonants in the language we can check if Meithei is one of the Most Difficult Languages. All about Meithei language is given in detail in this section.

All Meithei countries

Want to explore all Meithei countries? About Meithei language serves you with all Meithei Speaking Countries. Countries that use Meithei as official language are called as Meithei countries.

  • Countries that use Meithei as their National Language are: Bangladesh, Burma, Northeast India.

Second language indicates to any language which the person learns in addition to first or native language.

  • Countries that use Meithei as second language are: Meithei is not spoken as second language in any of the countries.

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Learn Meithei greetings

Languages are used by every human being to communicate. And communication begins with the greetings. First step to form any interaction is to learn Meithei Greetings. Whenever you are travelling to new country where in you don’t know the local language of that country then you should at least be familiar with some greetings to start any formal or informal conversion. When we talk about Meithei language, we are always interested in learning useful phrases in Meithei language.Learn Meithei greetings that can be used in formal situations:

  • Hello: Khurumjari
  • Thank you: Yamna nungaijare
  • Good Morning: Nongale haugatl
  • Good Evening: মানিপুরি
  • Good Afternoon: দুপুরোয়াক নমস্কাৰ

All Meithei Language Codes

Get to know all Meithei language codes here. There are several languages spoken all over the world where in most of the languages have alternate names which come from diverse sources. All Meithei Language Codes are assigned with unique code. There is usually two or three letters code for each language. In most of the applications, these language codes are used where it is tedious to use language names.