Countries
India, Manipur
Hong Kong, Macau
Total No. Of Countries
12
0
46
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National Language
Bangladesh, Burma, Northeast India
China, Guangdong
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Assam, Manipur, Tripura
Hawaii
Regulated By
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Civil Service Bureau, Government of Hong Kong, Official Language Division
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.
- Cantonese have lot of slangs, many of them include words that do not make sense at all and some also have English in them.
- Even though Cantonese and Mandarin are dialects of Chinese, Cantonese has 8 tones instead of Mandarin's 4.
Similar To
Bengali, Odia, Maithili and Meithei Languages
Chinese Language
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2728
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
68
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
1520
9
60
👆🏻
Scripts
Bengali
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
310
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks88 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
Khurumjari
您好
Thank You
Yamna nungaijare
谢谢
How Are You?
Nung_ngai_biribra adombo?
你好吗？
Good Night
Athengba Ahing
晚安
Good Evening
মানিপুরি
晚上好
Good Afternoon
দুপুরোয়াক নমস্কাৰ
下午好
Good Morning
Nongale haugatl
早上好
Please
Chanbiduna
请
Sorry
Saobiganu
遗憾
Bye
Chatcharage
再见
I Love You
Eina nangbu nungsi
我爱你
Excuse Me
দুঃখিত
原谅我
Dialect 1
Loi
Guangzhou
Where They Speak
Burma, Laos
outside mainland China
How Many People Speak
5,000.0071,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Pangal
Xiguan
Where They Speak
Bangladesh, India
Hong Kong
How Many People Speak
273,000.0071,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Meithei proper
Hong Kong
Where They Speak
Bangladesh, Burma, Northeast India
Hong Kong
How Many People Speak
1,250,000.0070,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
63
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
1.50 million60.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.01 %16.00 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
1.50 million52.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
1.50 million71.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
মৈইতৈইলোন
Kwang Tung Wa
Alternative Names
Kathe, Kathi, Manipuri, Meiteilon, Meiteiron, Meithe, Meitei, Menipuri, Mitei, Mithe, Ponna
Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese
French Name
Meithei
cantonais
German Name
Meithei
Kantonesisch
Pronunciation
[ˈmeɪteɪ]
[kʰɐn˧˥tʰœːn˧˥sɨ˧˥]
Ethnicity
Meithei people
Han Chinese
Origin
1700
17th century
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman
-
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Meithei
Standard Cantonese
Language Position
381
1
120
👆🏻
Signed Forms
Meithei Sign Language
Signed Cantonese
Scope
-
-
ISO 639 1
No data available
No data available
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
mni
yue
ISO 639 2/B
mni
yue
ISO 639 3
mni
No data available
ISO 639 6
mni
yue
Glottocode
mani1292
cant1236
Linguasphere
omp
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
-
-
Language Linguistic Typology
-
-
Language Morphological Typology
-
-