Countries
India, Manipur
European Union, Finland
Total No. Of Countries
12
0
46
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National Language
Bangladesh, Burma, Northeast India
Estonia, Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Estonia
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia, Europe
Minority Language
Assam, Manipur, Tripura
Republic of Karelia, Russian Federation, Sweden
Regulated By
-
Institute for the Languages of Finland
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.
- Finnish language has adopted many words from Iranian, Turkic, Baltic, Germanic and Slavic languages.
- In Finnish language, there are no articles or grammatical gender.
Similar To
Bengali, Odia, Maithili and Meithei Languages
Estonian and Livonian Languages
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2729
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
68
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
1513
9
60
👆🏻
Scripts
Bengali
Latin
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
34
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
Khurumjari
Moi
Thank You
Yamna nungaijare
Kiitos
How Are You?
Nung_ngai_biribra adombo?
Mitä kuuluu?
Good Night
Athengba Ahing
hyvää yötä
Good Evening
মানিপুরি
Hyvää iltaa
Good Afternoon
দুপুরোয়াক নমস্কাৰ
Hyvää iltapäivää
Good Morning
Nongale haugatl
Hyvää huomenta
Please
Chanbiduna
haluta
Sorry
Saobiganu
Anteeksi
Bye
Chatcharage
Heippa
I Love You
Eina nangbu nungsi
Minä rakastan sinua
Excuse Me
দুঃখিত
Anteeksi
Dialect 1
Loi
Colloquial Finnish
Where They Speak
Burma, Laos
Finland
How Many People Speak
5,000.005,600,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Pangal
Rauma
Where They Speak
Bangladesh, India
Finland, Rauma
How Many People Speak
273,000.005,600,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Meithei proper
Meänkieli
Where They Speak
Bangladesh, Burma, Northeast India
Finland, Sweden
How Many People Speak
1,250,000.0060,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
621
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
1.50 million5.40 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.01 %0.13 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
1.50 million5.40 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
1.50 million0.01 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
মৈইতৈইলোন
suomi / suomen kieli
Alternative Names
Kathe, Kathi, Manipuri, Meiteilon, Meiteiron, Meithe, Meitei, Menipuri, Mitei, Mithe, Ponna
Suomi
French Name
Meithei
finnois
German Name
Meithei
Finnisch
Pronunciation
[ˈmeɪteɪ]
[ˈsuomi]
Ethnicity
Meithei people
ethnic Finns
Origin
1700
1543
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Uralic Family
Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman
Finno-Ugric
Branch
-
Finnic
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Proto-Finnic language
Standard Forms
Standard Meithei
standard Finnish
Language Position
3822
1
120
👆🏻
Signed Forms
Meithei Sign Language
Signed Finnish
Scope
-
Individual
ISO 639 1
No data available
fi
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
mni
fin
ISO 639 2/B
mni
fin
ISO 639 3
mni
fin
ISO 639 6
mni
fin
Glottocode
mani1292
finn1318
Linguasphere
omp
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
-
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
-
Agglutinative, Synthetic