Countries
India, Manipur
China, Nepal
Total No. Of Countries
12
0
46
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National Language
Bangladesh, Burma, Northeast India
Nepal, Tibet
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
China, India, Nepal
Regulated By
-
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
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.
- Tibetan dialects vary alot, so it's difficult for tibetans to understand each other if they are not from same area.
- Tibetan is tonal with six tones in all: short low, long low, high falling, low falling, short high, long high.
Similar To
Bengali, Odia, Maithili and Meithei Languages
Nepali and Bhutanese Languages
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2735
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
65
0
32
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How Many Consonants
1530
9
60
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Scripts
Bengali
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
32
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks24 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Khurumjari
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
Thank You
Yamna nungaijare
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
How Are You?
Nung_ngai_biribra adombo?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
Good Night
Athengba Ahing
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
Good Evening
মানিপুরি
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
Good Afternoon
দুপুরোয়াক নমস্কাৰ
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
Good Morning
Nongale haugatl
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
Please
Chanbiduna
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
Sorry
Saobiganu
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
Bye
Chatcharage
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
I Love You
Eina nangbu nungsi
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
Excuse Me
দুঃখিত
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
Dialect 1
Loi
Central Tibetan
Where They Speak
Burma, Laos
China, India, Nepal
How Many People Speak
5,000.001,200,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Pangal
Khams Tibetan
Where They Speak
Bangladesh, India
Bhutan, China
How Many People Speak
273,000.001,400,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Meithei proper
Amdo Tibetan
Where They Speak
Bangladesh, Burma, Northeast India
China
How Many People Speak
1,250,000.001,800,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
66
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
1.50 million1.20 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.01 %0.05 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
1.50 million1.20 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
1.50 million6.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
মৈইতৈইলোন
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
Alternative Names
Kathe, Kathi, Manipuri, Meiteilon, Meiteiron, Meithe, Meitei, Menipuri, Mitei, Mithe, Ponna
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
French Name
Meithei
tibétain
German Name
Meithei
Tibetisch
Pronunciation
[ˈmeɪteɪ]
[tibetan]
Ethnicity
Meithei people
tibetan people
Origin
1700
c. 650
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman
Tibeto-Burman
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
Standard Forms
Standard Meithei
Standard Tibetan
Language Position
3829
1
120
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Signed Forms
Meithei Sign Language
Tibetan Sign Language
Scope
-
-
ISO 639 1
No data available
bo
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
mni
bod
ISO 639 2/B
mni
tib
ISO 639 3
mni
bod
ISO 639 6
mni
bod
Glottocode
mani1292
tibe1272
Linguasphere
omp
No data Available
Types of Language
Language Type
-
-
Language Linguistic Typology
-
-
Language Morphological Typology
-
-