Countries
India, Manipur
Indonesia
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
👆🏻
National Language
Bangladesh, Burma, Northeast India
Indonesia
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
Malaysia, Netherlands, Singapore, Suriname
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.
- The Javanese group is the largest ethnic group in Indonesian.
- The earliest writing in Javanese dates from the 4th Century AD, at that time Javanese was written with the Pallava alphabet.
Similar To
Bengali, Odia, Maithili and Meithei Languages
Madurese, Sundanese and Balinese Languages
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2727
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
66
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
1521
9
60
👆🏻
Scripts
Bengali
Arabic, Javanese, Latin
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
34
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks36 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
Khurumjari
Halo
Thank You
Yamna nungaijare
matur nuwun
How Are You?
Nung_ngai_biribra adombo?
piye kabare?
Good Night
Athengba Ahing
wengi sing apik
Good Evening
মানিপুরি
Sugeng sọnten
Good Afternoon
দুপুরোয়াক নমস্কাৰ
Sugeng siang
Good Morning
Nongale haugatl
Sugeng énjing
Please
Chanbiduna
matur nuwun
Sorry
Saobiganu
Nyuwun pangapunten
Bye
Chatcharage
Kepanggih malih benjang
I Love You
Eina nangbu nungsi
Kula tresna panjengan
Excuse Me
দুঃখিত
Nuwun séwu
Dialect 1
Loi
Pekalongan
Where They Speak
Burma, Laos
Indonesia
How Many People Speak
5,000.0082,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Pangal
Cirebon
Where They Speak
Bangladesh, India
Indonesia
How Many People Speak
273,000.0082,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Meithei proper
Arekan
Where They Speak
Bangladesh, Burma, Northeast India
Indonesia
How Many People Speak
1,250,000.0082,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
616
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
1.50 million82.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.01 %1.25 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
1.50 million76.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
1.50 million82.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
মৈইতৈইলোন
basa Jawa
Alternative Names
Kathe, Kathi, Manipuri, Meiteilon, Meiteiron, Meithe, Meitei, Menipuri, Mitei, Mithe, Ponna
Djawa, Jawa
French Name
Meithei
javanais
German Name
Meithei
Javanisch
Pronunciation
[ˈmeɪteɪ]
[dʒɑˈʋɑnɛs]
Ethnicity
Meithei people
Javanese (Mataram, Osing, Tenggerese, Boyanese, Samin, Cirebonese, Banyumasan, etc)
Origin
1700
450 AD
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Austronesian Family
Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman
Indonesian
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Meithei
Javanese
Language Position
3811
1
120
👆🏻
Signed Forms
Meithei Sign Language
Javanese Sign Language
Scope
-
Individual
ISO 639 1
No data available
jv
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
mni
jav
ISO 639 2/B
mni
jav
ISO 639 3
mni
jav
ISO 639 6
mni
jav
Glottocode
mani1292
java1253
Linguasphere
omp
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
-
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
-
Agglutinative