Countries
India, Manipur
India, Nepal
Total No. Of Countries
12
0
46
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National Language
Bangladesh, Burma, Northeast India
Nepal
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Republic of Brazil
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Assam, Manipur, Tripura
People's Republic of China
Regulated By
-
Language Academy of Nepal
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.
- Before the term "Nepali" was coined, historically the language was first called the Khas language, Gorkhali or Gukhali.
- Nepali has borrowed many loanwords from neighboring Tibeto-Burmese languages.
Similar To
Bengali, Odia, Maithili and Meithei Languages
Hindi
Derived From
-
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2748
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
612
0
32
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How Many Consonants
1536
9
60
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Scripts
Bengali
Devanagari
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
36
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
Khurumjari
नमस्ते (namaste)
Thank You
Yamna nungaijare
धन्यवाद (dhanyabad)
How Are You?
Nung_ngai_biribra adombo?
तिमीलाई कस्तो छ? (timi lai kasto cha?)
Good Night
Athengba Ahing
शुभ रात्री (subha ratri)
Good Evening
মানিপুরি
शुभ सन्ध्या (subha sandhya)
Good Afternoon
দুপুরোয়াক নমস্কাৰ
Good afternoon
Good Morning
Nongale haugatl
शुभ प्रभात (subha prabhat)
Please
Chanbiduna
कृपया
Sorry
Saobiganu
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
Bye
Chatcharage
नमस्ते (namaste)
I Love You
Eina nangbu nungsi
म तपाइलाइ माया गर्छु। (ma tapainlai maya garchu)
Excuse Me
দুঃখিত
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
Dialect 1
Loi
Doteli
Where They Speak
Burma, Laos
Nepal
How Many People Speak
5,000.00790,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Pangal
Bajhangi
Where They Speak
Bangladesh, India
India, Nepal
How Many People Speak
273,000.0017,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Meithei proper
Baitadeli
Where They Speak
Bangladesh, Burma, Northeast India
Nepal
How Many People Speak
1,250,000.0017,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
612
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
1.50 million30.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.01 %0.25 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
1.50 million25.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
1.50 million5.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
মৈইতৈইলোন
नेपाली (nēpālī)
Alternative Names
Kathe, Kathi, Manipuri, Meiteilon, Meiteiron, Meithe, Meitei, Menipuri, Mitei, Mithe, Ponna
Eastern Pahadi, Gorkhali, Gurkhali, Khaskura, Nepalese, Parbate
French Name
Meithei
népalais
German Name
Meithei
Nepali
Pronunciation
[ˈmeɪteɪ]
[neˈpali]
Ethnicity
Meithei people
Gurkha, Khas people, Madhesi and Tharu
Origin
1700
19 BC
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman
Indo-Iranian
Branch
-
Indic
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Khas language, Gurkhali, Parbatiya, Dzongkha Lhotshammikha
Standard Forms
Standard Meithei
Nepali
Language Position
3859
1
120
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Signed Forms
Meithei Sign Language
Signed Nepali
Scope
-
Individual, Macrolanguage
ISO 639 1
No data available
ne
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
mni
nep
ISO 639 2/B
mni
nep
ISO 639 3
mni
npi
ISO 639 6
mni
nep
Glottocode
mani1292
nepa1254
Linguasphere
omp
12
Types of Language
Language Type
-
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
-
Agglutinative