Ancient Meitei language
Ancient Sino-Tibetan language
Ancient Meitei or Old Manipuri was the early form of the present day Meitei language (Manipuri language) and was the national language of Ancient Manipur.[3][4][5] The language is as old as the reign of Emperor "Tangja Leela Pakhangba" in Ancient Manipur, right from 1445 BC,[6][7] and was spoken upto the beginning of the Medieval Manipur.[7]
| Ancient Meitei | |
|---|---|
| Old Manipuri | |
| ꯃꯩꯇꯩꯂꯣꯟ | |
 | |
| Region | Ancient Manipur |
| Ethnicity | Meitei ethnicity |
| Era | Ancient Manipur[1] |
Sino-Tibetan
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| Meitei script[2] | |
| Official status | |
Official language in | Ancient Manipur |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | omp |
omp Old Manipuri | |
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ReferencesEdit
- ↑ Ancient Meitei at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
Old Manipuri at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) - ↑ Primrose, Arthur John (1888). A Manipuri Grammar, Vocabulary, and Phrase Book: To which are Added Some Manipuri Proverbs and Specimens of Manipuri Correspondence. Assam Secretariat Press. p. 1.
- ↑ "OLAC resources in and about the Old Manipuri language".
- ↑ "Omp | ISO 639-3".
- ↑ http://multitree.org/codes/omp
- ↑ "Meitei Kings".
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 KanglaOnline. "Manipuri is a classical language | KanglaOnline". Retrieved 2021-04-19.
- General references
- Khelchandra Ningthoukhongjam Singh, History Of Old Manipuri Literature https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.466183
- Iboyaima Laithangbam, Banished Manipuri script stages a comeback, September 23, 2017 https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/other-states/banished-manipuri-script-stages-a-comeback/article19743482.ece