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The Meitei script (Meitei: ꯃꯩꯇꯩ ꯃꯌꯦꯛ, romanized: Meitei mayek), also known as the Kanglei script (Meitei: ꯀꯪꯂꯩ ꯃꯌꯦꯛ, romanized: Kanglei mayek) [5] or the Kok Sam Lai script (Meitei: ꯀꯣꯛ ꯁꯝ ꯂꯥꯏ ꯃꯌꯦꯛ, romanized: Kok Sam Lai mayek), after its first three letters [6] [7] is an abugida in the Brahmic scripts family used to write the Meitei ...
Meitei (/ ˈ m eɪ t eɪ /; [4] ꯃꯩꯇꯩꯂꯣꯟ, Eastern Nagari script: মৈতৈলোন্, [mejtejlon] , romanized: meiteilon) also known as Manipuri (ꯃꯅꯤꯄꯨꯔꯤ, Eastern Nagari script: মণিপুরী, [mɐnipuɾi] ), is a Tibeto-Burman language of northeast India.
Meitei script movement, also called Meetei script movement (sometimes also referred to as Manipuri script movement), is a series of cultural wars and campaigns, undertaken by various cultural and sociopolitical associations and organisations as well as notable individual personalities, against the Government of Manipur and other authorities concerned, regarding the revivalism and the ...
It makes Meitei language (officially known as Manipuri language) as the official language of the Government of Manipur. It was initially enacted in 1979 but later amended in 2021, to replace Bengali script's sole usage by the concurrent usage of both Meitei script (officially known as Meetei Mayek) and Bengali script, for writing the Meitei ...
Chungkham Yashawanta, a professor of the Department of Linguistics, Manipur University wrote that to fulfill the four criteria for a classical language, there is a need for the scientific analysis of Meitei language and Meitei script, the prehistory and the unbroken history of Manipur, Meitei culture (including religious, philosophical ...
All the ancient Meitei literary works are written in the traditional Meitei script. [1] The ancient Meitei language texts, written in Meitei script, are conventionally termed as "the puyas". [2] Many of the ancient Meitei literary works need transliteration and translation, as the language used is often "obscure and unintelligible" to the ...
The Meitei are known by a number of endonyms, Meitei, Meetei, Meithei , [1] and as well as by numerous exonyms, such as Meckley, [17] [18] Manipuri, Cassay-Shan, and Kathe . [ 19 ] The term Manipuri is widely used, but problematic because of its ambiguous scope: next to being a synonym for Meitei / Meetei , it can also refer in a wider sense to ...
The Meitei script is a Brahmic abugida. It is known only from the Puya manuscripts discovered in the first half of the 20th century. Manuscripts of the 18th and 19th centuries were written using the Bengali alphabet. The existence of the Meitei script in the 15th-century hinges on the authenticity of an inscription dated to the reign of Senbi ...