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Meitei / Manipuri (Meitheilon, Meeteilon, Kathe)
Region: Northeast India, Bangladesh, Myanmar
Ethnicity: Meitei & Pangal
Native speakers: 1.76 million
Language family: Sino-Tibetan

is a Tibeto-Burman language and the predominant language and lingua franca of the state of Manipur in northeastern India. It is one of the official languages of the Government of India.

Meitei is the most spoken Tibeto-Burman language of India and the most spoken language in Northeast India after Bengali and Assamese. In the 2011 census of India, there were 1.8 million native speakers of Meitei. Additionally, there are around 200,000 native speakers of Meitei abroad. Meiteilon is also spoken in the Northeast Indian states of Assam and Tripura and in Bangladesh and Burma (now Myanmar). It is currently classified as a "vulnerable language" by UNESCO.

Meiteilon is a tonal language whose exact classification within Sino-Tibetan remains unclear. It has lexical resemblances to Kuki and Tangkhul Naga.

It has been recognised (under the name Manipuri) by the Indian Union and has been included in the list of scheduled languages (included in the 8th schedule by the 71st amendment of the constitution in 1992). Meiteilon is taught as a subject up to the post-graduate level (Ph.D.) in some universities of India, apart from being a medium of instruction up to the undergraduate level in Manipur. Education in government schools is provided in Meiteilon through the eighth standard.

LINKS:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meitei_language
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meitei_people
https://www.britannica.com/topic/Manipuri-language
https://www.ethnologue.com/language/MNI
https://omniglot.com/writing/manipuri.htm
https://www.jw.org/en/

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