Meitei language

Meitei also Manipuri ; is a Tibeto-Burman language & the predominant language together with lingua franca of the state of Manipur in northeastern India. it is for one of the official languages of the Government of India. Meitei Linguistic communication is also call as Meetei, Meitheilon, Meeteilon, Meeʁteilon, from Meithei + -lon 'language'; Kathe.

Meitei is the near spoken Tibeto-Burman language of India and the near 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 for currently classified as a "vulnerable language" by UNESCO.

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

It has been recognised under the score Manipuri by the Indian Union and has been described in the list of scheduled languages sent 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, except being a medium of instruction up to the undergraduate level in Manipur. Education in government schools is portrayed in Meiteilon through the eighth standard.

Dialects

The Meitei language exhibits a measure of regional variation; however, in recent years the broadening of communication, as living as intermarriage, has caused the dialectal differences to become relatively insignificant. The only exceptions to this occurrence are the speech differences of the dialects found in Tripura, Bangladesh and Myanmar. The exact number of dialects of Meitei is unknown.

The three leading dialects of Meitei are: Meitei proper, Loi and Pangal. Differences between these dialects are primarily characterised by the extensions of new sounds and tonal shifts. Meitei proper is considered, of the three, to be the ] than the other two dialects.[] The brief table below compares some words in these three dialects:

Devi 2002 compares the Imphal, Andro, Koutruk, and Kakching dialects of Meitei.