Meitei
Tibeto-Burman language of India
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Summary
Meitei is a language[1]. Meitei ranks in the top 0.84% of language entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (2,194 views/month, #47 of 5,611).[2]
Key Facts
- Ethnic group: Meitei people[3]
- Country: Bangladesh[4], India[5], Myanmar[6]
- Instance of: modern language[7]
- Subclass of: Sino-Tibetan[8]
- Writing system: Meetei Mayek[9], Bangla alphabet[10], Bangla–Assamese script[11]
- Part of: Schedule languages of India[12]
- Commons category: Meitei language[13]
- Wikimedia language code: mni[14]
- Topic's main category: Category:Meitei language[15]
- Number of speakers, writers, or signers: 1,470,000[16]
- Has characteristic: Sahitya Akademi Prize for Translation in Meitei[17]
- Native label: ꯃꯤꯇꯩ ꯂꯣꯟ[18]
- UNESCO language status: 2 vulnerable[19]
- Indigenous to: Sylhet Division[20], Assam[21], Manipur[22], Mizoram[23], Nagaland[24], Meitei people[25]
- Exact match: http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/language/MNI[26]
- Ethnologue language status: 2 Provincial[27]
- Category for films in this language: Category:Meitei-language films[28]
Why It Matters
Meitei has Wikipedia articles in 26 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[29] Meitei is known by 70 alternative names across languages and contexts.[30]