Talk:Meitei language

message: the following doesnt seem to belong here, but rather somewhere else:
:: There are more than 39 another language one is Bishnupriya (or Bishnupriya Manipuri), which was also spoken in the polyglot land of Manipur before 15th century, which is mentioned in Sir G.A.Griersons 'Linguistic Survey of India'. The language contains many pre-meithei vocabulary.
– ishwar  (speak) 18:46, 5 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: paragraph removed

message: There are a lot of links relating to a yahoo group called "Seirangba Marup, the Yahoo Group of Manipuri Art and Literature". What is the purpose?
Maddy 09:10, 6 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposal. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. No further edits should be made to this section. 
The result of the discussion was move. —-- Evertype·✆ 11:04, 29 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Link worth mentioning?

message: Add  * Support  or  * Oppose  on a new line followed by a brief explanation, then sign your opinion using ~~~~.
*Support as nominator. -- Evertype·✆ 10:16, 28 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Survey

message: This article was automatically assessed because at least one WikiProject had rated the article as start, and the rating on other projects was brought up to start class. BetacommandBot 18:45, 9 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  WikiProject class rating

message: Everything else says it’s mostly written with Bengali (if not Meithei Mayek) but the infobox says Devnagari. Huh? —Wiki Wikardo 08:44, 13 April 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Orthography 

message: I think that the assertion that Manipur is a himalayan state,  is wrong.Eregli bob (talk) 12:26, 20 August 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Manipur is not a himaliyan state the term "Manipur" was only in used since late 17th century because of a series of events.It was a sovereign state for more than 1000 years with many names of "Meitei language" for the state prefered by the ruling monarch ."Kangleipak" is  native name of the state.Luwanglinux (talk) 16:07, 20 October 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Himalayan state ? 

message: The assertion that Manipur is a himalayan state, is wrong.     this section in the green section is also wrong.Eregli bob (talk) 12:27, 20 August 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Himalayan state ? 

message: Add these titles to a further reading or bibliography section. The trilingual English, Bangali and Manipuri dictionary is in public domain although Mittal Publications republished it, so it should go with Primrose's book into wikisource.
A Manipuri grammar, vocabulary, and phrase book: to which are added some Manipuri proverbs and specimens of Manipuri correspondence By Arthur John Primrose
http://books.google.com/books?id=0L3M1OmJhesC&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false
A Dictionary in English Bangali and Manipuri
A Dictionary in English Bangali and Manipuri
Publisher	Mittal Publications
http://books.google.com/books?id=_vdX6_ou9qcC&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false
A Dictionary in English, Bengali, and Manipuri
Title	A Dictionary in English, Bengali, and Manipuri
Publisher	Mittal, 1983
Original from	the University of Michigan
Digitized	May 8, 2008
Length	341 pages
http://books.google.com/books?id=yHhjAAAAMAAJ
A Dictionary of English, Bengali, and Manipuri. Second Edition. Revised. [The Bengali Portion Revised by B.K. Bhaṭtāchārya, and the Manipuri Portion by William Pettigrew.].
Title	A Dictionary of English, Bengali, and Manipuri. Second Edition. Revised. [The Bengali Portion Revised by B.K. Bhaṭtāchārya, and the Manipuri Portion by William Pettigrew.].
Authors	George Lawrie GORDON, B. K. BHAṬTĀCHĀRYA, Rev. William PETTIGREW
Publisher	Calcutta, 1896
Length	292 pages
http://books.google.com/books?id=z6YUMwEACAAJ
A Dictionary in English, Bengali and Manipuri... 2nde Edition. [Revised].
Title	A Dictionary in English, Bengali and Manipuri... 2nde Edition. [Revised].
Publisher	the Baptist Mission Press, 1896
http://books.google.com/books?id=DRx0QwAACAAJ
A Dictionary in English, Bengali and Manipuri
Title	A Dictionary in English, Bengali and Manipuri
Authors	George Lawrie Gordon, B. K. Bhattacharya, William Pettigrew
Publisher	Mittal publications, 1989
Length	341 pages
http://books.google.com/books?id=fmEZQwAACAAJ
Education during British rule
http://books.google.com/books?id=AgIPAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA84#v=onepage&q&f=false
http://books.google.com/books?id=D7nNAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA84#v=onepage&q&f=false
http://books.google.com/books?id=_bUOAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA486#v=onepage&q&f=false
http://books.google.com/books?id=l5VCAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA215#v=onepage&q&f=false
http://books.google.com/books?id=cRgkAAAAMAAJ&pg=RA1-PA215#v=onepage&q&f=false
Rajmaan (talk) 22:11, 9 March 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Meitei Grammars and Dictionaries 

message: Currently, it has the two lines মৈতৈলোন্ ꯃꯧꯇꯧꯂꯣꯟ and মৈতৈলোল্ ꯃꯤꯇꯧꯂꯣꯟ. The first line gives the name Meiteilon in Bengali script and Moutoulon in Meitei Mayek script. The second line says Meiteilol in Bengali script and Mitoulon in Meitei Mayek. Frankly, this does not make much sense.
I would rather expect that, provided the terms are spelled correctly in Bengali, the two Meitei Mayek forms should be ꯃꯩꯇꯩꯂꯣꯟ Meiteilon and ꯃꯩꯇꯩꯂꯣꯜ Meiteilol (the ei and ou signs are extremely similar, but ei is a little shorter). But then, I know nothing about this all except the letters, so I do not dare to edit it. 112.134.197.11 (talk) 22:33, 27 February 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  The box top right is confusing (and probably wrong) 

message: Each reference to the language in the article is as "Manipuri or Meithellon", which looks ridiculous.  The alternate names should be listed at the front, but from then on, we should use whatever language name we choose for the head.  I am about to make that edit.  We should discuss if anybody wants to edit back.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by EthanRBradford (talk • contribs) 18:36, 29 March 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: So, what you'd rather then? (Not making criticism) 177.105.94.163 (talk) 21:37, 11 May 2024 (UTC)
thread_title: Repeating "Manipuri or Meithellon" looks silly

message: I came here looking for the earliest ate of attestation, but did not find it. I am dissappointed. Tibetologist (talk) 14:00, 3 September 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: Date of earliest attestation

message: Hi, it is regarding this edit. Since it is not official, and only a proposal as of now, I believe it would be better to mention it elsewhere in the article body and not the lead. After it gets official, we can add it as a gist in the lead. - Fylindfotberserk (talk) 11:34, 30 July 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Fylindfotberserk Let's push the paragraph down by creating a new section "Status" like that of Marathi language article. --Haoreima (talk) 11:36, 30 July 2022 (UTC)
replies: text:  Would be nice. - Fylindfotberserk (talk) 11:38, 30 July 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  July 2022 

message: In the infobox of the current version of the article  there's a rather long list of states where Meitei is spoken, including for example Arunachal and Mizoram. What has been the basis for inclusion in this list? The sources are just the census tables, and all they show is that they are some speakers in all of those states. But there are speakers in all states of India, and in some of the states not included there are more speakers than in some of the those that were included (see table below).
State                    	Meitei speakers
India                    	1761079
Manipur                  	1522132
Assam                    	168133
Tripura                  	23779
Nagaland                 	9511
Meghalaya                	4451
Karnataka                	4103
Nct Of Delhi             	3892
Maharashtra              	3475
Arunachal Pradesh        	2835
Jammu & Kashmir          	2370
Mizoram                  	2242
Rajasthan                	2168
West Bengal              	2010
Andhra Pradesh           	1356
Uttar Pradesh            	1204
Madhya Pradesh           	1009
Tamil Nadu               	928
Punjab                   	901
Haryana                  	563
Uttarakhand              	490
Chandigarh               	460
Kerala                   	444
Gujarat                  	408
Sikkim                   	383
Goa                      	367
Jharkhand                	364
Odisha                   	306
Bihar                    	238
Chhattisgarh             	202
Himachal Pradesh         	188
Dadra & Nagar Haveli     	<100
Andaman & Nicobar Islands	<100
Daman & Diu              	<100
Puducherry               	<100
Source: 
I'll add a brief section to the article, which will list the regions with the highest populations (I'm planning to stop the enumeration just after Nagaland, because there's a natural break there). As for the infobox, all it really needs is a mention of the region where the overwhelming majority of the speakers are found (see Template:Infobox language for how that parameter is meant to be used). – Uanfala (talk) 17:30, 14 October 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Geographic distribution 

message: Hello ! Could you please help me in finding out standard sources about the fact to know whether Meitei language belongs to Kuki Chin Naga family or Kuki Chin Mizo family or independent from both and just belonging to central Tibeto Burman language family? It's highly disputed among the opinions of different scholars and I think we need to properly clarify the facts by citing every notable scholars' comments by creating a separate section within the article. I started thinking about it after a recent edit by someone in the article Burmese Indians. --Haoreima (talk) 14:18, 28 February 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm afraid I know absolutely nothing about Sino-Tibetan linguistics. But if I were you, I would probably start with the sources at Glottolog: it lists  and  for its classification of its "Kuki-Chin-Naga" branch. The latter of these sources is from 2017, so it will probably have a relatively up-to-date bibliography with other relevant sources. You can also try Glottolog's own bibliography for this group : you'd need to filter the table by selecting "Doctype" to be "comparative", but that's probably casting the net too widely: most of the sources there are unlikely to have substantial discussion of the placement of Meitei itself. Maybe you can also ask for help at Talk:Sino-Tibetan languages? – Uanfala (talk) 23:07, 28 February 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Language family