曼尼普尔语

曼尼普尔语，又称梅泰语（、pangal-lol）是印度東北部喜馬拉雅山區東南部的曼尼普尔邦的官方语言及共通語，属于汉藏语系。曼尼普尔语亦有在阿薩姆邦、特里普拉邦及孟加拉與緬甸通行。它已成為了曼尼普尔邦內各民族間的重要團結要素，因為各民族靠這種語言來互相溝通。

曼尼普尔语有独特的文字——（Meitei Mayek），运用该种文字书写的最古老的文献溯源于13世纪。

留意曼尼普爾語跟比什努普里亚-曼尼普尔语（ইমার ঠার/বিষ্ণুপ্রিয়া মণিপুরী）是兩種完全不同的語言：比什奴普萊利亞-曼尼普爾語是一種印度-雅利安语支的語言，但同樣通行於印度東北部、緬甸及孟加拉一帶，而且現時同樣使用孟加拉文來書寫。

方言 
曼尼普尔语有三種方言：
 Meiteieg (meitei)
 Loieg (loi)
 Pangaleg (pangal)

語音 

曼尼普尔语是一種帶聲調的語言。大概有兩個或三個聲調。

文法

書寫系統 

曼尼普尔语有独特的文字——（Meitei Mayek），运用该种文字书写的最古老的文書大約在11世紀到12世紀左右，但到18世紀就沒有再使用。從1891年英國開始在印度的管治時，曼尼普尔语開始採用孟加拉文來書寫，直到現在。不過，現時有建議要恢復使用曼尼普爾文。

參看 
 印度国家语言列表
 
 梅泰語運動

註釋

參考文獻

文化 
 Brara, N. Vijaylakshmi. (1998). Politics, society, and cosmology in India's North East. Delphi: Oxford University Press.
 Budha, W. (1992). Indigenous games of the Meiteis. Manipur: Wangkeimayum Publications.
 Singh, M. Kirti. (1988). Religion and culture of Manipur. Delhi: Manas Publications. 
 Singh, M. Kirti. (1993). Folk culture of Manipur. Delhi: Manas Publications.

語言 
 Bhat, D. N. S.; & Ningomba, S. (1997). Manipuri grammar. Munich: Lincom Europa. 
 Chelliah, Shobhana L. (1990). Experiencer subjects in Manipuri. In V. M. Manindra & K. P. Mohanan (Eds.), Experiencer subjects in South Asian languages (pp. 195-211). Stanford: The Center for the Study of Language and Information.
 Chelliah, Shobhana L. (1992). Tone in Manipuri. In K. L. Adams & T. J. Hudak (Eds.), Papers from the first annual meeting of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society 1991 (pp. 65-85). Tempe, AZ: Arizona State University.
 Chelliah, Shobhana L. (1992). Bracketing paradoxes in Manipuri. In M. Aronoff (Ed.), Morphology now (pp. 33-47). Albany: State University of New York Press.
 Chelliah, Shobhana L. (1994). Morphological change and fast speech phenomena in the Manipuri verb. In K. L. Adams & T. J. Hudak (Eds.), Papers from the second annual meeting of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society 1992 (pp. 121-134). Tempe, AZ: Arizona State University.
 Chelliah, Shobhana L. (1997). A grammar of Meithei. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. .
 Chelliah, Shobhana L. (2002). Early Meithei manuscripts. In C. I. Beckwith (Ed.), Medieval Tibeto-Burman languages: PIATS 2000: Tibetan studies: Proceedings of the ninth seminar of the International Association of Tibetan Studies, Leiden 2000 (pp. 59-71). Leiden, Netherlands: Brill.
 Chelliah, Shobhana L. (2002). A glossary of 39 basic words in archaic and modern Meithei. In C. I. Beckwith (Ed.), Medieval Tibeto-Burman languages: PIATS 2000: Tibetan studies: Proceedings of the ninth seminar of the International Association of Tibetan Studies, Leiden 2000 (pp. 189-190). Leiden, Netherlands: Brill.
 Chelliah, Shobhana L. (2004). Polysemy through metonymy: The case of Meithei pi 'grandmother'. Studies in Language, 28 (2), 363-386.
 Singh, Ningthoukhongjam Khelchandra. (1964). Manipuri to Manipuri & English dictionary.

外部連結 

 
 曼尼普尔语的传统文字（英語） 
 Manipuri/ Meiteilon: An Introduction  
 Meetei Mayek Alphabet 
 Learn to speak Manipuri, with the right pronunciation 
 Learn Manipuri 
 Learn Meitei Mayek (Meitei Script) - E-Pao.net
 Manipuri Poetry

Meitei
藏缅语族
印度語言
汉藏语系