1 Countries
1.1 Countries
India, Manipur
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
Bangladesh, Burma, Northeast India
China, Taiwan
1.4 Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Republic of Brazil
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
Assam, Manipur, Tripura
Indonesia, Malaysia
1.7 Regulated By
Not Available
Chinese Language Standardization Council, National Commission on Language and Script Work, Promote Mandarin Council
1.8 Interesting Facts
- Meithei Language is currently classified as a vulnerable language by UNESCO.
- The oldest document in Methei language was dated back in 8th century were inscriptions on the copper plate.
- Chinese language is tonal, since meaning of a word changes according to its tone.
- In Chinese language, there is no grammatical distinction between singular or plural, no declination of verbs according to tense, mood and aspect.
1.9 Similar To
Bengali, Odia, Maithili and Meithei Languages
Not Available
1.10 Derived From
Not Available
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2 Alphabets
2.1 Alphabets in
2.2 Alphabets
2.3 Phonology
2.3.1 How Many Vowels
2.3.2 How Many Consonants
2.4 Scripts
Bengali
Chinese Characters and derivatives
2.5 Writing Direction
Not Available
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
2.6 Hard to Learn
2.6.1 Language Levels
2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
3.2 Thank You
Yamna nungaijare
谢谢 (Xièxiè)
3.3 How Are You?
Nung_ngai_biribra adombo?
你好吗？ (Nǐ hǎo ma?)
3.4 Good Night
Athengba Ahing
晚安 (Wǎn'ān)
3.5 Good Evening
Not Available
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)
3.6 Good Afternoon
Not Available
下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)
3.7 Good Morning
Nongale haugatl
早安 (Zǎo ān)
3.8 Please
3.9 Sorry
3.10 Bye
3.11 I Love You
Eina nangbu nungsi
我爱你 (Wǒ ài nǐ)
3.12 Excuse Me
Not Available
劳驾 (Láojià)
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Burma, Laos
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
5,000.00960,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Bangladesh, India
China, United States of America
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
273,000.0080,000,000.00
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
4.3.1 Where They Speak
Bangladesh, Burma, Northeast India
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
1,250,000.0060,000,000.00
1400
96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
1.50 million1,051.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
1.50 million873.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
NA178.00 million
0.01
400
5.3.2 Native Name
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Kathe, Kathi, Manipuri, Meiteilon, Meiteiron, Meithe, Meitei, Menipuri, Mitei, Mithe, Ponna
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5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
Not Available
Not Available
5.5 Ethnicity
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman
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6.2.2 Branch
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6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Standard Meithei
Standard Chinese
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Not Available
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))
6.4 Scope
7 Code
7.1 ISO 639 1
7.2 ISO 639 2
7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
7.3 ISO 639 3
7.4 ISO 639 6
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7.5 Glottocode
7.6 Linguasphere
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
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Subject-Verb-Object
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
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Analytic, Isolating