Countries
India, Manipur
  
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
  
National Language
Bangladesh, Burma, Northeast India
  
Russia
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Afganistan
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Asia, Europe
  
Minority Language
Assam, Manipur, Tripura
  
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, Poland, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
  
Regulated By
Not Available
  
Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
  
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.
  
- In Russian language, the words are not pronounced as they are written.
- In Russian language, there are only 200,000 words out of which only few words are used and due to this many words have more than one meaning.
  
Similar To
Bengali, Odia, Maithili and Meithei Languages
  
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary
  
Alphabets in
Meithei-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Russian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Bengali
  
Cyrillic
  
Writing Direction
Not Available
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Khurumjari
  
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)
  
Thank You
Yamna nungaijare
  
спасибо(spasibo)
  
How Are You?
Nung_ngai_biribra adombo?
  
Как дела? (Kak dela?)
  
Good Night
Athengba Ahing
  
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)
  
Good Evening
Not Available
  
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)
  
Good Afternoon
Not Available
  
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')
  
Good Morning
Nongale haugatl
  
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)
  
Please
Chanbiduna
  
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)
  
Sorry
Saobiganu
  
Извините(Izvinite)
  
Bye
Chatcharage
  
до свидания(do svidaniya)
  
I Love You
Eina nangbu nungsi
  
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)
  
Excuse Me
Not Available
  
извините(izvinite)
  
Dialect 1
Loi
  
Doukhobor Russian
  
Where They Speak
Burma, Laos
  
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
  
Dialect 2
Pangal
  
Olonets
  
Where They Speak
Bangladesh, India
  
Olonets
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Meithei proper
  
Novgorod
  
Where They Speak
Bangladesh, Burma, Northeast India
  
Novgorod
  
How Many People Speak
1,250,000.00
  
19
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
1.50 million
  
99+
276.00 million
  
6
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
1.50 million
  
99+
166.00 million
  
8
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
110.00 million
  
7
Native Name
মৈইতৈইলোন
  
Русский
  
Alternative Names
Kathe, Kathi, Manipuri, Meiteilon, Meiteiron, Meithe, Meitei, Menipuri, Mitei, Mithe, Ponna
  
Russki
  
French Name
Meithei
  
russe
  
German Name
Meithei
  
Russisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
  
Ethnicity
Meithei people
  
Russians
  
Origin
1700
  
1000 AD
  
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
  
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
  
Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman
  
Slavic
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Eastern
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
Old East Slavic
  
Standard Forms
Standard Meithei
  
Standard Russian
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Signed Russian
  
Scope
Not Available
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
No data available
  
ru
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
mni
  
rus
  
ISO 639 2/B
mni
  
rus
  
ISO 639 3
mni
  
rus
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
mani1292
  
russ1263
  
Linguasphere
omp
  
53-AAA-ea
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Not Available
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Fusional, Synthetic