1 Countries
1.1 Countries
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
Bangladesh, Burma, Northeast India
Sri Lanka
1.4 Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Sri Lanka
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
Assam, Manipur, Tripura
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.7 Regulated By
Not Available
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
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.
- In Sinhalese language, there are many loanwords from Dravidian languages mainly Tamil, Portuguese, Dutch and English.
- Sinhalese language has it own script/ writing system.
1.9 Similar To
Bengali, Odia, Maithili and Meithei Languages
Maldivian Language
1.10 Derived From
Not Available
Sanskrit Language
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
2.5 Writing Direction
Not Available
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
3.3 How Are You?
Nung_ngai_biribra adombo?
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
3.4 Good Night
Athengba Ahing
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
3.5 Good Evening
Not Available
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
3.6 Good Afternoon
Not Available
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
3.7 Good Morning
Nongale haugatl
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
3.8 Please
Chanbiduna
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
3.9 Sorry
Saobiganu
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
3.10 Bye
3.11 I Love You
Eina nangbu nungsi
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
3.12 Excuse Me
Not Available
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
4.2 Dialect 2
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Bangladesh, India
Not Available
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
273,000.00NA
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
Meithei proper
Not Available
4.3.1 Where They Speak
Bangladesh, Burma, Northeast India
Not Available
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
1,250,000.00NA
1400
96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
1.50 million16.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
1.3 Native Speakers
1.50 million16.00 million
0.13
873
2.2.1 Second Language Speakers
2.3.2 Native Name
2.3.3 Alternative Names
Kathe, Kathi, Manipuri, Meiteilon, Meiteiron, Meithe, Meitei, Menipuri, Mitei, Mithe, Ponna
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
2.3.4 French Name
2.3.5 German Name
2.4 Pronunciation
Not Available
Not Available
2.5 Ethnicity
Meithei people
Sinhalese people
3 History
3.1 Origin
3.2 Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Indo-European Family
3.2.1 Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman
Indo-Iranian
3.2.2 Branch
3.3 Language Forms
3.3.1 Early Forms
No early forms
Sinhalese Prakrit
3.3.2 Standard Forms
Standard Meithei
Modern Sinhalese
3.3.3 Language Position
3.3.5 Signed Forms
Not Available
Not Available
3.4 Scope
4 Code
4.1 ISO 639 1
4.2 ISO 639 2
4.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
4.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
4.3 ISO 639 3
4.4 ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
4.5 Glottocode
4.6 Linguasphere
4.7 Types of Language
4.7.1 Language Type
4.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
Subject-Object-Verb
4.7.3 Language Morphological Typology