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Preferred term

mniManipuri  

Type

  • Language

Definition

  • Meitei-lon (মৈতৈলোন্ ), also Meitei-lol (মৈতৈলোল্ ) and Manipuri (মণিপুরি ) (and sometimes, the 19th century British term, Meithei (মৈথৈ ), which is the name of the people, not of the language), is the predominant language and lingua franca in the southeastern Himalayan state of Manipur, in northeastern India. It is the official language in government offices. Meitei-lon is also spoken in the Indian states of Assam and Tripura, and in Bangladesh and Burma (now Myanmar).

Entry terms

  • Meitei language

ISO 639-2 Bibliographical code

  • mni

ISO 639-2 Terminological code

  • mni

ISO 639-3 code

  • mni

Notation

  • mni

In other languages

  • Meitei

    French

  • manipuri
  • Meitei

    German

  • Meithei-Sprache
  • manipuri

    Italian

  • Lingua manipuri
  • Portuguese

  • Língua manipuri
  • manipuri

    Spanish

  • Idioma meitei

URI

http://lexvo.org/id/iso639-3/mni

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