Ancient Meitei | |
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Old Manipuri | |
ꯃꯩꯇꯩꯂꯣꯟ | |
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Region | Ancient Manipur |
Ethnicity | Meitei people |
Era | Ancient Manipur[1] |
Sino-Tibetan
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Meitei script[2] | |
Official status | |
Official language in | Ancient Manipur |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | omp |
Linguist List | omp Old Manipuri |
Ancient Meitei or Old Manipuri was the early form of the present day Meitei language (Manipuri language) and was the national language of Ancient Manipur.[3][4][5] The language is as old as the reign of Emperor "Tangja Leela Pakhangba" in Ancient Manipur, right from 1445 BC,[6][7] and was spoken upto the beginning of the Medieval Manipur.[7]