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Language code: mni

Technical information about ISO 639 language code mni

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The table below provides technical details for the Manipuri language, designated by the mni code from the ISO 639-2 standard.

Code

mni

Name

Manipuri

Text direction

Left-to-Right

Language varieties
Meitei (Standard/Imphal)Loi (Chakpa)Pangal (Manipuri Muslim)
Related languages
TangkhulThadouPaiteHmar
Key facts
Written in the indigenous Meitei Mayek script that predates the 12th century but was largely replaced by Bengali script until its modern revivalDisplays rich agglutinative morphology, attaching multiple suffixes to a verb stem to mark tense, aspect, mood and politenessContains a historical corpus of court chronicles called the Cheitharol Kumbaba, one of the oldest continuous royal records in South AsiaTone is phonemic in Manipuri, with lexical and grammatical contrasts marked by pitchVocabulary shows significant influence from Indo-Aryan languages such as Sanskrit, Bengali and Hindi along with Tibeto-Burman roots
Sample phrase

ꯍꯦꯜꯂꯣ, ꯅꯥꯡꯕꯨ ꯀꯔꯤ ꯂꯦꯢꯔꯦ?

Character encodings

UTF-8, UTF-16, UTF-32

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The Manipuri language, identified by the code mni, falls under the 'Individual' category in terms of its scope and is classified as 'Living' by its type.

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