13 Facts About Meitei language

Speakers of Meitei language are known as "Kathe" by the Burmese people, "Moglie" or "Mekhlee" by the people of Cachar, Assam and "Cassay" by the Shan people and the other people living in the east of the Ningthee River (or Khyendwen River).

Meitei language has been recognised by the Indian Union and was included in the list of scheduled languages (included in the 8th schedule by the 71st amendment of the constitution in 1992).

In modern era, several Meitei language movements were advocated and upheld by people for the development of Meitei language in diverse critical, discriminative and unfavorable circumstances and situations, including the linguistic purism movement, scheduled language movement, classical language movement, associate official language movement, among many others.

Chelliah notes that the Meitei language spelling has replaced the earlier Meithei spelling.

Meitei language proper is considered to be the standard variety—and is viewed as more dynamic than the other two dialects.

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Meitei language is proposed to be granted the elite status of "Classical Languages of India".

Meitei language is an SOV language, though topics can be fronted.

Meitei language has a dissimilatory process similar to Grassmann's law found in Ancient Greek and Sanskrit, though occurring on the second aspirate.

Meitei language has its own script, which was used until the 18th century.

Many Meitei language documents were destroyed at the beginning of the 18th century during the reign of Hindu converted King Pamheiba, under the instigation of the Bengali Hindu missionary, Shantidas Gosai.

The current Meitei language alphabet is a reconstruction of the ancient Meitei language script.

Culture involved with the Meitei language is rooted deeply with pride and tradition based on having respect to the community elders.

The history behind the Meitei language itself comes primarily from the ancient period of northeastern India.