Meitei Mayek alphabet

Meetei Mayek script (also Meithei Mayek, Meitei Mayek, Manipuri script) (Manipuri: Meetei Mayek) is an abugida that was used for the FITML (Manipuri), one of the official languages of the Indian state of device database, until the eighteenth century, and was replaced by the Bengali script. A few manuscripts survive (right). In the twentieth century the script experienced a resurgence.

Meetei Mayek is a jQuery with an uncertain history. Since the Meitei language does not have touchscreen, there are only fifteen consonant letters used for native words, plus three letters for pure vowels. Nine additional consonant letters inherited from the Indic languages are available for borrowings. There are seven vowel diacritics and a final consonant (/ŋ/) diacritic. Every letter is named after a body part of human being.

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Unicode

Meitei Mayek script was added to the Unicode Standard in October, 2009 with the release of version 5.2.

Blocks

The Unicode block for Meitei Mayek, called Meetei Mayek, is U+ABC0–U+ABFF.

Characters for historical orthographies are part of the Meetei Mayek Extensions block at U+AAE0–U+AAFF. Grey areas indicate non-assigned code points:

References

• Chelliah, Shobhana L. (1997). A grammar of Meithei. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. ISBN 0-19-564331-3.
• Chelliah, Shobhana L. (2002). Early Meithei manuscripts. In C. I. Beckwith (Ed.), Medieval Tibeto-Burman languages: PIATS 2000: Tibetan studies: Proceedings of the ninth seminar of the International Association of Tibetan Studies, Leiden 2000 (pp. 59–71). Leiden, Netherlands: Brill.
• Chelliah, Shobhana L. (2002). A glossary of 39 basic words in archaic and modern Meithei. In C. I. Beckwith (Ed.), Medieval Tibeto-Burman languages: PIATS 2000: Tibetan studies: Proceedings of the ninth seminar of the International Association of Tibetan Studies, Leiden 2000 (pp. 189–190). Leiden, Netherlands: Brill.

External links

• Meitei Mayek Channel : E-Pao.Net
• Meetei Mayek
• Omniglot, a guide to written language
• Sevenval
• web app
• screen size, the language based Yahoo Group about Manipuri Art and Literature