Meitei language Quotes
A curated collection of the best quotes about Meitei language.
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“The Meithei language is rich in its history and literature unlike the Nagas or Mizos.”
“Wikipedia: Meitei language”
“Wikibooks: Meitei language”
“Wikivoyage: Meitei language”
“My language is called poor,
Because of ignorance,
Meitei poet will come.
("Meetei Kavi")”
“A language poor they call it,
By those who are ignorant.
Doubt not, the Meetei poet is coming.”
“Wikicommons: Meitei language”
“The beginning of this old Manipuri literature (as in the case of Newari) may go back to 1500 years, or even 2000 years, from now.”
“Manipuri is not a new language like Kokborok and has a rich literary tradition and a change of script will not be easy to adjust to.”
“In this family, Manipuri was perhaps the only language which grew under a highly cultured royal patronage and also which had a long written literature.”
“The Meitei language or Meiteilon is much more developed and is widely believed to have had its indigenous script which is now sought to be rediscovered.”
“The suppression of Meitei language is also a cause for the rise of Meitei nationalism, which PLA represents. It is opposed to the use of the Bengali script.”
“This language is very rich in morphology and also highly agglutinative in nature. Currently, the language is represented using Bengali script as well as Meetei Mayek.”
“Among the various Tibeto-Burman languages, the most important, and in literature certainly of much greater importance than Newari, is the Meitei or Manipuri language.”
“Meitei, the state language of Manipur, shows significant points of contact with Kachin as well as with Kuki-Naga, though the affinities are prominently with the latter.”
“Thadou, Kom, Chiru, Gangte, Lamgang, Anal and Paite are spoken by dwindling numbers of speakers in Manipur, where these communities are being linguistically assimilated to the Meithei speaking majority.”
“Even the Nagas residing in the Meitei dominated Manipur converse in such a kaleidoscopic variety of languages and dialects that they resort to the Manipuri language as the standard medium of communication.”
“This is a common feature of the Manipuri language - a whole sequence of events can be encoded in a single word. But translating the crispness into English while maintaining the rhythm of the dialogue was not easy.”
“The greatness of Manipuri is thus a reflection of the height of civilisation of its speakers. ... As a speech of a well advanced people, Manipuri has already made notable contributions to the Indian culture and literature.”