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ꯃꯤꯇꯩꯂꯣꯟ ꯉꯥꯡꯕꯒꯤ ꯃꯤꯁꯤꯡ ꯂꯤꯆꯥ ꯱꯸ ꯃꯨꯛ ꯂꯩꯔꯦ [[ꯏꯟꯗꯤꯌꯥ|ꯏꯟꯗꯤꯌꯥꯒꯤ]] ꯁ꯭ꯇꯦꯠ [[ꯃꯅꯤꯄꯨꯔ|ꯃꯅꯤꯄꯨꯔ]]ꯗ ꯫
ꯅꯤꯡꯁꯕ ꯊꯣꯛꯇ꯭ꯔꯕ ꯃꯇꯝꯗꯒꯤ ꯃꯤꯇꯩꯂꯣꯟꯁꯤ ꯃꯤꯇꯩ ꯃꯌꯦꯛꯅꯥ ꯏꯛꯏ ꯫
It is written since immemorial time in the ''Meetei Mayek'' script.<ref name="Meetei Mayek">The ''Meetei Mayek'' script is written left-to-right like English and Bengali and it is an alphasyllabary (a Brahmic abugida with an implicit vowel for the consonant letters, like also Bengali but with a much simpler syllabic layout for consonant clusters and vowel signs); unlike Devanagari, its base letters are usually non-joining for standard styles (making the ''Meetei Mayek'' script more natural for the Manipuri language, also easier to learn and to read than other North-Indic abugidas designed for the transcription of Indo-Aryan languages).<br />
Theꯃꯤꯇꯩ ꯃꯌꯦꯛꯁꯤ ꯑꯣꯏꯗꯒꯤ ꯍꯧꯔꯒ ꯌꯦꯠꯇꯥ ꯂꯣꯏꯁꯤꯟꯂꯤ ꯏꯪꯂꯤꯁ ꯑꯃꯁꯨꯡ ꯕꯦꯡꯒꯥꯂꯤꯒꯨꯝꯅꯥ ꯫The ''Meetei Mayek'' script was first assigned (on June 1, 2009) the standard codes <code>Mtei</code> or <code>337</code> in ISO 15924, where it is also known with the alternate English name ''Meithei'', or just ''Meetei''. It first encoded in Unicode version 5.2 (released on October 1, 2009), and extended with additional base letters, combining vowel signs and virama, and some punctuation marks that were more recently encoded with Unicode version 6.1 (released on January 3, 2012). As of July 2019, no other additions to the script were encoded in the current Unicode version 12.0.<br /> ▼The origins and history of the script however were recently disputed by a few authors, claiming that the script creation was much more recent and that several old written records discovered by archeologists were fakes created in the 1930's, while the British Empire was ruling the former Manipur kingdom, and long before the independant Manipur state joined the new Indian federation. Today however, the Manipur state officially recognizes the Manipuri language, and the Indian federation finally accepted to include the language as an important part of his cultural heritage, along with the scripts that each language traditionally or officially use in regions where the language is recognized, and allowed each member state or territory to protect, develop and support their own local linguistic policy.<br />
▲The ''Meetei Mayek'' script was first assigned (on June 1, 2009) the standard codes <code>Mtei</code> or <code>337</code> in ISO 15924, where it is also known with the alternate English name ''Meithei'', or just ''Meetei''. It first encoded in Unicode version 5.2 (released on October 1, 2009), and extended with additional base letters, combining vowel signs and virama, and some punctuation marks that were more recently encoded with Unicode version 6.1 (released on January 3, 2012). As of July 2019, no other additions to the script were encoded in the current Unicode version 12.0.<br />
The ''Meetei Mayek'' script can be displayed accurately in browsers by installing suitable fonts, such as 'Noto Sans Meetei Mayek', available on GitHub as a [https://github.com/googlefonts/noto-fonts/blob/master/hinted/NotoSansMeeteiMayek-Regular.ttf TrueType hinted font] (this font supports all characters encoded in Unicode versions 5.2 and 6.1).</ref>
ꯃꯤꯇꯩꯂꯣꯟ ꯁꯤ ꯂꯦꯇꯤꯟ ꯃꯌꯦꯛ ꯑꯃꯁꯨꯡ ꯕꯦꯡꯒꯥꯂꯤ ꯃꯌꯦꯛꯅꯥ ꯏꯔꯝꯃꯤ [[ꯕ꯭ꯔꯤꯇꯤꯁ|ꯕ꯭ꯔꯤꯇꯤꯁ]] (꯱꯸꯹꯱ ꯑꯦꯗꯤ) ꯑꯃꯁꯨꯡ ꯍꯤꯟꯗꯨ ꯂꯥꯏꯅꯤꯡ (꯱꯷꯲꯹-꯲꯰꯰꯵) ꯁꯥꯐꯨꯅꯥ ꯃꯔꯝ ꯑꯣꯏꯔꯒ ꯫
Manipuri can also be written in the Latin script as well as the Bengali script, due to influenced of British (1891 AD) and Hinduism (Sankritisation 1729 - 2005 AD).
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