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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{Infobox language<br />
| name = Ancient Meitei<br />
| nativename =ꯑꯂꯤꯄ ꯃꯤꯇꯩꯂꯣꯟ <br />
| altname = Old Manipuri or Archaic Meetei<br />
| image = Meithei_manuscript,_a_Indian_language.jpg<br />
| region = [[Ancient Manipur]]<br />
| ethnicity = [[Meitei ethnicity]]<br />
| speakers = Extinct<br />
| date = <br />
| ref = e18<br />
| familycolor = Sino-Tibetan<br />
| script = [[Meitei script]]<ref>{{cite book| last = Primrose| first = Arthur John| title = A Manipuri Grammar, Vocabulary, and Phrase Book: To which are Added Some Manipuri Proverbs and Specimens of Manipuri Correspondence| url = https://books.google.com/?id=0L3M1OmJhesC&pg=PA1| year = 1888| publisher = Assam Secretariat Press| isbn = | page = 1 }}</ref><br />
| nation = [[Ancient Manipur]] ([[Ancient Kangleipak]]) <br />
| iso2 = <br />
| iso3 = omp<br />
| lc2 = omp<br />
| ld2 = Old Manipuri<br />
| linglist = omp<br />
| lingname = Old Manipuri<br />
| glotto = <br />
| glottorefname = <br />
| extinct = Yes<br />
| era = [[Ancient Manipur]]<br />
}}<br />
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'''Ancient Meitei''' ({{lang-omp|ꯑꯂꯤꯄ ꯃꯤꯇꯩꯂꯣꯟ}}; {{lang-mni|ꯑꯔꯤꯕ ꯃꯩꯇꯩꯂꯣꯟ}}) or '''Old Manipuri''' ({{lang-mni|ꯑꯔꯤꯕ ꯃꯅꯤꯄꯨꯔꯤ ꯂꯣꯟ}}) was the early form of the present day [[Meitei language]] ([[Manipuri language]]) and was the [[national language]] of [[Ancient Manipur]].<ref>http://www.language-archives.org/language/omp</ref><ref>https://iso639-3.sil.org/code/omp</ref><ref>http://multitree.org/codes/omp</ref><br />
The language is as old as the reign of Emperor ''"Tangja Leela Pakhangba"'' in [[Ancient Manipur]], right from 1445 BC,<ref>https://themanipurpage.tripod.com/history/meiteikings.html</ref><ref name=":0">{{Cite web|last=KanglaOnline|title=Manipuri is a classical language {{!}} KanglaOnline|url=http://kanglaonline.com/2017/04/manipuri-is-a-classical-language/|access-date=2021-04-19|language=en-US}}</ref> and was spoken upto the beginning of the [[Medieval Manipur]].<ref name=":0" /><br />
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==Gallery==<br />
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File:Wakching.jpg<br />
File:A picture of Puya(Meitei text).jpg<br />
File:A_picture_of_pages_of_Wakoklon_Puya.jpg<br />
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==General References==<br />
* Khelchandra Ningthoukhongjam Singh, ''History Of Old Manipuri Literature'' https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.466183<br />
* Iboyaima Laithangbam, ''Banished Manipuri script stages a comeback'', September 23, 2017 https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/other-states/banished-manipuri-script-stages-a-comeback/article19743482.ece<br />
==References==<br />
{{Reflist}}<br />
[[Category:Languages]]<br />
[[Category:History]]<br />
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