The Manipuri

Manipuri is a language spoken in Manipur, a small state in the North Eastern India. Sometimes people living in this state are also known as Manipuri. The Manipuri language (or Meiteilon), which is one of the scheduled languages of India and spoken in some parts of Bangladesh and Myanmar. Manipuri uses two scripts; the first is one purely of its own origins called the Meetie Mayek while another one is a borrowed Bengali script.

Manipuri is a Tibeto-Burman (TB) language which is highly agglutinative in nature, mono-syllabic, influenced and enriched by the Indo-Aryan languages of Sanskrit origin and English. The affixes play the most important role in the structure of the language. A clear-cut demarcation between morphology and syntax is not possible in this language. In Manipuri, words are formed in three processes called affixation, derivation and compounding. The majority of the roots found in the language are bound and the affixes are the determining factor of the class of the words in the language.

-Kishorjit Nongmeikapam