LANGUAGE IN INDIA

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Volume 14:4 April 2014
ISSN 1930-2940

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Phonological System of Medieval Manipuri

Takhellambam Debachand Singh


Abstract

Manipuri is one of the oldest languages of Tibeto-Burman Languages family, spoken in Manipur, a north-eastern state of India. Manipuri has a long history of its own of about 2000 years old history. Manipuri was written in its own script, Meetei Mayek. But it was replaced by Bengali script in the late 19th and early part of 20th century. Oldest record of the written document in Manipuri is traced back as early as 14th century. But during the reign of King Garibniwaz, most of the written documents were burnt down publicly. Then some of the oldest books in Manipuri were rewritten during his period. So while trying to study the historical reconstruction of Manipuri, we face a lot of problems. A few scholars already made attempt to study the history of Manipuri. Still nobody has written a comprehensive history of Manipuri. In this paper I have tried to study the phonological structure of Manipuri during the period of King Garibniwaz, so called medieval period in the history of Manipuri.

Conversion to Hinduism

During the reign of King Garibniwaz, an important historical episode took place. Conversion to Hinduism and burning down of Manipuri manuscripts took place. During the same period Hindu-religion based art and literature were encouraged. Books related to new state religion were written in this period, mostly translated from Sanskrit and Bengali. These incidents influenced a lot of people in Manipur and these also influenced Manipuri language.


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Takhellambam Debachand Singh, M.A., NET
Research Scholar, Manipur University
Akham Mayai Leikai
P. O. Lamsang Bazar
Imphal – 795146
Manipur
India
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