![]() ![]() The importance of the number of letters in the alphabet is to enable the language to be articulated with perfect speech sounds with a system of graphic symbols that can be used to convey all thoughts. 33, 1980), regardless of what numbers they were originally. It was only right that amidst the controversy about the number of letters in the Meitei mayek or the Manipuri alphabet, the Government of Manipur in 1980, decided to accept 27 as the preferred number of letters (Manipur Gazette, No. Remember, what you think of yourself - Meiteis, Meiteilon and Meitei mayek is more important than what others think of you and them. The brain-washing was intended to rid Meiteis of their tribalism and bring them to mainstream Hinduism. Mahabharata itself is regarded as fiction my many including myself. The days of some of our mythology-befuddled forefathers (my father never believed it) who were drip-fed the idea that Meiteis are the descendents of Arujan of Mahabhrata is long gone. The time has come for every self-respecting young Meitei person to put out the spark ignited by some foreigners, which has now become a fire spreading across middle-aged Meitei intelligentsias that, we ourselves, our language and our alphabet are borrowed from somewhere else. This is not an article about the boring premise of a series of overlapping stories about who the Meiteis are - migrants what language is Meiteilon - Tibeto-Burman and where Meitei mayek is borrowed from. Meitei mayek or Manipuri alphabet : The origin of alphabet and development of writing ![]()
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