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ꯃꯤꯇꯩꯂꯣꯟ

Meitei
  • Global speakers: 1,775,000
  • Glottocode: mani1292
  • ISO 639-3: mni
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The North American Manipur Association was founded in Brooklyn in 1992 and today represents several hundred people living scattered across the city and the country, but originally from the state of Manipur in northeast India and predominantly speaking Meitei, the largest language there. Among them was Jupiter Yambem, who was born in Manipur but came to the United States at the age of 21 and was working at Windows on the World on September 11, 2001—he died in the World Trade Center attack.
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