Meitei language

E133169

Sino-Tibetan language Tibeto-Burman language language official language of an Indian state scheduled language of India

Meitei language is the principal Tibeto-Burman language of the Indian state of Manipur, serving as its official and most widely spoken tongue.

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All labels observed (6)

Label	Occurrences
Meitei (Manipuri)	5
Meitei language canonical	5
Meitei	3
Meiteilon	3
Meitei Lon	2
Meiteilon language	1

Statements (50)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Sino-Tibetan language ⓘ Tibeto-Burman language ⓘ language ⓘ official language of an Indian state ⓘ scheduled language of India ⓘ
country	India ⓘ
ethnicLanguageOf	Meitei ethnicity ⓘ
hasAlternativeName	Manipuri ⓘ surface form: Manipuri language Meitei language ⓘ surface form: Meiteilon language
hasDialects	Andro dialect ⓘ Chairel dialect ⓘ Imphal dialect ⓘ Kakching dialect ⓘ
hasOfficialStatus	official language of Manipur ⓘ scheduled language of India ⓘ
hasStandardFormBasedIn	Imphal Valley ⓘ
hasWritingSystem	Bengali script ⓘ Meitei Mayek script ⓘ
ISO639-1Code	mni ⓘ
ISO639-2Code	mni ⓘ
ISO639-3Code	mni ⓘ
isOfficialLanguageIn	Manipur ⓘ
isScheduledLanguageIn	India ⓘ
languageFamily	Sino-Tibetan languages ⓘ surface form: Sino-Tibetan Tibeto-Burman languages ⓘ surface form: Tibeto-Burman
nativeName	Manipuri ⓘ Meitei language self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Meitei Lon Meitei language self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Meiteilon
nativeTo	Meitei people ⓘ
officialLanguageOf	Manipur ⓘ
primaryRegion	Manipur ⓘ
region	Northeast India ⓘ
regulates	none (no single official regulatory body) ⓘ
scriptRevival	Meitei Mayek script revival in late 20th century ⓘ
spokenIn	Assam ⓘ People's Republic of Bangladesh (from East Pakistan) ⓘ surface form: Bangladesh Manipur ⓘ Myanmar ⓘ Nagaland ⓘ Tripura ⓘ neighbouring regions of Northeast India ⓘ
subclassOf	Sino-Tibetan languages ⓘ Tibeto-Burman languages ⓘ
usedAsLinguaFrancaIn	Manipur ⓘ
usedInEducation	schools in Manipur ⓘ
usedInMedia	broadcast media in Manipur ⓘ print media in Manipur ⓘ
writingDirection	left-to-right ⓘ
writingSystemUsedHistorically	Bengali script ⓘ surface form: Bengali-Assamese script Meitei Mayek script ⓘ

How these facts were elicited

The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.

Instruction

You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10.

# Requirements
- If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list.
- If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list.
- Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf".
- Do not get too wordy.
- Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.

Input

Subject: Meitei language
Description of subject: Meitei language is the principal Tibeto-Burman language of the Indian state of Manipur, serving as its official and most widely spoken tongue.

Referenced by (19)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Sino-Tibetan languages → includesLanguage → Meitei language ⓘ

Northeast India → majorLanguage → Meitei language ⓘ

this entity surface form: Meitei (Manipuri)

Manipur → officialLanguage → Meitei language ⓘ

this entity surface form: Meitei

Meitei language → nativeName → Meitei language self-linksurface differs ⓘ

this entity surface form: Meiteilon

Meitei language → nativeName → Meitei language self-linksurface differs ⓘ

this entity surface form: Meitei Lon

Meitei language → hasAlternativeName → Meitei language ⓘ

this entity surface form: Meiteilon language

Meitei people → language → Meitei language ⓘ

Cachar district → hasSpokenLanguage → Meitei language ⓘ

this entity surface form: Meitei (Manipuri)

Imphal → officialLanguage → Meitei language ⓘ

this entity surface form: Meitei (Manipuri)

Tibeto-Burman languages → includesLanguage → Meitei language ⓘ

this entity surface form: Meitei

Tibeto-Burman languages → hasMajorLanguage → Meitei language ⓘ

this entity surface form: Meitei

Eastern Neo-Brahmi script → usedFor → Meitei language ⓘ

Sanamahism → associatedLanguage → Meitei language ⓘ

Manipur Legislative Assembly → languageUsed → Meitei language ⓘ

this entity surface form: Meitei (Manipuri)

Manipuri → alternateName → Meitei language ⓘ

this entity surface form: Meiteilon

Manipuri → alternateName → Meitei language ⓘ

this entity surface form: Meitei Lon

Manipuri → hasNativeName → Meitei language ⓘ

this entity surface form: Meiteilon

Karimganj remained in India as part of Assam → languageSpoken → Meitei language ⓘ

subject surface form: Karimganj

this entity surface form: Meitei (Manipuri)