User:Haoreima/Modern Meitei

Modern Meitei (Anouba Meiteilon), also known as Modern Manipuri or Contemporary Manipuri (Anouba Manipuri), is a form of Meitei language, spoken in the modern era, including its official standardized form. The end of the pre-modern Meitei period and the beginning of Modern Meitei is often symbolically assigned to the massive religious conversion of Meitei people to Hinduism in Manipur in between 17th and 18th century CE, which marks a notable linguistic boundary, with the entry of many characteristic features of other linguistic cultures, specifically from Sanskrit and Bengali.

Still in present times, the language exists in a situation of diglossia, with modern variant, for official and daily activities, co-existing side by side with its archaic linguistic form, for specific-cultural activities, in Meitei society.