User talk:Irengbam

Meiteilon (Manipuri) which some liguists still call Meitheis(meaning people who speak Meiteilon) is NOT a Tibeto-Burman language at all. It has only affinity with to TB languages. George Grierson, sitting in his office in Calcutta without ant reliable data, erroneously grouped it in the TB language 110 years ago. Now Matisoff and others have rightly declassified it as a non-TB language. As early as 1908, C Hodson in The Meitheis,1975 edition, p155, wrote: "the definite classification of the Meithei language [spoken by the Poireiton in the 7th century CE] as belonging to thr Tibeto-Burman group while occupying and a separate group is a bald statement of the conclusions which are advanced in the Report of The Liguistic Suyrvey of India." Meitei language or Meitei lon or Meiteilon is a language isolate with its equally unique Meitei Mayek - Meitei Alphabet. It has no common ancestry with any other language.

Isn't linguistically incorrect to write Meiteilon "as TB language, not yet classified". Meitei langyuage is a self-evolved language.