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has a spelling in true characters that reads ꯃꯤꯇꯧ ꯃꯌꯦꯛ or Mithou Mayek. So really, the same page claims two different spellings! To see the difference between the EI and OU matras, concentrate on the lower “tail”: For EI it's straight and for OU its bent — at least that if what the unicode both
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I am somewhat frustrated about the name of the MM-script. From the fact that the article is named Meitei Mayek one would assume ꯃꯩꯇꯩ ꯃꯌꯦꯛ; but the article also says that the script in Manipuri language is called Meetei Mayek, which would translate into ꯃꯤꯇꯩ ꯃꯌꯦꯛ (Mitei Mayek in a reasonable
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It seems to me what is really meant is '18 characters', as Meitei Mayek originally consisted of 18 characters. We might give the source the benefit of the doubt, and consider the mistake to be a matter of bad translation or limited proficiency of English, rather than of actual incompetence.
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owing to new introduction of new sounds and words containing V,G,R,J,etc But despite the 18 letters half sound letters and certain suffix letters to be added to the main alphabets while writing spelling of words existed
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http://www.imphal.cjb.net/imProcessor.asp?id=Meetei_Mayek_Poems&Fld=.miscellany9default3&idFld=Miscellany&idsubFld=Poems&subFld=.miscellany9poem9default3&ShowPage=.miscellany9poem9mmPoem9default3
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I have added lonsum letters and this are letters that usually carry half sound of the original letter and they are generally used as suffix letters to describe incomplete sound of the letter(Mapung mayek)
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Of course, a balance needs to be struck between rejecting pseudoscience on the one hand, and adopting a Eurocentric view of what constitutes legitimate scholarship on the other.
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The problem is that the link is in ==External links==. So then that means the link should be accurate. So, DOES Meitei Mayek have 18 alphabets? Or is it just one abugida?
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It's really unlikely that a font designer spells the name of the script he's designing fonts for wrongly, right? There is more evidence for the Mitou Mayek spelling on
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According to the very few Puyas that survived, such as, Wakoklon Thilel Salai Singkak, Wakoklol Thilel Salai Amailon, Meetei Mayek comprised of 18 alphabets.
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Google searches for both spellings yield exactly no results (except my own pages, which are just guessed and cannot be used to back any theories).
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That webpage has a PNG banner with appears to spell the name as Mitei Mayek. However, the font download page
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These letters are very important while writing any spelling using Meetei Mayek or Meetei alphabets.
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is the spelling the user community asked us to use when we were encoding the script; --
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interested in improving the encyclopaedic coverage and content of articles relating to
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will be written without any problem using only original or old Meetei mayek as
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on Knowledge (XXG). If you would like to help out, you are welcome to drop by
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If you would like me to provide more information on the talk page, contact
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reference chart and also the font available on that very website suggest.
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consist of 18 letters originally but some letters were added later on by
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Below is a list of links that were found on the main page:
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describes Meitei Mayek script as having "18 alphabets":
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