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Imphal dialect

Imphal dialect, also known as Standard Imphal dialect, or Meitei Proper, or Standard Meiteilon, or Standard Manipuri, is the standard dialect of Meitei language, officially known as Manipuri language. It is natively used in Imphal, the capital city of Manipur state, and is used in administration, education, media, literature, widely across the state and abroad. According to the reports of the Linguistic Survey of India, the Imphal dialect is the basis of the "literary language" of Manipur and its people. Unlike other Meitei regional dialects in the outskirts of Imphal, it is heavily influenced by Sanskrit, Bengali and Hindi languages. Imphal dialect has six vowels, i.e. /ə/, /e/, /i/, /o/, /u/ and /a/, some diphthongs and monophthongs. Out of six vowels, the most frequently used vowel is /a/ in Imphal dialect. The Imphal dialect marginally permits the interrogative to be suffixed to the bare verb stem for some verbs. While forms such as *čára from čá 'eat' and čátra from čát 'go' are clearly ungrammatical, speakers are ambivalent about forms like setra.

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• ▸Alexander Cummings (territorial governor)
• ▸Capture of Stuff Redoubt
• ▸Andrew B. Turnbull

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