{"id":423,"date":"2011-04-28T21:27:20","date_gmt":"2011-04-29T04:27:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glyphs.webfoot.com\/blog\/?p=423"},"modified":"2018-06-30T14:10:29","modified_gmt":"2018-06-30T21:10:29","slug":"meitei-mayek-1100-ad-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/glyphs.webfoot.com\/blog\/2011\/04\/28\/meitei-mayek-1100-ad-india\/","title":{"rendered":"Meitei Mayek — 1100 AD, India"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Meitei Mayek “Sa”<\/p><\/div>\n

The Meitei Mayek script — also sometimes called Meithei Mayek, Meitei Mayek, or Manipuri — looks very different from the the Bengali\/Assamese script that is now used in Manipur and its Indian\/Bangladeshi neighbours.\u00a0 It also looks very different from the script used in Mayanmar to the east.<\/p>\n

Nobody is really sure how old it is or where it came from (although it is clearly Brahmi<\/a>-derived).\u00a0 It turns out that the Hindus were almost as good as the Spanish conquistadors at erasing a script: when Manipur became Hindu in 1729 AD, almost all of the written works in Meitei Mayek were destroyed.\u00a0 It was revived in the 20th century, although in a simplified form.<\/p>\n

Spoken Meitei has comparatively few sounds, so Meitei Mayek has quite a small number of characters.\u00a0 It is unlike most Indic writing systems in several respects:<\/p>\n