Awadhi to Meiteilon Manipuri Translator

Primarily spoken in Manipur (India), with communities in Assam, Tripura, Myanmar, and Bangladesh.

Uses Meitei Mayek script with 27 letters: ꯀ, ꯁ, ꯂ, ꯃ, ꯄ, ꯅ, ꯆ, ꯇ, ꯈ, ꯉ, ꯊ, ꯋ, ꯌ, ꯍ, ꯎ, ꯏ, ꯐ, ꯑ, ꯒ, ꯓ, ꯔ, ꯕ, ꯖ, ꯗ, ꯘ, ꯙ, ꯚ

Features 5 vowel phonemes, aspirated/unaspirated consonant distinctions, and tone patterns that affect meaning in some contexts.

Subject-object-verb (SOV) word order. Agglutinative morphology with complex verbal system and extensive use of particles for grammatical relations.

Contains loanwords from Sanskrit, Bengali, Hindi, English, and other neighboring languages due to historical and cultural contacts.

Part of the Sino-Tibetan language family, specifically the Tibeto-Burman branch, though its exact classification within the family is debated.

Uses traditional Meitei Mayek script, also written in Bengali script historically and Devanagari in some contexts.

Ancient Meitei Mayek script dates back to 11th century, fell into disuse, revived in 20th-21st centuries and now officially promoted.

Approximately 1.8 million speakers worldwide, primarily in Manipur where it's the official language.

Awadhi is primarily spoken in the Awadh region of northern India, mainly in the state of Uttar Pradesh (around Lucknow, Faizabad, and Allahabad), and in parts of Madhya Pradesh and Bihar. It is also spoken by migrant communities in Fiji, Mauritius, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, and South Africa.

Uses the Devanagari script officially. In diaspora communities and historically, it has also been written in Kaithi and Perso-Arabic scripts.

Awadhi features a typical Indo-Aryan phonemic inventory with retroflex and dental contrasts, nasal vowels, and aspirated stops. Vowel nasalization and schwa deletion are phonemic in some contexts.

Follows Subject-Object-Verb (SOV) order. Like other Hindi dialects, Awadhi uses postpositions rather than prepositions, has gendered nouns, and verb conjugations that agree with the subject in gender, number, and politeness level.

Includes many loanwords from Sanskrit, Persian, Arabic, and English due to historical contact, especially during Mughal and British rule.

Part of the Indo-Aryan branch of the Indo-European language family, classified under the Eastern Hindi subgroup.

Primarily written in Devanagari today. Historically also written in Kaithi script. Perso-Arabic script was used in Muslim literary traditions.

Early literary works in Awadhi, like the *Ramcharitmanas* by Tulsidas, were written in Devanagari. During the medieval period, both Kaithi and Perso-Arabic scripts were used. Devanagari has since become dominant.

Approximately 40–45 million native speakers, mainly in India, with additional speakers in the diaspora.