Meetei Mayek

Meetei-Mayek is the script which was used to write Meeteilon (Manipuri) till the 18th century. The script nearly became extinct as a result of a mass burning of all books in Meeteilon ordered by Ningthau Pamheiba who ruled Manipur in the 18th century. The main person behind this atrocity was Shantidas Gosain who had come to Manipur to spread Vaishnavism, on whose instigation the king gave the order. The king embraced Vaishnavism, took the name Garibnawaz and made Vaishnavism the state religion. Subsequently, Bengali script was adopted to write the language and is being used till date. Recent research has resurrected this script, and it is now being given its due place.

A page of the original manuscript Cheitharol Kumbaba (A Royal Chronicle of Manipur).
(Courtesy: N. Khelchandra Singh)

We introduce the Meetei Mayek TrueType Font, which allows you to do everything you are used to doing in English, in the Meetei Mayek script! This means, you can

Type documents in Meetei Mayek using MS-Word, or any Windows word processor of your choice
Create WebPages in Meetei Mayek
Send and Receive Emails in Meetei Mayek using any email software of your choice
Do desktop publishing in Meetei Mayek

and much more. This font is free!
(because some of the best things in life are free) :-)

The main idea behind creating this font is to make Meetei Mayek popular, by giving everybody a simple way to use it on the computer, without having to learn and use any new software. This font is also intended to introduce Meetei Mayek into the world of internet and World Wide Web, by paving a way for creating Web pages and exchanging emails in Meetei Mayek.

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You can see Meetei Mayek on this page because it is put as images, and not text. In normal usage, the matter has to be displayed as text. For viewing Meetei Mayek text in webpages, you need to download and install the Meetei Mayek font.

SITES OF INTEREST
E-PAO: News about Manipur
The Story of Manipur
The Manipur Page
North-East News Agency
Manipur Update
Manipur Homepage
The Manipur Page

Have you got the Meetei Mayek font installed? Enjoy Manipuri in the original script, at the following sites:

(Prose and Poetry)

(Manipuri for Travellers)

If you create a page using the Meetei Mayek font, do tell us. We will give it a link here.

Meetei Mayek True-Type font.
Copyright (C) 2000 Pravabati Chingangbam and Tabish
This font is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation.

The Meetei Mayek Font, and this Site created by
Pravabati Chingangbam and Tabish
Send your comments to: pravabati

gmail.com

Meetei Mayek font was created using the Font Creator Program