However, efforts to revive the meiteimayek are still on. From the fact that the article is named meitei mayek one would assume. This paper presents an implementation of an ocr system for the meetei mayek script. The script has been reinstated recently, and that is why only a few researchers have been accomplished. Manipuri terms organized by topic, such as family or chemistry. In this paper, we use the local texture descriptor and projection histogram feature for handwritten meitei mayek manipuri script recognition. Meitei mayek handwritten character dataset 37 classes. The syllabic meetei mayek script is used for writing the sinotibetan language meeteilon manipuri, which is one of the official languages in the indian state of manipur. Click to see all the free fonts that are available for meetei mayek.
Osage168deseret11symbols59703unified canadian aboriginal syllabics12709latin1517403braille35870cherokee20052unknown script5278 south america symbols 59703 latin 1517403 braille 35870 unknown script 5278. This is the penultimate proposal to encode the meetei mayek script also spelled meitei mayek in the international character encoding standard unicode. This assertion is substantiated with the sacred manuscript under the titled, chothe thangwai pakhangpa written in ancient meitei language and meitei mayek script and also supported by other important manuscripts of manipur like cheitharol khumpaba and moirang ningthourol lambuba etc. The first phase consists of distributing a tabular form and asking people to write the characters five times each. Meanings of these names are indicated with the letters below. Meetei mayek is the script which was used to write manipuri till the 18th century.
However, later the eastern nagari or bengali script adopted for scripting manipuri. The different variations of the local binary pattern lbp namely, uniform lbp ulbp, improved lbp ilbp, centersymmetric lbp cslbp account for local texture descriptors. Categories with terms derived from manipuri in various specific languages. Even though the model is a simple rule base approached but to our surprise the algorithm proved to come up with an accuracy of 86. Recognition of handwritten numerals of manipuri script. Although the spread of the meitei mayek among the population is thus still very limited, the visual impression one gets when visiting imphal, the capital of manipur, is very di erent. Manipuri or meitei is the predominant language and linguafranca in the himalayan state of manipur, in northeastern india. A set of characters to represent historical orthographies was published later, in unicode 6. Later local organizations and meitei scholars put an effort in bringing back and adopting meitei mayek, thereby trying to replace bengali script as the. Ancient manipuri script meithei mayek the script was used to write the meithei manipuri from about the 11th century until the 18th century. Comments posted by users in this discussion thread and other parts of this site are opinions of the. Part of speech pos tagging of the bengali script manipuri text is performed using conditional random field crf which is then followed by the transliteration to meitei mayek. These features along with the projection histogram, separately and.
Before anybody could realize the meitei mayek script now prevalently taught in all schools and colleges in the state has caused a decisive schism apart from a headache peculiar to the meitei mayek issue so much alive in manipur but not really amounting to anything very important in terms of its educational and cognitive worth that could be discussed although such a discussion is now. Meitei mayek is the original script and was used until 18th century. This means, you can type documents in meetei mayek using msword, or any windows word processor of your choice create webpages in meetei mayek. Media in category meitei script the following 10 files are in this category, out of 10 total. The script has been newly reintroduced and there is a growing set of documents currently available in this script. National peoples congress of china, the law of national allpurpose language and character in the peoples republic of china. Pangal topic the pangals1, also pronounced as pangans are the minority ethnic group of people reside in northeast india manipur, assam, tripura and nagaland and also found in bangladesh. Local texture descriptors and projection histogram based. Information about the meitei mayek script may be available at appendix. Meeteimayek is the script which was used to write manipuri till the 18th century. The meitei script or meetei mayek, is an abugida used for the meitei language, one of the official languages of the indian state of manipur. Part of speech pos tagging of the bengali script manipuri text is performed using conditional random field crf which is.
Manipuri dictionary english to manipuri manipuri to english. International journal on natural language computing. The collection of data samples was carried out in two phases. Although meitei mayek has become a unicode 5 standard pdf after the proposal for encoding the script pdf at the uc berkeley script encoding initiative, it hasnt been included in the default font distribution as such you cannot use it. Recognition of handwritten meitei mayek script based on texture feature.
The oldest extant version was copied in the early 19th century, under jai singh, the puppet king installed after the burmese invasion, as the former copy was no more available. Akin to an official language, an official script is much rarer. The ctp sacred manuscript in ancient meitei mayek or script 11. Handwritten manipuri meeteimayek classification using.
I am somewhat frustrated about the name of the mmscript. 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. Meeteimayek is the script which was used to write meeteilon manipuri till the 18th century. Oct 28, 2019 the dataset consists of 60285 character image files which has been randomly divided into 54239 90% images as training set 6046 10% images as test set. Kings ear rings, iron plate, iron rods, forceps 2 14. Manipuri transliteration from bengali script to meitei mayek. The current script is the construction of the ancient meitei mayek script. Bengali script was introduced in between 1709 and the middle of 20th century. The script history of meetei mayek 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. Bihari had to learn the ancient script of meitei mayek to make this translation, a major cheithafol that took him 17 years to finish. Meitei had its original script named meiteimayek which was in use up to the 18th century. After the font is installed, reload this page after restarting your browser you should be able to see something written in meetei mayek script, in the box below. Bringing the extraterrestrial into his suburban california house, elliott introduces e. It is a tonal language, written with the bengali script.
An ocr system for the meetei mayek script request pdf. Bihari had to learn the ancient script of meitei mayek to make this translation, a major project that took him 17 years to finish. Cheitharol kumbaba pdf amaryl lids to download pdf you. These features along with the projection histogram, separately and combined. An official script is a writing system that is specifically designated to be official in the constitutions or other applicable laws of countries, states, and other jurisdictions. Manipuri dictionary is a bilingual, translates any word from english to manipuri or manipuri to english. Recent research has resurrected this script, and it is now being given its due place. Meitei mayekfontslightfonts downloadfont classification. Proposal for encoding the meitei mayek script in the bmp. It will open, showing the font ch aracters, and there will be an install button on lower right corner. Media in category meitei language the following 3 files are in this category, out of 3 total. This paper reports recognition of complete character set of meitei mayek script and the issues and challenges faced. This is needed to read meitei mayek news as provided by hueiyen lanpao.
Aug 29, 20 this assertion is substantiated with the sacred manuscript under the titled, chothe thangwai pakhangpa written in ancient meitei language and meitei mayek script and also supported by other important manuscripts of manipur like cheitharol khumpaba and moirang ningthourol lambuba etc. The dataset consists of 60285 character image files which has been randomly divided into 54239 90% images as training set 6046 10% images as test set. In various places at wiktionary, the meitei mayek script is represented by the code mtei. Please provide us the feedback and ratings to keep us supported on playstore and serve you better. Free englishmanipuri dictionary and translator freelang. As, in these languages, use of script often has cultural. The main, modern repertoire was published in unicode standard version 5. Royal chronicle of manipur a sample of a letter in bengali script sent to the viceroy and governor general of india by maharaj soorchandra in june, 1889. It was used until the 18th century, when it was replaced by the bengali alphabet.
The script has been in active use for the last decade. A transliteration of crf based manipuri pos tagging. The very nature of resource constraint for the meitei script comparing to bengali script manipuri compels us to think of transliteration to the output of mwe identification as. Transliteration of crf based multiword expression mwe in. Approved meitei meetei mayek pdf 298 kb as per manipur govt gazette no 33 april 22, 1980 courtesy. Meitei mayek are the scales tipped now imphal times. Bengali script was adopted to write the language and is being used till date. In the 20th century, the script experienced a resurgence, and is now used again. A neural network based handwritten meetei mayek alphabet optical character recognition system.
A comparative study of meetei mayek from the inscribed letterform to the digital typeface inscribed letterforms manuscript letterforms signpainting letterforms letterpress letterforms digital letterforms. Before anybody could realize the meitei mayek script now prevalently taught in all schools and colleges in the state has caused a decisive schism apart from a headache peculiar to the meitei mayek issue so much alive in manipur but not really amounting to anything very important in terms of its educ. Installing eeyek unicode font in linux installing meetei mayek font in ubuntu is the easiest. Everson, michael 20060920, preliminary proposal for encoding the meithei mayek script in the bmp l207256 singh, l. Cheitharol kumbaba, also spelled cheitharon kumpapa, is the court chronicle of the kings of manipur. Manipuri has no descendants or varieties listed in wiktionarys language data modules.
Meetei mayek script sample, 20000809 l201457 khumancha, michael 20011107, letter from michael khumancha to utc. It is the main source for the list of premodern kings of manipur, tracing the genealogy of the ruling ningthouja. The meithei script, meetei mayek, is an abugida that was used for the meitei language manipuri, one of the official languages of the indian state of manipur, until the eighteenth century, when it was replaced by the bengali script. In proceedings of the ieee international conference on computational intelligence and computing research. Since 2000, a prominent armed group has banned the screening of hindi films in manipur claiming that these films are a form of cultural imperialism. After a gentle alien becomes stranded on earth, the being is discovered and befriended by a young boy named elliott. Meetei mayek test for unicode support in web browsers. A model and algorithm is being designed for transliterating manipuri from bengali script to meitei mayek meitei script. Mar 25, 2012 the script has been in active use for the last decade. It is used primarily where an official language is in practice written with two or more scripts. Interestingly, the letters in meetei mayek are named after parts of human body. Sanasam inunganbi and prakash choudhary, nit manipur, india.
Manipuri transliteration from bengali script to meitei. Xheitharol chandra entered the arena, donning the garland and japa he was instructed to in the vision, in the ensuing fight, cheihtarol spectators noted that the elephant seemed to recoil as if struck by a ghost. Manipuri terms organized by topic, such as family or chemistry category. Download download hueiyen lanpao meitei mayek font. Sounds which the letters denote are indicated within brackets. After talking to several shop owners the reason for this became obvious.
The king embraced vaishnavism, took the name garibnawaz and made vaishnavism the state religion. Manipuri dictionary english to manipuri manipuri to. The script consists of 27 alphabets 18 original alphabets called eeyek eepee and 9 additional letters. Osage168deseret11symbols59703unified canadian aboriginal syllabics12709latin1517403braille35870cherokee20052unknown script 5278 south america symbols 59703 latin 1517403 braille 35870 unknown script 5278.