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Manipuri Alphabet (Bangla)

The letters and characters of Manipuri written in the Bangla script, in order — every standard character with its name and codepoint, the additional and punctuation sets, and exactly how many fonts include them. About 1,568,600 people read or write it across 2 countries.

Manipuri is also written in: (Meitei Mayek)

18Fonts cover the standard set
59Standard characters
1,568,600People
2Countries

Standard characters

The minimal set of characters required for Manipuri — the language's alphabet, in its traditional order. Tap a character to copy it; each name opens the full character page.

Additional Characters

Used for foreign words, names and technical terms, and older forms of the language.

Punctuation characters

The marks used to separate sentences and to clarify meaning.

-U+002D‐U+2010‑U+2011–U+2013—U+2014,U+002C;U+003B:U+003A!U+0021?U+003F.U+002E…U+2026'U+0027‘U+2018’U+2019"U+0022“U+201C”U+201D(U+0028)U+0029[U+005B]U+005D§U+00A7@U+0040*U+002A/U+002F&U+0026#U+0023†U+2020‡U+2021′U+2032″U+2033

Where Manipuri (Bangla) is read

Countries shaded by the share of their population that reads or writes Manipuri in the Bangla script. The map is zoomed to the region where at least 1% of a country's people read it; neighbouring countries are shown unshaded for context.

50% or more of the country 10–50% 1–10% under 1% not listed for this language

Estimated readers — share of each country's population (CLDR).

CountryEstimated readersShare of population
India 1,550,043 0.11%
Bangladesh 18,557 0.01%

Manipuri (Bangla) — facts

Font coverage 18 of 137,179 fonts include every one of the 59 standard characters; 9 include the standard and additional sets together. Counts are exact for the snapshot of 21 October 2026.
Script Bengali
Unicode blocks Basic Latin, Latin-1 Supplement, Bengali, General Punctuation
People About 1,568,600 people read or write Manipuri in the Bangla script — mostly in India, Bangladesh.
Also written in Manipuri (Meitei Mayek)

Data: Unicode CLDR exemplar characters (CLDR 48.2.0) and CLDR territory population data. Font counts: snapshot of 21 October 2026.