Manipuri/Meitei customary writing system

[Martin J. Dürst via Unicode]

Hello Markus,

On 2019/10/04 01:53, Markus Scherer via Unicode wrote:
> Dear Unicoders,
> 
> Is Manipuri/Meitei customarily written in Bangla/Bengali script or
> in Meitei script?
> 
> I am looking at
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meitei_language#Writing_systems which seems
> to describe writing practice in transition, and I can't quite tell where it
> stands.
> 
> Is the use of the Meitei script aspirational or customary?
> Which script is being used for major newspapers, popular books, and video
> captions?

This may give you some more information:
https://www.atypi.org/conferences/tokyo-2019/programme/activity?a=906https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8XxVZkfUkk

It's a recent talk at ATypI in Tokyo (sponsored by Google, among others).

Regards,   Martin.