Manipuri/Meitei customary writing system

[Richard Wordingham via Unicode]

On Fri, 4 Oct 2019 07:12:59 +0000
Martin J. Dürst via Unicode <unicode at unicode.org> wrote:

> On 2019/10/04 15:35, Martin J. Dürst via Unicode wrote:
> > 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=906  
> 
> Sorry, this should have been two separate URIs (about the same talk).
> 
> > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8XxVZkfUkk
> > 
> > It's a recent talk at ATypI in Tokyo (sponsored by Google, among
> > others).

So newspaper sales tell us that the Bengali script is still the *usual*
script for the language.  Is that a different question to
what the 'customary' script is?

Richard.