Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Meitei grammar" in Simple English language version.
Manipuri clearly has the genetic features of the Tibeto-Burman group. These include three positional occurrences of the velar nasals, widespread stem homophony, semantic bleaching of verbs, duplication or elaboration, final particles, the predominance of aspect rather than tense, a lack of gender marking verb-final word order, and agglutinative verb morphology, with extensive suffixation and more limited prefixation.
