Your Digital Guide to Meitei Heritage
Explore Meitei surnames (Yumnak), identify the Seven Clans (Salai Taret), and instantly verify traditional marriage compatibility right from the palm of your hand.
Input any two surnames for immediate compatibility status.
Extensive searchable directory mapped to the 7 Salai.
No login required, no tracking, works smoothly on device.
Sharpen your knowledge of clan ancestors, totems, and history.
In an effort to digitally preserve and pass down the rich cultural traditions of Manipur, we built the Yek Salai application. Designed as an accessible reference, this app helps families, scholars, and youth navigate the ancestral kinship system with ease and precision.
Clean, Intuitive & Purpose-Built Design
From the moment you launch the application, you are greeted with a minimalist interface focused strictly on utility. We deliberately eliminated cluttered menus and distracting feeds so you can find ancestral lineages within seconds.
Quick access buttons allow you to jump straight into surname search, compatibility calculation, or community quizzes without navigating confusing sub-pages.
Instant Marriage Compatibility Checker
The core innovation of the Yek Salai app is its automated matrimonial rules engine. Selecting bride and groom surnames yields an instant assessment based on traditional exogamy (Yekthoknaba) and fraternal clan (Shairuk Tinnaba) guidelines:
- ALLOWED Unions between distinct, non-prohibited Salai lines.
- FORBIDDEN Same-clan lineages sharing patrilineal ancestry (Yekthoknaba).
- CONDITIONAL Sub-lineages where generational rules (Shairuk Tinnaba) apply.
The engine gracefully handles multi-clan surnames, providing a transparent breakdown of every permutation.
Comprehensive Search & Clan Directory
Explore the seven clans—Mangang, Luwang, Khuman, Angom, Moirang, Chenglei, and Khaba-Nganba. Search instantly through over 1,221+ verified Meitei surnames (Sagei/Yumnak) with smart auto-filtering.
You can browse alphabetically or filter directly by individual clan to examine all associated families and recent queries are conveniently cached locally on your device for rapid offline reference.
Learn, Test & Contribute
The app is an educational companion as much as a tool. Test your understanding of Manipuri history with interactive quizzes and explore frequently asked questions detailing clan cosmologies, symbols, and colors.
We are committed to crowdsourced accuracy: if you encounter an unlisted surname or dialect variation, you can submit suggestions directly to the editorial team from within the app.
