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Maithili
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Countries

Countries

India, Nepal

Total No. Of Countries

2
Rank: 13 (Overall)
0 46
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National Language

India, Nepal

Second Language

Nepal

Speaking Continents

Asia

Minority Language

Not spoken in any of the countries

Regulated By

-

Interesting Facts

  • Earlier, Maithili language was considered as the dialect of Hindi and Bengali, however in the year 2003 Maithili achieved an independent language status in India.
  • Maithili has rich literature.

Similar To

Bhojpuri Language

Derived From

-

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

47
Rank: 27 (Overall)
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

8
Rank: 5 (Overall)
0 32
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How Many Consonants

22
Rank: 12 (Overall)
9 60
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Scripts

Devanagari

Writing Direction

-

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

6
Rank: 5 (Overall)
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

44 weeks
Rank: 17 (Overall)
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

pranam

Thank You

dhanyabad

How Are You?

Aahan kehan chhi ?

Good Night

Śubharātri

Good Evening

shubh sandhya

Good Afternoon

dopahar ke bad namaskar

Good Morning

Suprabhaat

Please

kripaya

Sorry

maf karai

Bye

Alavidā

I Love You

hawm ahāṃ se prem karechi

Excuse Me

kripaya

Dialects

Dialect 1

Tharuwat

Where They Speak

Nepal

How Many People Speak

35,000,000.00
Rank: 21 (Overall)
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Madhubani

Where They Speak

North India

How Many People Speak

35,000,000.00
Rank: 19 (Overall)
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Khortha

Where They Speak

Deoghar, France

How Many People Speak

35,000,000.00
Rank: 17 (Overall)
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

15
Rank: 14 (Overall)
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

32.00 million
Rank: 35 (Overall)
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.41 %
Rank: 35 (Overall)
0 89
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Native Speakers

27.00 million
Rank: 30 (Overall)
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

2.80 million
Rank: 55 (Overall)
0.01 400
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Native Name

मैथिली (mɛtʰilī)

Alternative Names

Apabhramsa, Bihari, Maitili, Maitli, Methli, Tirahutia, Tirhuti, Tirhutia

French Name

maithili

German Name

Maithili

Pronunciation

[ˈmaitʰili]

Ethnicity

Maithil

History

Origin

14th century

Language Family

Indo-European Family

Subgroup

-

Branch

-

Language Forms

Early Forms

No early forms

Standard Forms

Standard Maithili

Language Position

40
Rank: 37 (Overall)
1 120
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Signed Forms

Maithili Sign Language

Scope

Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

No data available

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

mai

ISO 639 2/B

mai

ISO 639 3

mai

ISO 639 6

mai

Glottocode

mait1250

Linguasphere

No data available

Types of Language

Language Type

Living

Language Linguistic Typology

-

Language Morphological Typology

-

Know Alphabets in Maithili

When you start learning to write in any language the Alphabets form a skeleton of any language. Let's talk About Maithili Language, where you will learn the number of letter in Maithili Alphabets. Every language has its own set of alphabets or characters so it is necessary to know alphabets in Maithili. Maithili phonology gives Maithili vowels and Maithili consonants. There are 8 vowels and 22 consonants in Maithili language. Based upon the number of alphabet, vowels and consonants in the language we can check if Maithili is one of the Most Difficult Languages. All about Maithili language is given in detail in this section.

All Maithili countries

Want to explore all Maithili countries? About Maithili language serves you with all Maithili Speaking Countries. Countries that use Maithili as official language are called as Maithili countries.

  • Countries that use Maithili as their National Language are: India, Nepal.

Second language indicates to any language which the person learns in addition to first or native language.

  • Countries that use Maithili as second language are: Nepal.

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Learn Maithili greetings

Languages are used by every human being to communicate. And communication begins with the greetings. First step to form any interaction is to learn Maithili Greetings. Whenever you are travelling to new country where in you don’t know the local language of that country then you should at least be familiar with some greetings to start any formal or informal conversion. When we talk about Maithili language, we are always interested in learning useful phrases in Maithili language.Learn Maithili greetings that can be used in formal situations:

  • Hello: pranam
  • Thank you: dhanyabad
  • Good Morning: Suprabhaat
  • Good Evening: shubh sandhya
  • Good Afternoon: dopahar ke bad namaskar

All Maithili Language Codes

Get to know all Maithili language codes here. There are several languages spoken all over the world where in most of the languages have alternate names which come from diverse sources. All Maithili Language Codes are assigned with unique code. There is usually two or three letters code for each language. In most of the applications, these language codes are used where it is tedious to use language names.