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Countries

Countries
India, Nepal

Total No. Of Countries
2 13

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
Maithili-Alphabets.jpg#200

Alphabets
47 27

Phonology

How Many Vowels
8 5

How Many Consonants
22 12

Scripts
Devanagari

Writing Direction
-

Hard to Learn

Language Levels
6 5

Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks 17

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 21

Dialect 2
Madhubani

Where They Speak
North India

How Many People Speak
35,000,000.00 19

Dialect 3
Khortha

Where They Speak
Deoghar, France

How Many People Speak
35,000,000.00 17

Total No. Of Dialects
15 14

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
32.00 million 35

Speaking Population
0.41 % 35

Native Speakers
27.00 million 30

Second Language Speakers
2.80 million 55

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 37

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
-

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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.

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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.

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