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Assamese
Assamese

Maithili
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Countries

Countries

India
India, Nepal

Total No. Of Countries

12
0 46
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National Language

Bangladesh, India
India, Nepal

Second Language

Not spoken in any of the countries
Nepal

Speaking Continents

Asia
Asia

Minority Language

Bangladesh, Bhutan
Not spoken in any of the countries

Regulated By

Asam Sahitya Sabha
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Interesting Facts

  • Assamese was reinstated as the state language of Assam in 1873.
  • Assamese language has its own stream of origin, it is evolved in a different way from rest of the Indo-Aryan languages of India.
  • 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

Bengali and Oriya
Bhojpuri Language

Derived From

Sanskrit Language
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Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

5247
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

118
0 32
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How Many Consonants

4122
9 60
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Scripts

Bengali
Devanagari

Writing Direction

Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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Hard to Learn

Language Levels

36
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

44 weeks44 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

nomoskaar
pranam

Thank You

ḍhonyobaaḍ
dhanyabad

How Are You?

aapuni kene aase?
Aahan kehan chhi ?

Good Night

subhoraattri
Śubharātri

Good Evening

subha gadhuli
shubh sandhya

Good Afternoon

subha abeli
dopahar ke bad namaskar

Good Morning

suprobhaat
Suprabhaat

Please

anugroha kori
kripaya

Sorry

moi ḍukkhita
maf karai

Bye

biḍai
Alavidā

I Love You

moi tomaak bhaalpaao
hawm ahāṃ se prem karechi

Excuse Me

kyoma koribo
kripaya

Dialects

Dialect 1

Kamrupi
Tharuwat

Where They Speak

Western Assam
Nepal

How Many People Speak

6,000,000.0035,000,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Goalpariya
Madhubani

Where They Speak

Western Assam
North India

How Many People Speak

16,000,000.0035,000,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Bhakatiya
Khortha

Where They Speak

Assam
Deoghar, France

How Many People Speak

16,000,000.0035,000,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

315
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

15.30 million32.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.24 %0.41 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

15.00 million27.00 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

15.00 million2.80 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

অসমীয়া (asamīẏa)
मैथिली (mɛtʰilī)

Alternative Names

Asambe, Asami, Asamiya
Apabhramsa, Bihari, Maitili, Maitli, Methli, Tirahutia, Tirhuti, Tirhutia

French Name

assamais
maithili

German Name

Assamesisch
Maithili

Pronunciation

[ɔxɔmɔnɔ]
[ˈmaitʰili]

Ethnicity

Assamese people
Maithil

History

Origin

7th century A.D
14th century

Language Family

Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family

Subgroup

Indo-Iranian
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Branch

Indic
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Language Forms

Early Forms

Kamarupa
No early forms

Standard Forms

Assamese
Standard Maithili

Language Position

6540
1 120
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Signed Forms

Signed Assamese
Maithili Sign Language

Scope

Individual
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

as
No data available

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

asm
mai

ISO 639 2/B

asm
mai

ISO 639 3

asm
mai

ISO 639 6

asm
mai

Glottocode

assa1263
mait1250

Linguasphere

59-AAF-w
No data available

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Object-Verb
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Language Morphological Typology

-
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Assamese and Maithili Alphabets

Assamese and Maithili Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Assamese and Maithili. In Assamese Alphabets there are 52 letters while in Maithili Alphabets there are 47 letters. To learn Assamese and Maithili languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Assamese and Maithili languages. The Assamese phonology consist Assamese vowels and Assamese consonants. After alphabets, words are to be learned and after words, phrases in that language. Take a look at Assamese greetings vs Maithili greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Assamese and Maithili are Most Spoken Languages.

All Assamese and Maithili Dialects

Most languages have dialects where each dialect differ from other dialect with respect to grammar and vocabulary. Here you will get to know all Assamese and Maithili dialects. Various dialects of Assamese and Maithili language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Assamese are spoken in different Assamese Speaking Countries whereas Maithili Dialects are spoken in different Maithili speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Assamese vs Maithili Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Assamese dialects include: Kamrupi, Goalpariya. Maithili dialects include: Tharuwat , Madhubani. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

Assamese and Maithili Speaking population

Assamese and Maithili speaking population is one of the factors based on which Assamese and Maithili languages can be compared. The total count of Assamese and Maithili Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Assamese language is 0.24 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Maithili language is 0.41 %. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak Assamese and Maithili on Assamese vs Maithili where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Assamese and Maithili Language Codes

Assamese and Maithili language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Assamese and Maithili Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.