Countries
India, Pakistan
India, Nepal
Total No. Of Countries
22
0
46
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National Language
India, Pakistan
India, Nepal
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Nepal
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
-
-
Interesting Facts
- Kashmiri is the only Daridc language with literature which was originated more than seven hundred and fifty years ago.
- Kashmiri has thousands of loan words from Persian and Arabic Languages.
- 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
Hindi and Urdu Languages
Bhojpuri Language
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
4447
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
178
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2722
9
60
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Scripts
Arabic, Perso-Arabic script
Devanagari
Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
66
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Assalām ‘alaikum
pranam
Thank You
शुकिया / شکریہ (shukriya)
dhanyabad
How Are You?
तोहय छिवा वारय? (tohy ch'ivaa vaarai?)
Aahan kehan chhi ?
Good Night
शबे खैर । (shabey k'eūr)
Śubharātri
Good Evening
سہا مسا
shubh sandhya
Good Afternoon
Hach t'ochoktiya
dopahar ke bad namaskar
Good Morning
Hach ch'i
Suprabhaat
Please
مهربانی کر
kripaya
Sorry
माफ कॅरिव । (maap' keuriv)
maf karai
Bye
Khuda hāfiz
Alavidā
I Love You
be chus che seth mohabat karaan
hawm ahāṃ se prem karechi
Excuse Me
वय त्रॅाविव । (vat' treūviv)
kripaya
Dialect 1
Kashtawari
Tharuwat
Where They Speak
India, Koshtawar valley, southeast kashmir, India
Nepal
How Many People Speak
6,000,000.0035,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Poguli
Madhubani
Where They Speak
Pogul and Paristan valleys
North India
How Many People Speak
6,100,000.0035,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Rambani
Khortha
Where They Speak
India
Deoghar, France
How Many People Speak
5,600,000.0035,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
415
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
5.60 million32.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.05 %0.41 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
5.42 million27.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
5.00 million2.80 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
कॉशुर / كٲشُر
मैथिली (mɛtʰilī)
Alternative Names
Cashmeeree, Cashmiri, Kacmiri, Kaschemiri, Keshur, Koshur
Apabhramsa, Bihari, Maitili, Maitli, Methli, Tirahutia, Tirhuti, Tirhutia
French Name
kashmiri
maithili
German Name
Kaschmiri
Maithili
Pronunciation
[kəːʃur]
[ˈmaitʰili]
Ethnicity
Kashmiris or koshur
Maithil
Origin
12th Century
14th century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
-
Branch
Indic
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Kashmiri
Standard Maithili
Language Position
2340
1
120
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Signed Forms
Indian Signing System (ISS)
Maithili Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
ks
No data available
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
kas
mai
ISO 639 2/B
kas
mai
ISO 639 3
kas
mai
ISO 639 6
kas
mai
Glottocode
kash1277
mait1250
Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
-
Language Morphological Typology
-
-