Countries
Iran
India, Nepal
Total No. Of Countries
12
0
46
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National Language
Iran
India, Nepal
Second Language
-
Nepal
Speaking Continents
Antartica
Asia
Minority Language
-
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
-
-
Interesting Facts
Luri language is spoken mainly in western and southwestern Iran.
- 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
Persian
Bhojpuri Language
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
4547
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
58
0
32
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How Many Consonants
4022
9
60
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Scripts
Arabic
Devanagari
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
66
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
25 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
hello
pranam
Thank You
Thank you
dhanyabad
How Are You?
how are you
Aahan kehan chhi ?
Good Night
Good night
Śubharātri
Good Evening
Good evening
shubh sandhya
Good Afternoon
Good afternoon
dopahar ke bad namaskar
Good Morning
Good morning
Suprabhaat
Please
Please
kripaya
Sorry
sorry
maf karai
Bye
bye
Alavidā
I Love You
i love you
hawm ahāṃ se prem karechi
Excuse Me
excuse me
kripaya
Dialect 1
Feyli lurish
Tharuwat
Where They Speak
Eastern Iraq, Western Iran
Nepal
How Many People Speak
3,000,000.0035,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Bakhtiari
Madhubani
Where They Speak
Iran
North India
How Many People Speak
3,000,000.0035,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Laki
Khortha
Where They Speak
Iran
Deoghar, France
How Many People Speak
1,000,000.0035,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
515
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
0.00 million32.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.00 %0.41 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
0.00 million27.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
89.00 million2.80 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
nanme
मैथिली (mɛtʰilī)
Alternative Names
Lori, Luri, Luristani
Apabhramsa, Bihari, Maitili, Maitli, Methli, Tirahutia, Tirhuti, Tirhutia
French Name
louri
maithili
German Name
-
Maithili
Pronunciation
[ˈoɽia]
[ˈmaitʰili]
Ethnicity
Lurs
Maithil
Origin
19 BC
14th century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
-
Branch
Indic
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
gd
No early forms
Standard Forms
gd
Standard Maithili
Language Position
2340
1
120
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Signed Forms
Indian Signing System
Maithili Sign Language
Scope
-
Individual
ISO 639 1
12
No data available
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
lrc
mai
ISO 639 2/B
lrc
mai
ISO 639 3
12
mai
ISO 639 6
lrc
mai
Glottocode
12
mait1250
Linguasphere
12
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
-
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
-
Language Morphological Typology
-
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