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Maithili
Maithili

Assamese
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Countries

Countries

India, Nepal
India

Total No. Of Countries

21
0 46
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National Language

India, Nepal
Bangladesh, India

Second Language

Nepal
Not spoken in any of the countries

Speaking Continents

Asia
Asia

Minority Language

Not spoken in any of the countries
Bangladesh, Bhutan

Regulated By

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Asam Sahitya Sabha

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.
  • 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.

Similar To

Bhojpuri Language
Bengali and Oriya

Derived From

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Sanskrit Language

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

4752
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

811
0 32
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How Many Consonants

2241
9 60
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Scripts

Devanagari
Bengali

Writing Direction

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Left-To-Right, Horizontal

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

63
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

44 weeks44 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

pranam
nomoskaar

Thank You

dhanyabad
ḍhonyobaaḍ

How Are You?

Aahan kehan chhi ?
aapuni kene aase?

Good Night

Śubharātri
subhoraattri

Good Evening

shubh sandhya
subha gadhuli

Good Afternoon

dopahar ke bad namaskar
subha abeli

Good Morning

Suprabhaat
suprobhaat

Please

kripaya
anugroha kori

Sorry

maf karai
moi ḍukkhita

Bye

Alavidā
biḍai

I Love You

hawm ahāṃ se prem karechi
moi tomaak bhaalpaao

Excuse Me

kripaya
kyoma koribo

Dialects

Dialect 1

Tharuwat
Kamrupi

Where They Speak

Nepal
Western Assam

How Many People Speak

35,000,000.006,000,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Madhubani
Goalpariya

Where They Speak

North India
Western Assam

How Many People Speak

35,000,000.0016,000,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Khortha
Bhakatiya

Where They Speak

Deoghar, France
Assam

How Many People Speak

35,000,000.0016,000,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

153
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

32.00 million15.30 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.41 %0.24 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

27.00 million15.00 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

2.80 million15.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

मैथिली (mɛtʰilī)
অসমীয়া (asamīẏa)

Alternative Names

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

French Name

maithili
assamais

German Name

Maithili
Assamesisch

Pronunciation

[ˈmaitʰili]
[ɔxɔmɔnɔ]

Ethnicity

Maithil
Assamese people

History

Origin

14th century
7th century A.D

Language Family

Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family

Subgroup

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Indo-Iranian

Branch

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Indic

Language Forms

Early Forms

No early forms
Kamarupa

Standard Forms

Standard Maithili
Assamese

Language Position

4065
1 120
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Signed Forms

Maithili Sign Language
Signed Assamese

Scope

Individual
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

No data available
as

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

mai
asm

ISO 639 2/B

mai
asm

ISO 639 3

mai
asm

ISO 639 6

mai
asm

Glottocode

mait1250
assa1263

Linguasphere

No data available
59-AAF-w

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

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Subject-Object-Verb

Language Morphological Typology

-
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Maithili and Assamese Alphabets

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

All Maithili and Assamese 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 Maithili and Assamese dialects. Various dialects of Maithili and Assamese language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Maithili are spoken in different Maithili Speaking Countries whereas Assamese Dialects are spoken in different Assamese speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Maithili vs Assamese Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Maithili dialects include: Tharuwat, Madhubani. Assamese dialects include: Kamrupi , Goalpariya. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

Maithili and Assamese Speaking population

Maithili and Assamese speaking population is one of the factors based on which Maithili and Assamese languages can be compared. The total count of Maithili and Assamese Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Maithili language is 0.41 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Assamese language is 0.24 %. 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 Maithili and Assamese on Maithili vs Assamese where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Maithili and Assamese Language Codes

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