Countries
India, Nepal
Bulgaria, European Union
Total No. Of Countries
22
0
46
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National Language
India, Nepal
Bulgaria
Second Language
Nepal
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Africa, Europe
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Hungary, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Ukraine
Regulated By
-
Institute for the Bulgarian language
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.
- The only Slavic language which has lost all its grammatical cases is Bulgarian.
- The first Slavic language to be written was Bulgarian in 9th century.
Similar To
Bhojpuri Language
Macedonian language
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
4730
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
86
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2236
9
60
👆🏻
Scripts
Devanagari
Cyrillic
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
63
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
pranam
Здравейте (Zdraveĭte)
Thank You
dhanyabad
Благодаря ти (blagodarya ti)
How Are You?
Aahan kehan chhi ?
Как си? (Kak si?)
Good Night
Śubharātri
Лека нощ (Leka nošt)
Good Evening
shubh sandhya
Добър вечер (Dobãr večer)
Good Afternoon
dopahar ke bad namaskar
Добър ден (Dobãr den)
Good Morning
Suprabhaat
Добро утро (Dobro utro)
Please
kripaya
Моля (Molja)
Sorry
maf karai
Съжалявам (Sãžaljavam)
Bye
Alavidā
Довиждане (Doviždane)
I Love You
hawm ahāṃ se prem karechi
Обичам те (Običam te)
Excuse Me
kripaya
Извинете ме (Izvinete me)
Dialect 1
Tharuwat
Kotel-Elena-Dryanovo
Where They Speak
Nepal
Bulgaria
How Many People Speak
35,000,000.009,200,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Madhubani
Panagyurishte
Where They Speak
North India
Bulgaria
How Many People Speak
35,000,000.009,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Khortha
Pirdop
Where They Speak
Deoghar, France
Bulgaria
How Many People Speak
35,000,000.009,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
1558
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
32.00 million7.80 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.41 %0.21 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
27.00 million7.80 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
2.80 million9.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
मैथिली (mɛtʰilī)
български (bãlgarski)
Alternative Names
Apabhramsa, Bihari, Maitili, Maitli, Methli, Tirahutia, Tirhuti, Tirhutia
Balgarski
French Name
maithili
bulgare
German Name
Maithili
Bulgarisch
Pronunciation
[ˈmaitʰili]
[ˈbɤɫɡɐrski]
Ethnicity
Maithil
Bulgarian people
Origin
14th century
9th Century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
-
Slavic
Branch
-
Southern
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Old Bulgarian, Middle Bulgarian, Modern Bulgarian
Standard Forms
Standard Maithili
Standard Bulgarian
Language Position
4088
1
120
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Signed Forms
Maithili Sign Language
Bulgarian Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
No data available
bg
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
mai
bul
ISO 639 2/B
mai
bul
ISO 639 3
mai
bul
ISO 639 6
mai
buls
Glottocode
mait1250
bulg1262
Linguasphere
No data available
53-AAA-hb
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
-
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