Countries
India, Nepal
Hong Kong, Macau
Total No. Of Countries
22
0
46
👆🏻
National Language
India, Nepal
China, Guangdong
Second Language
Nepal
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Hawaii
Regulated By
-
Civil Service Bureau, Government of Hong Kong, Official Language Division
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.
- Cantonese have lot of slangs, many of them include words that do not make sense at all and some also have English in them.
- Even though Cantonese and Mandarin are dialects of Chinese, Cantonese has 8 tones instead of Mandarin's 4.
Similar To
Bhojpuri Language
Chinese Language
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
4728
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
88
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2220
9
60
👆🏻
Scripts
Devanagari
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
610
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks88 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
pranam
您好
Thank You
dhanyabad
谢谢
How Are You?
Aahan kehan chhi ?
你好吗？
Good Night
Śubharātri
晚安
Good Evening
shubh sandhya
晚上好
Good Afternoon
dopahar ke bad namaskar
下午好
Good Morning
Suprabhaat
早上好
Please
kripaya
请
Sorry
maf karai
遗憾
Bye
Alavidā
再见
I Love You
hawm ahāṃ se prem karechi
我爱你
Excuse Me
kripaya
原谅我
Dialect 1
Tharuwat
Guangzhou
Where They Speak
Nepal
outside mainland China
How Many People Speak
35,000,000.0071,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Madhubani
Xiguan
Where They Speak
North India
Hong Kong
How Many People Speak
35,000,000.0071,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Khortha
Hong Kong
Where They Speak
Deoghar, France
Hong Kong
How Many People Speak
35,000,000.0070,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
153
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
32.00 million60.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.41 %16.00 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
27.00 million52.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
2.80 million71.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
मैथिली (mɛtʰilī)
Kwang Tung Wa
Alternative Names
Apabhramsa, Bihari, Maitili, Maitli, Methli, Tirahutia, Tirhuti, Tirhutia
Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese
French Name
maithili
cantonais
German Name
Maithili
Kantonesisch
Pronunciation
[ˈmaitʰili]
[kʰɐn˧˥tʰœːn˧˥sɨ˧˥]
Ethnicity
Maithil
Han Chinese
Origin
14th century
17th century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
-
-
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Maithili
Standard Cantonese
Language Position
401
1
120
👆🏻
Signed Forms
Maithili Sign Language
Signed Cantonese
Scope
Individual
-
ISO 639 1
No data available
No data available
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
mai
yue
ISO 639 2/B
mai
yue
ISO 639 3
mai
No data available
ISO 639 6
mai
yue
Glottocode
mait1250
cant1236
Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
-
Language Linguistic Typology
-
-
Language Morphological Typology
-
-