Countries
India, Nepal
Malawi, Zimbabwe
Total No. Of Countries
22
0
46
👆🏻
National Language
India, Nepal
Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia, Zimbabwe
Second Language
Nepal
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Africa
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Zambia
Regulated By
-
-
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.
- Chewa is one of the 55 languages featured on the Voyager spacecraft.
- Most widely known language of Malawi is Chewa.
Similar To
Bhojpuri Language
Zulu language
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
4731
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
85
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2218
9
60
👆🏻
Scripts
Devanagari
Latin
Writing Direction
-
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
65
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks32 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
pranam
Moni
Thank You
dhanyabad
Zikomo
How Are You?
Aahan kehan chhi ?
Muli bwanji?
Good Night
Śubharātri
Usiku wabwino
Good Evening
shubh sandhya
Madzulo abwino
Good Afternoon
dopahar ke bad namaskar
Masana abwino
Good Morning
Suprabhaat
M'mawa wabwino
Please
kripaya
Chonde
Sorry
maf karai
pepani
Bye
Alavidā
anatsanzikana
I Love You
hawm ahāṃ se prem karechi
Ndimakukondani
Excuse Me
kripaya
Pepani
Dialect 1
Tharuwat
Kasungu
Where They Speak
Nepal
Malawi, Zambia
How Many People Speak
35,000,000.0012,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Madhubani
Kikamtunda
Where They Speak
North India
Malawi, Zambia
How Many People Speak
35,000,000.0010,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Khortha
Kimaravi
Where They Speak
Deoghar, France
Malawi, Zambia
How Many People Speak
35,000,000.001,200,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
155
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
32.00 million12.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.41 %0.17 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
27.00 million12.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
2.80 million1.50 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
मैथिली (mɛtʰilī)
Nyanja
Alternative Names
Apabhramsa, Bihari, Maitili, Maitli, Methli, Tirahutia, Tirhuti, Tirhutia
Chichewa, Chinyanja, Nyanja, Nyanja-Chewa
French Name
maithili
chichewa; chewa; nyanja
German Name
Maithili
Nyanja-Sprache
Pronunciation
[ˈmaitʰili]
[ˈtʃewa]
Ethnicity
Maithil
Chewa people
Origin
14th century
15th Century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Niger-Congo Family
Subgroup
-
Benue-Congo
Branch
-
Bantu
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Maithili
Chewa
Language Position
4027
1
120
👆🏻
Signed Forms
Maithili Sign Language
Chewa Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
No data available
ny
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
mai
nya
ISO 639 2/B
mai
nya
ISO 639 3
mai
nya
ISO 639 6
mai
nya
Glottocode
mait1250
nyan1308
Linguasphere
No data available
99-AUS-xaa – xag
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
-
Language Morphological Typology
-
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