Countries
India, Nepal
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan
Total No. Of Countries
25
0
46
👆🏻
National Language
India, Nepal
China, Taiwan
Second Language
Nepal
Republic of Brazil
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Indonesia, Malaysia
Regulated By
-
Chinese Language Standardization Council, National Commission on Language and Script Work, Promote Mandarin Council
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.
- Chinese language is tonal, since meaning of a word changes according to its tone.
- In Chinese language, there is no grammatical distinction between singular or plural, no declination of verbs according to tense, mood and aspect.
Similar To
Bhojpuri Language
Japanese and Korean Languages
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
4726
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
824
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2223
9
60
👆🏻
Scripts
Devanagari
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
66
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks88 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
pranam
您好 (Nín hǎo)
Thank You
dhanyabad
谢谢 (Xièxiè)
How Are You?
Aahan kehan chhi ?
你好吗？ (Nǐ hǎo ma?)
Good Night
Śubharātri
晚安 (Wǎn'ān)
Good Evening
shubh sandhya
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)
Good Afternoon
dopahar ke bad namaskar
下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)
Good Morning
Suprabhaat
早安 (Zǎo ān)
Please
kripaya
请 (Qǐng)
Sorry
maf karai
遗憾 (Yíhàn)
Bye
Alavidā
再见 (Zàijiàn)
I Love You
hawm ahāṃ se prem karechi
我爱你 (Wǒ ài nǐ)
Excuse Me
kripaya
劳驾 (Láojià)
Dialect 1
Tharuwat
Mandarin
Where They Speak
Nepal
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan
How Many People Speak
35,000,000.00960,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Madhubani
Wu
Where They Speak
North India
China, United States of America
How Many People Speak
35,000,000.0080,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Khortha
Yue
Where They Speak
Deoghar, France
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
How Many People Speak
35,000,000.0060,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
1510
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
32.00 million1,051.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.41 %16.00 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
27.00 million873.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
2.80 million178.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
मैथिली (mɛtʰilī)
中文 (zhōngwén)
Alternative Names
Apabhramsa, Bihari, Maitili, Maitli, Methli, Tirahutia, Tirhuti, Tirhutia
Zhongwen, Hanyu
French Name
maithili
chinois
German Name
Maithili
Chinesisch
Pronunciation
[ˈmaitʰili]
[ʈʂʰíŋ] [huà]
Ethnicity
Maithil
Han
Origin
14th century
1250 BC
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 Chinese
Language Position
401
1
120
👆🏻
Signed Forms
Maithili Sign Language
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
No data available
zh
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
mai
zho
ISO 639 2/B
mai
chi
ISO 639 3
mai
zho
ISO 639 6
mai
zho
Glottocode
mait1250
sini1245
Linguasphere
No data available
79-AAA
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
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Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
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Analytic, Isolating