Countries
India, Nepal
Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname
Total No. Of Countries
26
0
46
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National Language
India, Nepal
Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname
Second Language
Nepal
South Africa
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia, Europe, North America, South America
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
France, Germany, Indonesia
Regulated By
-
Nederlandse Taalunie (Dutch Language Union)
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.
- Dutch language consist of extremely long words. The longest dutch word in the dictionary is 53 letters long.
- There exists 75% borrowed words in Dutch language, and a lot of those are French, English and Hebrew.
Similar To
Bhojpuri Language
German and English Languages
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
4726
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
86
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2221
9
60
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Scripts
Devanagari
Latin
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
66
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks24 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
pranam
Hallo
Thank You
dhanyabad
dankjewel
How Are You?
Aahan kehan chhi ?
hoe gaat het met je?
Good Night
Śubharātri
goede Nacht
Good Evening
shubh sandhya
goedenavond
Good Afternoon
dopahar ke bad namaskar
goedemiddag
Good Morning
Suprabhaat
goedemorgen
Please
kripaya
alsjeblieft
Sorry
maf karai
sorry
Bye
Alavidā
vaarwel
I Love You
hawm ahāṃ se prem karechi
Ik hou van jou
Excuse Me
kripaya
pardon
Dialect 1
Tharuwat
Gronings
Where They Speak
Nepal
Netherlands
How Many People Speak
35,000,000.00590,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Madhubani
Low Saxon
Where They Speak
North India
Denmark, Germany, Netherlands
How Many People Speak
35,000,000.004,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Khortha
Limburgian
Where They Speak
Deoghar, France
Belgium, Netherlands
How Many People Speak
35,000,000.001,300,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
157
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
32.00 million28.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.41 %0.32 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
27.00 million22.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
2.80 million6.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
मैथिली (mɛtʰilī)
Nederlands
Alternative Names
Apabhramsa, Bihari, Maitili, Maitli, Methli, Tirahutia, Tirhuti, Tirhutia
Hollands, Nederlands
French Name
maithili
néerlandais; flamand
German Name
Maithili
Niederländisch
Pronunciation
[ˈmaitʰili]
[ˈneːdərlɑnts]
Ethnicity
Maithil
Dutch people
Origin
14th century
AD 450-500
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
-
Germanic
Branch
-
Western
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Old Dutch, Middle Dutch and Dutch
Standard Forms
Standard Maithili
Standard Dutch
Language Position
4048
1
120
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Signed Forms
Maithili Sign Language
Signed Dutch (Nederlands met Gebaren)
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
No data available
nl
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
mai
nld
ISO 639 2/B
mai
dut
ISO 639 3
mai
nld
ISO 639 6
mai
nld
Glottocode
mait1250
mode1257
Linguasphere
No data available
52-ACB-a
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Historical
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
-
Synthetic