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Maithili
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Dzongkha
Dzongkha



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Countries

Countries

India, Nepal
Bhutan

Total No. Of Countries

21
0 46
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National Language

India, Nepal
Bhutan

Second Language

Nepal
India

Speaking Continents

Asia
Asia

Minority Language

Not spoken in any of the countries
India

Regulated By

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Dzongkha Development Commission

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.
  • Standard romanization of the Dzongkha language is Roman Dzongkha.

Similar To

Bhojpuri Language
Sikkimese Language

Derived From

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Tibetan Language

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

4795
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

85
0 32
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How Many Consonants

2230
9 60
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Scripts

Devanagari
Dzongkha Braille, Tibetan Braille

Writing Direction

-
-

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

66
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

44 weeks38 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

pranam
Kuzoozangpo La

Thank You

dhanyabad
Kaadinchhey La

How Are You?

Aahan kehan chhi ?
Ga Day Bay Zhu Yoe Ga ?

Good Night

Śubharātri
lek shom ay zim

Good Evening

shubh sandhya
ཞི་བདེ་ལག་པ་

Good Afternoon

dopahar ke bad namaskar
ཉིན་གུང་དགའ་བོ

Good Morning

Suprabhaat
ཞི་བདེ་པའི་སྔོན་འགྲུལ

Please

kripaya
བསྐྱར་མ་

Sorry

maf karai
Tsip maza

Bye

Alavidā
Log Jay Gay

I Love You

hawm ahāṃ se prem karechi
Nga cheu lu ga

Excuse Me

kripaya
Tsip maza

Dialects

Dialect 1

Tharuwat
Laya

Where They Speak

Nepal
Bhutan

How Many People Speak

35,000,000.001,100.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Madhubani
Lunana

Where They Speak

North India
Bhutan

How Many People Speak

35,000,000.00700.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Khortha
Adap

Where They Speak

Deoghar, France
Bhutan

How Many People Speak

35,000,000.00130,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

154
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

32.00 million0.64 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.41 %0.07 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

27.00 million0.17 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

2.80 million0.47 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

मैथिली (mɛtʰilī)
རྫོང་ཁ (dzongkha)

Alternative Names

Apabhramsa, Bihari, Maitili, Maitli, Methli, Tirahutia, Tirhuti, Tirhutia
Bhotia of Bhutan, Bhotia of Dukpa, Bhutanese, Drukha, Drukke, Dukpa, Jonkha, Rdzongkha, Zongkhar

French Name

maithili
dzongkha

German Name

Maithili
Dzongkha

Pronunciation

[ˈmaitʰili]
[t͡ɕoŋkʰa]

Ethnicity

Maithil
Ngalop people

History

Origin

14th century
17th Century

Language Family

Indo-European Family
Sino-Tibetan Family

Subgroup

-
-

Branch

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Tibeto-Burman

Language Forms

Early Forms

No early forms
No early forms

Standard Forms

Standard Maithili
Dzongkha

Language Position

4031
1 120
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Signed Forms

Maithili Sign Language
Signed Dzongkha

Scope

Individual
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

No data available
dz

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

mai
dzo

ISO 639 2/B

mai
dzo

ISO 639 3

mai
dzo

ISO 639 6

mai
dzo

Glottocode

mait1250
nucl1307

Linguasphere

No data available
No data Available

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

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-

Language Morphological Typology

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Maithili and Dzongkha Alphabets

Maithili and Dzongkha Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Maithili and Dzongkha. In Maithili Alphabets there are 47 letters while in Dzongkha Alphabets there are 95 letters. To learn Maithili and Dzongkha languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Maithili and Dzongkha languages. The Maithili phonology consist Maithili vowels and Maithili consonants. After alphabets, words are to be learned and after words, phrases in that language. Take a look at Maithili greetings vs Dzongkha greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Maithili and Dzongkha are Most Spoken Languages.

All Maithili and Dzongkha Dialects

Most languages have dialects where each dialect differ from other dialect with respect to grammar and vocabulary. Here you will get to know all Maithili and Dzongkha dialects. Various dialects of Maithili and Dzongkha language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Maithili are spoken in different Maithili Speaking Countries whereas Dzongkha Dialects are spoken in different Dzongkha speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Maithili vs Dzongkha Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Maithili dialects include: Tharuwat, Madhubani. Dzongkha dialects include: Laya , Lunana. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

Maithili and Dzongkha Speaking population

Maithili and Dzongkha speaking population is one of the factors based on which Maithili and Dzongkha languages can be compared. The total count of Maithili and Dzongkha Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Maithili language is 0.41 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Dzongkha language is 0.07 %. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak Maithili and Dzongkha on Maithili vs Dzongkha where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Maithili and Dzongkha Language Codes

Maithili and Dzongkha language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Maithili and Dzongkha Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.