Countries
India, Nepal
India
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
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National Language
India, Nepal
India
Second Language
Nepal
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Great Britain, Kenya, Malawi, Oman, Pakistan, Tanzania, Uganda, United States of America, 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.
- Gujarati was the first language of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi("Father of the Nation of India") and Vallabhbhai Patel ("Iron Man of India").
- Most of the words in Gujarati language are adopted from Sanskrit.
Similar To
Bhojpuri Language
Bengali Language
Derived From
-
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
4747
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
88
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2231
9
60
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Scripts
Devanagari
Devanagari
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
66
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks18 weeks
3
88
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Hello
pranam
નમસ્તે (namaste)
Thank You
dhanyabad
ધન્યવાદ (dhanvaad)
How Are You?
Aahan kehan chhi ?
કેમ છો (kem cho?)
Good Night
Śubharātri
શુભ રાત્રે (shub rātrē)
Good Evening
shubh sandhya
સાંજે સારી (sān̄jē sārī)
Good Afternoon
dopahar ke bad namaskar
સારા બપોરે (sārā bapōrē)
Good Morning
Suprabhaat
સુ પ્રભાત (su prabhat)
Please
kripaya
કૃપા કરીને(Kr̥pā karīnē)
Sorry
maf karai
મન્ને મફ કરો (manne maaf karo)
Bye
Alavidā
બાય (Bāya)
I Love You
hawm ahāṃ se prem karechi
હું તને પ્રેમ કરુ છું (hūṃ tane prem karū chūṃ)
Excuse Me
kripaya
માફ કરશો (Māpha karaśō)
Dialect 1
Tharuwat
Kathiyawadi
Where They Speak
Nepal
India, Mauritius, Oman, Pakistan, Singapore, South Africa, Tanzania, United Kingdom, United States of America
How Many People Speak
35,000,000.0046,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Madhubani
Kharwa
Where They Speak
North India
India, Mauritius, Pakistan, Singapore, United Kingdom, United States of America
How Many People Speak
35,000,000.0056,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Khortha
Surati
Where They Speak
Deoghar, France
-
How Many People Speak
35,000,000.0056,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
158
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
32.00 million60.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.41 %0.74 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
27.00 million50.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
2.80 million55.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
मैथिली (mɛtʰilī)
ગુજરાતી (gujarātī)
Alternative Names
Apabhramsa, Bihari, Maitili, Maitli, Methli, Tirahutia, Tirhuti, Tirhutia
Gujerathi, Gujerati, Gujrathi
French Name
maithili
goudjrati
German Name
Maithili
Gujarati-Sprache
Pronunciation
[ˈmaitʰili]
[ɡudʒəˈɾɑːt̪i]
Ethnicity
Maithil
Gujaratis
Origin
14th century
15
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
-
Indo-Iranian
Branch
-
Indic
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Old Gujarati
Standard Forms
Standard Maithili
Modern Gujarati
Language Position
4023
1
120
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Signed Forms
Maithili Sign Language
Signed Gujarati
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
No data available
gu
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
mai
guj
ISO 639 2/B
mai
guj
ISO 639 3
mai
guj
ISO 639 6
mai
guj
Glottocode
mait1250
guja1252
Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
-
-