Countries
India, Nepal
Nigeria
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
👆🏻
National Language
India, Nepal
Gambia, Nigeria
Second Language
Nepal
Nigeria
Speaking Continents
Asia
Africa
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Benin, Cameroon, Cote d'Ivoire, Ghana, Niger, Sudan, Togo
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.
- Hausa language is the most important and the best known of the Chadic branch.
- There are about one-fourth of Hausa words come from Arabic.
Similar To
Bhojpuri Language
Yoruba and Igbo Languages
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
4744
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
812
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2232
9
60
👆🏻
Scripts
Devanagari
Latin
Writing Direction
-
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
65
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
pranam
sannu
Thank You
dhanyabad
gode ku
How Are You?
Aahan kehan chhi ?
yaya dai
Good Night
Śubharātri
mai kyau dare
Good Evening
shubh sandhya
barka da yamma
Good Afternoon
dopahar ke bad namaskar
barka da rana
Good Morning
Suprabhaat
mai kyau safe
Please
kripaya
Don Allah
Sorry
maf karai
yi hakuri
Bye
Alavidā
sai anjima
I Love You
hawm ahāṃ se prem karechi
Ina son ku
Excuse Me
kripaya
gafara dai
Dialect 1
Tharuwat
Gaananci
Where They Speak
Nepal
Ghana
How Many People Speak
35,000,000.0050,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Madhubani
Kurhwayanci
Where They Speak
North India
Niger
How Many People Speak
35,000,000.00150,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Khortha
Daragaram
Where They Speak
Deoghar, France
Niger
How Many People Speak
35,000,000.0050.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
1520
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
32.00 million50.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.41 %0.52 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
27.00 million35.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
2.80 million15.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
मैथिली (mɛtʰilī)
حَوْسَ (ḥawsa)
Alternative Names
Apabhramsa, Bihari, Maitili, Maitli, Methli, Tirahutia, Tirhuti, Tirhutia
Abakwariga, Habe, Haoussa, Hausawa, Kado, Mgbakpa
French Name
maithili
haoussa
German Name
Maithili
Haussa-Sprache
Pronunciation
[ˈmaitʰili]
[hàʊsà]
Ethnicity
Maithil
Hausa–Fulani people
Origin
14th century
14
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Subgroup
-
Chadic
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Maithili
Hausa
Language Position
4034
1
120
👆🏻
Signed Forms
Maithili Sign Language
Signed Hausa
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
No data available
ha
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
mai
hau
ISO 639 2/B
mai
hau
ISO 639 3
mai
hau
ISO 639 6
mai
hau
Glottocode
mait1250
haus1257
Linguasphere
No data available
19-HAA-b
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
-
Fusional