Countries
India, Nepal
Fiji, India
Total No. Of Countries
22
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, Oceania
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
-
Central Hindi Directorate
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.
- In Hindi language, nouns are followed by post positions.
- In Hindi, there are many familiar words in English which are in Hindi or of Hindi origin.
Similar To
Bhojpuri Language
Urdu
Derived From
-
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
4744
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
811
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2233
9
60
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Scripts
Devanagari
Devanagari
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
64
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
pranam
नमस्ते (Namastē)
Thank You
dhanyabad
धन्यवाद (Dhan'yavāda)
How Are You?
Aahan kehan chhi ?
तुम कैसे हो? (Tuma kaisē hō?)
Good Night
Śubharātri
शुभरात्रि (Śubharātri)
Good Evening
shubh sandhya
शुभ सन्ध्या (shubh sandhya)
Good Afternoon
dopahar ke bad namaskar
दोपहर के बाद नमस्कार (dopahar ke bad namaskar)
Good Morning
Suprabhaat
सुप्रभात (Suprabhāta)
Please
kripaya
कृपया (Kr̥payā)
Sorry
maf karai
खेद (Khēda)
Bye
Alavidā
अलविदा (Alavidā)
I Love You
hawm ahāṃ se prem karechi
मैं आपसे प्यार करता (Maiṁ āpasē pyāra karatā)
Excuse Me
kripaya
मुझे माफ करें (Mujhē māpha karēṁ)
Dialect 1
Tharuwat
Khariboli
Where They Speak
Nepal
Delhi, Haryana, Western Uttar Pradesh
How Many People Speak
35,000,000.00240,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Madhubani
Marwari
Where They Speak
North India
Gujarat, Haryana, Rajasthan, Sindh
How Many People Speak
35,000,000.0022,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Khortha
Bundeli
Where They Speak
Deoghar, France
Bundelkhand
How Many People Speak
35,000,000.0020,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
1521
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
32.00 million380.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.41 %4.70 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
27.00 million260.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
2.80 million120.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
मैथिली (mɛtʰilī)
हिन्दी
Alternative Names
Apabhramsa, Bihari, Maitili, Maitli, Methli, Tirahutia, Tirhuti, Tirhutia
Khadi Boli, Khari Boli
French Name
maithili
hindi
German Name
Maithili
Hindi
Pronunciation
[ˈmaitʰili]
[ˈmaːnək ˈɦin̪d̪iː]
Ethnicity
Maithil
Hindustani people
Origin
14th century
7th Century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
-
Indo-Iranian
Branch
-
Indic
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Maithili
Standard Hindi
Language Position
405
1
120
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Signed Forms
Maithili Sign Language
Indian Signing System
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
No data available
hi
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
mai
hin
ISO 639 2/B
mai
hin
ISO 639 3
mai
hin
ISO 639 6
mai
hins
Glottocode
mait1250
hind1269
Linguasphere
No data available
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Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
-
Language Morphological Typology
-
Fusional, Synthetic