Countries
India, Nepal
Nigeria
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
👆🏻
National Language
India, Nepal
Nigeria
Second Language
Nepal
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Africa
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Equatorial Guinea
Regulated By
-
Society for Promoting Igbo Language and Culture
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 Igbo, there is complicated system of high and low tones indicating differences in meaning and grammatical relationships.
- Igbo has inexhaustible and rich linguistic features like idioms, proverbs, aphorisms, anecdotes etc.
Similar To
Bhojpuri Language
Yoruba and Hausa Languages
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
4736
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
88
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2228
9
60
👆🏻
Scripts
Devanagari
Latin
Writing Direction
-
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
63
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks52 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
pranam
kedụ
Thank You
dhanyabad
dalụ
How Are You?
Aahan kehan chhi ?
kedụ ka ịmere
Good Night
Śubharātri
ka chi fo
Good Evening
shubh sandhya
mgbede ọma
Good Afternoon
dopahar ke bad namaskar
ehihie ọma
Good Morning
Suprabhaat
ụtụtụ ọma
Please
kripaya
Biko
Sorry
maf karai
Ndo
Bye
Alavidā
Kachifo
I Love You
hawm ahāṃ se prem karechi
a hụrụ m gị n'anya
Excuse Me
kripaya
ngọpụ
Dialect 1
Tharuwat
Enuani
Where They Speak
Nepal
Nigeria
How Many People Speak
35,000,000.0028,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Madhubani
Ngwa
Where They Speak
North India
Nigeria
How Many People Speak
35,000,000.001,500,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Khortha
Not present
Where They Speak
Deoghar, France
-
How Many People Speak
35,000,000.0024.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
1520
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
32.00 million25.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.41 %0.09 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
27.00 million25.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
2.80 million24.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
मैथिली (mɛtʰilī)
igbo
Alternative Names
Apabhramsa, Bihari, Maitili, Maitli, Methli, Tirahutia, Tirhuti, Tirhutia
Ibo
French Name
maithili
igbo
German Name
Maithili
Ibo-Sprache
Pronunciation
[ˈmaitʰili]
[iɡ͡boː]
Ethnicity
Maithil
Igbo people
Origin
14th century
30th Century BC
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Niger-Congo Family
Subgroup
-
Kwa
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Maithili
Standard Igbo
Language Position
4057
1
120
👆🏻
Signed Forms
Maithili Sign Language
Igbo Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
No data available
ig
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
mai
ibo
ISO 639 2/B
mai
ibo
ISO 639 3
mai
ibo
ISO 639 6
mai
ibo
Glottocode
mait1250
nucl1417
Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
-
Language Morphological Typology
-
Agglutinative