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Maithili
Maithili

Japanese
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Countries

Countries

India, Nepal
Japan

Total No. Of Countries

21
0 46
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National Language

India, Nepal
Japan

Second Language

Nepal
Not spoken in any of the countries

Speaking Continents

Asia
Asia, Pacific

Minority Language

Not spoken in any of the countries
Palau

Regulated By

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Agency for Cultural Affairs (文化庁) at the Ministry of Education

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 Japanese Language, there are 4 different ways to address people: kun, chan, san and sama.
  • There are many words in Japanese language which end with vowel letter, which determines the structure and rhythm of Japanese.

Similar To

Bhojpuri Language
Korean Language

Derived From

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-

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

4799
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

85
0 32
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How Many Consonants

2214
9 60
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Scripts

Devanagari
Kana

Writing Direction

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Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

65
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

44 weeks88 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

pranam
こんにちは (Kon'nichiwa)

Thank You

dhanyabad
ありがとう (Arigatō)

How Are You?

Aahan kehan chhi ?
お元気ですか (O genki desu ka?)

Good Night

Śubharātri
おやすみなさい (Oyasuminasai)

Good Evening

shubh sandhya
こんばんは (Konbanwa)

Good Afternoon

dopahar ke bad namaskar
こんにちは (Konnichiwa!)

Good Morning

Suprabhaat
おはよう (Ohayō)

Please

kripaya
お願いします (Onegaishimasu)

Sorry

maf karai
ごめんなさい (Gomen'nasai)

Bye

Alavidā
さようなら (Sayōnara)

I Love You

hawm ahāṃ se prem karechi
愛しています (Aishiteimasu)

Excuse Me

kripaya
すみません (Sumimasen)

Dialects

Dialect 1

Tharuwat
Sanuki

Where They Speak

Nepal
Kagawa

How Many People Speak

35,000,000.001,000,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Madhubani
Hakata

Where They Speak

North India
Fukuoka

How Many People Speak

35,000,000.00127,000,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Khortha
Kansai

Where They Speak

Deoghar, France
kansai

How Many People Speak

35,000,000.00127,000,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

1531
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

32.00 million128.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.41 %1.90 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

27.00 million128.00 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

2.80 million3.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

मैथिली (mɛtʰilī)
日本語

Alternative Names

Apabhramsa, Bihari, Maitili, Maitli, Methli, Tirahutia, Tirhuti, Tirhutia
Nihongo

French Name

maithili
japonais

German Name

Maithili
Japanisch

Pronunciation

[ˈmaitʰili]
/nihoɴɡo/: [nihõŋɡo], [nihõŋŋo]

Ethnicity

Maithil
Japanese (Yamato)

History

Origin

14th century
1185

Language Family

Indo-European Family
Japonic Family

Subgroup

-
-

Branch

-
-

Language Forms

Early Forms

No early forms
Old Japanese, Early Middle Japanese, Late Middle Japanese and Early Modern Japanese

Standard Forms

Standard Maithili
Japanese

Language Position

408
1 120
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Signed Forms

Maithili Sign Language
Signed Japanese

Scope

Individual
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

No data available
ja

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

mai
jpn

ISO 639 2/B

mai
jpn

ISO 639 3

mai
jpn

ISO 639 6

mai
jpn

Glottocode

mait1250
nucl1643

Linguasphere

No data available
45-CAA-a

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

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Subject-Object-Verb

Language Morphological Typology

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Agglutinative, Synthetic

Maithili and Japanese Alphabets

Maithili and Japanese Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Maithili and Japanese. In Maithili Alphabets there are 47 letters while in Japanese Alphabets there are 99 letters. To learn Maithili and Japanese languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Maithili and Japanese 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 Japanese greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Maithili and Japanese are Most Spoken Languages.

All Maithili and Japanese 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 Japanese dialects. Various dialects of Maithili and Japanese language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Maithili are spoken in different Maithili Speaking Countries whereas Japanese Dialects are spoken in different Japanese speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Maithili vs Japanese Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Maithili dialects include: Tharuwat, Madhubani. Japanese dialects include: Sanuki , Hakata. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

Maithili and Japanese Speaking population

Maithili and Japanese speaking population is one of the factors based on which Maithili and Japanese languages can be compared. The total count of Maithili and Japanese Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Maithili language is 0.41 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Japanese language is 1.90 %. 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 Japanese on Maithili vs Japanese where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Maithili and Japanese Language Codes

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