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
-
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
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
4799
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
85
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2214
9
60
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Scripts
Devanagari
Kana
Writing Direction
-
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
👆🏻
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)
Dialect 1
Tharuwat
Sanuki
Where They Speak
Nepal
Kagawa
How Many People Speak
35,000,000.001,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Madhubani
Hakata
Where They Speak
North India
Fukuoka
How Many People Speak
35,000,000.00127,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Khortha
Kansai
Where They Speak
Deoghar, France
kansai
How Many People Speak
35,000,000.00127,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
1531
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
32.00 million128.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.41 %1.90 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
27.00 million128.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
2.80 million3.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
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)
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
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