Countries
India, Nepal
Burma
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
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National Language
India, Nepal
Burundi, Gambia
Second Language
Nepal
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Africa, Asia
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
-
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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.
- Kirundi language is tonal, since it has high and low essential tones.
- Kirundi Language is referred as a language where Meeussen's rule is active, this rule describes a certain pattern of tonal change in Bantu languages.
Similar To
Bhojpuri Language
Kinyarwanda Language
Derived From
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
4721
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
85
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2219
9
60
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Scripts
Devanagari
Latin
Writing Direction
-
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
66
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks36 weeks
3
88
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Hello
pranam
Bwakeye
Thank You
dhanyabad
Urakoze
How Are You?
Aahan kehan chhi ?
Urakomeye?
Good Night
Śubharātri
Ijoro ryiza
Good Evening
shubh sandhya
Mwiriwe
Good Afternoon
dopahar ke bad namaskar
Mwiriwe
Good Morning
Suprabhaat
Mwaramutse
Please
kripaya
Ndagusavye
Sorry
maf karai
Ndasubiza
Bye
Alavidā
N’agasaga
I Love You
hawm ahāṃ se prem karechi
Ndi waramutse
Excuse Me
kripaya
Ndasaba
Dialect 1
Tharuwat
Rwanda-Rundi
Where They Speak
Nepal
Burundi, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda
How Many People Speak
35,000,000.0020,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Madhubani
Ha
Where They Speak
North India
Tanzania
How Many People Speak
35,000,000.00990,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Khortha
Shubi
Where They Speak
Deoghar, France
Tanzania
How Many People Speak
35,000,000.00153,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
156
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
32.00 million8.80 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.41 %0.13 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
27.00 million8.80 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
2.80 million12.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
मैथिली (mɛtʰilī)
íkiRǔndi
Alternative Names
Apabhramsa, Bihari, Maitili, Maitli, Methli, Tirahutia, Tirhuti, Tirhutia
Rundi, Urundi
French Name
maithili
rundi
German Name
Maithili
Kirundi
Pronunciation
[ˈmaitʰili]
[kɪˈrʊndi]
Ethnicity
Maithil
Hutu, Tutsi, and Twa
Origin
14th century
1500
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Niger-Congo Family
Subgroup
-
-
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Maithili
Kirundi
Language Position
4086
1
120
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Signed Forms
Maithili Sign Language
Kirundi Sign Language
Scope
Individual
-
ISO 639 1
No data available
rn
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
mai
run
ISO 639 2/B
mai
run
ISO 639 3
mai
run
ISO 639 6
mai
run
Glottocode
mait1250
rund1242
Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
-
Language Linguistic Typology
-
-
Language Morphological Typology
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