Countries
India, Nepal
European Union, Latvia
Total No. Of Countries
22
0
46
👆🏻
National Language
India, Nepal
Latvia
Second Language
Nepal
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Europe
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
-
Latvian State Language Center
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.
- The first written form of Latvian dates from 16th century was found in religious texts.
- The old latvian language was based on the a Gothic script.
Similar To
Bhojpuri Language
Lithuanian Language
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
4733
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
89
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2224
9
60
👆🏻
Scripts
Devanagari
Latin
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
66
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
pranam
Sveiki
Thank You
dhanyabad
Paldies
How Are You?
Aahan kehan chhi ?
Kā jums klājas?
Good Night
Śubharātri
Ar labunakti
Good Evening
shubh sandhya
Labvakar
Good Afternoon
dopahar ke bad namaskar
Labdien
Good Morning
Suprabhaat
Labrīt
Please
kripaya
lūdzu
Sorry
maf karai
Piedodiet!
Bye
Alavidā
Uz redzēšanos
I Love You
hawm ahāṃ se prem karechi
Es tevi mīlu
Excuse Me
kripaya
Piedodiet!
Dialect 1
Tharuwat
Livonian
Where They Speak
Nepal
Latvia
How Many People Speak
35,000,000.001,500,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Madhubani
Middle Latvian
Where They Speak
North India
Latvia
How Many People Speak
35,000,000.002,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Khortha
High Latvian
Where They Speak
Deoghar, France
France, Latvia
How Many People Speak
35,000,000.001,500,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
153
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
32.00 million1.75 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.41 %0.07 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
27.00 million1.75 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
2.80 million2.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
मैथिली (mɛtʰilī)
latviešu valoda
Alternative Names
Apabhramsa, Bihari, Maitili, Maitli, Methli, Tirahutia, Tirhuti, Tirhutia
Lettish
French Name
maithili
letton
German Name
Maithili
Lettisch
Pronunciation
[ˈmaitʰili]
[ˈlætviən]
Ethnicity
Maithil
Latvians or Letts
Origin
14th century
1530
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
-
Baltic
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Maithili
Latvian
Language Position
409
1
120
👆🏻
Signed Forms
Maithili Sign Language
Latvian Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Macrolanguage
ISO 639 1
No data available
lv
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
mai
lav
ISO 639 2/B
mai
lav
ISO 639 3
mai
lav
ISO 639 6
mai
lav
Glottocode
mait1250
latv1249
Linguasphere
No data available
54-AAB-a
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
-
Synthetic