Countries
India, Nepal
India, Lakshadweep, Puducherry
Total No. Of Countries
23
0
46
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National Language
India, Nepal
Kerala, India, Lakshadweep, Puducherry
Second Language
Nepal
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Andaman and Nicobar Islands
Regulated By
-
Academy for Malayalam literature, Government of Kerala
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.
- Malayalam language has 54 literals. Same sounds have different versions to it.
- Malayalam script is reffered as "Rod Script" and it is derived from the Grantha script, which was developed from Indic script of Brahmi.
Similar To
Bhojpuri Language
Tamil and Sanskrit Languages
Derived From
-
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
4753
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
815
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2241
9
60
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Scripts
Devanagari
Brahmic family and derivatives
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
62
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
pranam
ഹലോ (halēā)
Thank You
dhanyabad
നന്ദി (nandi)
How Are You?
Aahan kehan chhi ?
സുഖമാണോ? (sukhamāṇēā?)
Good Night
Śubharātri
ശുഭ രാത്രി (śubha rātri)
Good Evening
shubh sandhya
ഗുഡ് ഈവനിംഗ് (guḍ īvaniṅg)
Good Afternoon
dopahar ke bad namaskar
ഗുഡ് ആഫ്റ്റർനൂൺ (guḍ āphṟṟarnūṇ)
Good Morning
Suprabhaat
രാവിലെ (rāvile)
Please
kripaya
ദയവായി (dayavāyi)
Sorry
maf karai
ക്ഷമിക്കണം (kṣamikkaṇaṁ)
Bye
Alavidā
വിട (viṭa)
I Love You
hawm ahāṃ se prem karechi
ഞാൻ നിന്നെ സ്നേഹിക്കുന്നു (ñān ninne snēhikkunnu)
Excuse Me
kripaya
എക്സ്ക്യൂസ് മീ (ekskyūs mī)
Dialect 1
Tharuwat
Judeo-Malayalam
Where They Speak
Nepal
Israel, kerala
How Many People Speak
35,000,000.0038,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Madhubani
Mappila
Where They Speak
North India
India
How Many People Speak
35,000,000.0038,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Khortha
Pandy Malayalam
Where They Speak
Deoghar, France
France, kerala
How Many People Speak
35,000,000.0038,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
153
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
32.00 million38.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.41 %0.57 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
27.00 million38.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
2.80 million38.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
मैथिली (mɛtʰilī)
മലയാളം (malayāḷam)
Alternative Names
Apabhramsa, Bihari, Maitili, Maitli, Methli, Tirahutia, Tirhuti, Tirhutia
Alealum, Malayalani, Malayali, Malean, Maliyad, Mallealle, Mopla
French Name
maithili
malayalam
German Name
Maithili
Malayalam
Pronunciation
[ˈmaitʰili]
[mɐləjaːɭɐm]
Ethnicity
Maithil
Malayali
Origin
14th century
9th Century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Dravidian Family
Subgroup
-
-
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early form
Standard Forms
Standard Maithili
Malayalam
Language Position
4029
1
120
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Signed Forms
Maithili Sign Language
Signed Malayalam
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
No data available
ml
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
mai
mal
ISO 639 2/B
mai
mal
ISO 639 3
mai
mal
ISO 639 6
mai
mal
Glottocode
mait1250
mala1464
Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
-
Language Morphological Typology
-
Synthetic