Countries
India, Nepal
Brunei, Malaysia, Singapore
Total No. Of Countries
23
0
46
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National Language
India, Nepal
Malaysia
Second Language
Nepal
Indonesia
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Thailand
Regulated By
-
Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka
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.
- One of the most politically powerful language historically is Malaysian Language.
- Malaysian earliest known inscriptions were found in South of Sumatra way back in 683-6 AD.
Similar To
Bhojpuri Language
Indonesian Language
Derived From
-
Tamil Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
4726
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
86
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2224
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
Hai
Thank You
dhanyabad
terima kasih
How Are You?
Aahan kehan chhi ?
Apa khabar?
Good Night
Śubharātri
Selamat Malam
Good Evening
shubh sandhya
Selamat Petang
Good Afternoon
dopahar ke bad namaskar
Selamat tengah hari
Good Morning
Suprabhaat
Selamat pagi
Please
kripaya
sila
Sorry
maf karai
maaf
Bye
Alavidā
Selamat tinggal
I Love You
hawm ahāṃ se prem karechi
Saya sayang kamu
Excuse Me
kripaya
Maafkan saya
Dialect 1
Tharuwat
Bengkulu
Where They Speak
Nepal
Bengkulu Province, Sumatra
How Many People Speak
35,000,000.001,600,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Madhubani
Pekal
Where They Speak
North India
Indonesia
How Many People Speak
35,000,000.0030,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Khortha
Musi
Where They Speak
Deoghar, France
Indonesia
How Many People Speak
35,000,000.003,100,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
1524
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
32.00 million175.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.41 %1.16 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
27.00 million77.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
2.80 million98.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
मैथिली (mɛtʰilī)
Bahasa melayu
Alternative Names
Apabhramsa, Bihari, Maitili, Maitli, Methli, Tirahutia, Tirhuti, Tirhutia
Bahasa Malaysia
French Name
maithili
malais
German Name
Maithili
Malaiisch
Pronunciation
[ˈmaitʰili]
[baˈhasə malajˈsiə]
Ethnicity
Maithil
Malaysian people
Origin
14th century
c. 683 AD
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Austronesian Family
Subgroup
-
-
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Ancient Malay, Old Malay, Pre-Modern MalayClassical Malay,
Standard Forms
Standard Maithili
Pluricentric Standard Malay
Language Position
4054
1
120
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Signed Forms
Maithili Sign Language
Malaysian Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
No data available
ms
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
mai
msa
ISO 639 2/B
mai
may
ISO 639 3
mai
zsm
ISO 639 6
mai
may
Glottocode
mait1250
stan1306
Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
-
Language Morphological Typology
-
Agglutinative