Countries
India, Nepal
European Union, Malta
Total No. Of Countries
22
0
46
👆🏻
National Language
India, Nepal
Malta
Second Language
Nepal
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Europe
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Australia, Canada, Italy, United States of America
Regulated By
-
National Council for the Maltese Language
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.
- Maltese language is the only semitic language written in Latin characters.
- Maltese language has borrowed many loan words from English, Italian and French.
Similar To
Bhojpuri Language
Western Arabic Dialects
Derived From
-
Roman Languages
Alphabets in
Alphabets
4730
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
86
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2224
9
60
👆🏻
Scripts
Devanagari
Latin
Writing Direction
-
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
66
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks30 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
pranam
Ħello
Thank You
dhanyabad
Grazzi
How Are You?
Aahan kehan chhi ?
Kif int?
Good Night
Śubharātri
Il-Lejla it-tajba
Good Evening
shubh sandhya
Il-Lejla it-tajba
Good Afternoon
dopahar ke bad namaskar
Wara nofs in-nar it-tajjeb
Good Morning
Suprabhaat
L-għodwa t-tajba
Please
kripaya
Jekk jogħġbok
Sorry
maf karai
Skużani!
Bye
Alavidā
Ċaw
I Love You
hawm ahāṃ se prem karechi
Inħobbok ħafna
Excuse Me
kripaya
Skużi!
Dialect 1
Tharuwat
Qormi
Where They Speak
Nepal
Malta
How Many People Speak
35,000,000.00520,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Madhubani
Żejtun
Where They Speak
North India
Malta
How Many People Speak
35,000,000.00500,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Khortha
Not Present
Where They Speak
Deoghar, France
-
How Many People Speak
35,000,000.00500,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
152
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
32.00 million0.52 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.41 %0.02 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
27.00 million0.52 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
2.80 million0.50 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
मैथिली (mɛtʰilī)
Malti
Alternative Names
Apabhramsa, Bihari, Maitili, Maitli, Methli, Tirahutia, Tirhuti, Tirhutia
Malti
French Name
maithili
maltais
German Name
Maithili
Maltesisch
Pronunciation
[ˈmaitʰili]
[mɔːltiːz]
Ethnicity
Maithil
Maltese
Origin
14th century
c. 1470
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Subgroup
-
Semitic
Branch
-
North Abric
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Maithili
Maltese
Language Position
4025
1
120
👆🏻
Signed Forms
Maithili Sign Language
Maltese Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
No data available
mt
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
mai
mlt
ISO 639 2/B
mai
mlt
ISO 639 3
mai
mlt
ISO 639 6
mai
mlt
Glottocode
mait1250
malt1254
Linguasphere
No data available
12-AAC-c
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
-
Synthetic