Countries
India, Nepal
India
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
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National Language
India, Nepal
India
Second Language
Nepal
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
-
-
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 earliest literature in Oriya was traced in 7th to 9th centuries.
- Since Odia is having a long literary history and has not borrowed largely from other languages, it is the 6th classical language in India.
Similar To
Bhojpuri Language
Bengali and Assamese
Derived From
-
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
4742
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
811
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2231
9
60
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Scripts
Devanagari
Bengali, Odia alphabet (Brahmic)
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
63
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
pranam
ନମସ୍କାର (namascara)
Thank You
dhanyabad
ଧନ୍ୟବାଦ୍ (dhanyabaad)
How Are You?
Aahan kehan chhi ?
କେମିତି ଅତ୍ଚନ୍ଥି? (kemiti achanti?)
Good Night
Śubharātri
ସୁଭରାତ୍ର (shubharaatra)
Good Evening
shubh sandhya
ସୁଭସନ୍ଧ୍ୟା (subha sandhya)
Good Afternoon
dopahar ke bad namaskar
ସୁଭ ଖରା ବେଳ (shubha kharaa bela)
Good Morning
Suprabhaat
ସୁପ୍ରଭାତ (suprabhaata)
Please
kripaya
ଦୟାକରି
Sorry
maf karai
ମୁଁ ଦୁଃଖିତ (mū duḥkhita)
Bye
Alavidā
ସୁବିଦାୟ (shubidaaya)
I Love You
hawm ahāṃ se prem karechi
ମୁଁ ତୁମକୁ ଭଲ ପାଏ (mu tumoku bhala paye)
Excuse Me
kripaya
କ୍ଷମା କରିବେ (kyamā karibe)
Dialect 1
Tharuwat
Baleswari
Where They Speak
Nepal
India
How Many People Speak
35,000,000.0033,800,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Madhubani
Ganjami
Where They Speak
North India
India
How Many People Speak
35,000,000.0033,800,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Khortha
Kosli
Where They Speak
Deoghar, France
India
How Many People Speak
35,000,000.00520,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
158
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
32.00 million33.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.41 %0.50 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
27.00 million33.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
2.80 million35.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
मैथिली (mɛtʰilī)
ଓଡ଼ିଆ (ōṛiyā)
Alternative Names
Apabhramsa, Bihari, Maitili, Maitli, Methli, Tirahutia, Tirhuti, Tirhutia
Odisha, Odri, Odrum, Oliya, Uriya, Utkali, Vadiya, Yudhia
French Name
maithili
oriya
German Name
Maithili
Oriya-Sprache
Pronunciation
[ˈmaitʰili]
[ˈoɽia]
Ethnicity
Maithil
Odias
Origin
14th century
3 BC
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
-
Indo-Iranian
Branch
-
Indic
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Maithili
Standard Odia
Language Position
4032
1
120
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Signed Forms
Maithili Sign Language
Indian Signing System
Scope
Individual
Individual, Macrolanguage
ISO 639 1
No data available
or
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
mai
ori
ISO 639 2/B
mai
ori
ISO 639 3
mai
ori
ISO 639 6
mai
ori
Glottocode
mait1250
macr1269
Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
-
-