Countries
India, Nepal
Zimbabwe
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
👆🏻
National Language
India, Nepal
Botswana, Mozambique, Zimbabwe
Second Language
Nepal
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Africa
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
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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.
- Shona language is tonal language.
- The African people in Zimbabwe is made of 10 ethnic groups, each speaking a different languages, shona is spoken by 60 percent of population.
Similar To
Bhojpuri Language
Kalanga and Nambya Language
Derived From
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
4737
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
85
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2246
9
60
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Scripts
Devanagari
Latin
Writing Direction
-
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
64
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks30 weeks
3
88
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Hello
pranam
Mhoro
Thank You
dhanyabad
Waita zvako
How Are You?
Aahan kehan chhi ?
Wakadini zvako?
Good Night
Śubharātri
Urare zvakanaka
Good Evening
shubh sandhya
Manheru
Good Afternoon
dopahar ke bad namaskar
Masikati
Good Morning
Suprabhaat
Mangwanani
Please
kripaya
Ndinokumbirawo
Sorry
maf karai
Ndineurombo
Bye
Alavidā
bye
I Love You
hawm ahāṃ se prem karechi
Ndinokuda
Excuse Me
kripaya
Pamusoro
Dialect 1
Tharuwat
Hwesa
Where They Speak
Nepal
Zimbabwe
How Many People Speak
35,000,000.0011,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Madhubani
Karanga
Where They Speak
North India
southern Zimbabwe
How Many People Speak
35,000,000.001,100,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Khortha
Zezuru
Where They Speak
Deoghar, France
central Zimbabwe, Mashonaland
How Many People Speak
35,000,000.0016.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
154
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
32.00 million25.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.41 %0.13 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
27.00 million8.30 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
2.80 million16.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
मैथिली (mɛtʰilī)
chiShona
Alternative Names
Apabhramsa, Bihari, Maitili, Maitli, Methli, Tirahutia, Tirhuti, Tirhutia
Chishona, “Swina” (pej.), Zezuru
French Name
maithili
shona
German Name
Maithili
Schona-Sprache
Pronunciation
[ˈmaitʰili]
[ʃoːna]
Ethnicity
Maithil
Shona people
Origin
14th century
20th century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Niger-Congo Family
Subgroup
-
Benue-Congo
Branch
-
Bantu
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Old Shona and Middle Shona
Standard Forms
Standard Maithili
Standard Shona
Language Position
40107
1
120
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Signed Forms
Maithili Sign Language
Signed Shona
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
No data available
sn
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
mai
sna
ISO 639 2/B
mai
sna
ISO 639 3
mai
sna
ISO 639 6
mai
sna
Glottocode
mait1250
core1255
Linguasphere
No data available
99-AUT-a
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
-
Language Morphological Typology
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