Countries
India, Nepal
Sri Lanka
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
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National Language
India, Nepal
Sri Lanka
Second Language
Nepal
Sri Lanka
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
-
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
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.
- In Sinhalese language, there are many loanwords from Dravidian languages mainly Tamil, Portuguese, Dutch and English.
- Sinhalese language has it own script/ writing system.
Similar To
Bhojpuri Language
Maldivian Language
Derived From
-
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
4754
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
818
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2236
9
60
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Scripts
Devanagari
Sinhala alphabet
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
හලෝ (halō)
Thank You
dhanyabad
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
How Are You?
Aahan kehan chhi ?
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
Good Night
Śubharātri
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
Good Evening
shubh sandhya
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
Good Afternoon
dopahar ke bad namaskar
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
Good Morning
Suprabhaat
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
Please
kripaya
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
Sorry
maf karai
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
Bye
Alavidā
බායි (bāyi)
I Love You
hawm ahāṃ se prem karechi
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
Excuse Me
kripaya
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
Dialect 1
Tharuwat
Vedda
Where They Speak
Nepal
Sri Lanka
How Many People Speak
35,000,000.0019,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Madhubani
Sri Lankan Sinhala
Where They Speak
North India
-
How Many People Speak
35,000,000.0019,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Khortha
Up-Country Sinhalese
Where They Speak
Deoghar, France
-
How Many People Speak
35,000,000.0016,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
151
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
32.00 million16.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.41 %0.25 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
27.00 million16.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
2.80 million2.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
मैथिली (mɛtʰilī)
සිංහල (sĩhala)
Alternative Names
Apabhramsa, Bihari, Maitili, Maitli, Methli, Tirahutia, Tirhuti, Tirhutia
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
French Name
maithili
singhalais
German Name
Maithili
Singhalesisch
Pronunciation
[ˈmaitʰili]
[ˈsiŋhəliːz]
Ethnicity
Maithil
Sinhalese people
Origin
14th century
3
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
-
Indo-Iranian
Branch
-
Indic
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Sinhalese Prakrit
Standard Forms
Standard Maithili
Modern Sinhalese
Language Position
4070
1
120
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Signed Forms
Maithili Sign Language
Signed Sinhalese
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
No data available
si
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
mai
sin
ISO 639 2/B
mai
sin
ISO 639 3
mai
sin
ISO 639 6
mai
sin
Glottocode
mait1250
sinh1246
Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
-
Fusional