Countries
India, Nepal
European Union, Finland, Nordic Council, Sweden
Total No. Of Countries
24
0
46
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National Language
India, Nepal
Sweden
Second Language
Nepal
Finland
Speaking Continents
Asia
Antartica, Europe
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Australia, Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, Netherlands, Spain, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States of America
Regulated By
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Institute for the Languages of Finland, Swedish Academy, Swedish Language Council
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 Swedish language, article comes after noun.
- Most of the words in Swedish language began "S" than any other letter.
Similar To
Bhojpuri Language
Norwegian and Danish Language
Derived From
-
Old Norse Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
4729
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
89
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2218
9
60
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Scripts
Devanagari
Latin
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
66
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks24 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
pranam
hej
Thank You
dhanyabad
tacka dig
How Are You?
Aahan kehan chhi ?
hur mår du
Good Night
Śubharātri
godnatt
Good Evening
shubh sandhya
god kväll
Good Afternoon
dopahar ke bad namaskar
god eftermiddag
Good Morning
Suprabhaat
god morgon
Please
kripaya
vänligen
Sorry
maf karai
ledsen
Bye
Alavidā
hej då
I Love You
hawm ahāṃ se prem karechi
jag älskar dig
Excuse Me
kripaya
ursäkta mig
Dialect 1
Tharuwat
Dialects
Where They Speak
Nepal
Gabon
How Many People Speak
35,000,000.0078,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Madhubani
Dialects
Where They Speak
North India
Georgia
How Many People Speak
35,000,000.0078,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Khortha
Dialects
Where They Speak
Deoghar, France
France
How Many People Speak
35,000,000.0096,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
1579
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
32.00 million15.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.41 %0.13 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
27.00 million8.70 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
2.80 million5.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
मैथिली (mɛtʰilī)
Svenska
Alternative Names
Apabhramsa, Bihari, Maitili, Maitli, Methli, Tirahutia, Tirhuti, Tirhutia
Ruotsi, Svenska
French Name
maithili
suédois
German Name
Maithili
Schwedisch
Pronunciation
[ˈmaitʰili]
[ˈsvɛ̂nskâ]
Ethnicity
Maithil
Swedes, Finland Swedes
Origin
14th century
13th Century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
-
Germanic
Branch
-
Northern (Scandinavian)
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Old Swedish
Standard Forms
Standard Maithili
Standard Swedish
Language Position
4089
1
120
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Signed Forms
Maithili Sign Language
Tecknad svenska, ("Signed Swedish")
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
No data available
sv
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
mai
swe
ISO 639 2/B
mai
swe
ISO 639 3
mai
swe
ISO 639 6
mai
swe
Glottocode
mait1250
swed1254
Linguasphere
No data available
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Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
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Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
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