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
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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.
- Tulu script is similar to Thigalaya script, which was one of the earliest scripts such as Persian and Latin.
- Tulu is a protoDravidian i.e original language.
Similar To
Bhojpuri Language
Kannada Language
Derived From
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
4751
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
816
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2235
9
60
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Scripts
Devanagari
Kannada Script
Writing Direction
-
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
65
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
pranam
Namaskara
Thank You
dhanyabad
Mast Upakara.
How Are You?
Aahan kehan chhi ?
Yencha Ullar?
Good Night
Śubharātri
yedde rathre
Good Evening
shubh sandhya
yedde baiyya
Good Afternoon
dopahar ke bad namaskar
yedde madhyana
Good Morning
Suprabhaat
yedde kaande
Please
kripaya
Daya maltadu
Sorry
maf karai
Yenna thapu aandu
Bye
Alavidā
Barpe
I Love You
hawm ahāṃ se prem karechi
Yank ninade preeti Malpuye
Excuse Me
kripaya
Kshamisi
Dialect 1
Tharuwat
Brahmin tulu
Where They Speak
Nepal
Tamil Nadu
How Many People Speak
35,000,000.002,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Madhubani
Jain
Where They Speak
North India
Tamil Nadu
How Many People Speak
35,000,000.001,900,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Khortha
Girijan
Where They Speak
Deoghar, France
Tamil Nadu
How Many People Speak
35,000,000.002.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
154
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
32.00 million1.70 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.41 %0.01 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
27.00 million1.70 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
2.80 million2.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
मैथिली (mɛtʰilī)
Tulu
Alternative Names
Apabhramsa, Bihari, Maitili, Maitli, Methli, Tirahutia, Tirhuti, Tirhutia
Tal, Tallu, Thalu, Thulu, Tilu, Tullu, Tuluva Bhasa
French Name
maithili
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German Name
Maithili
Tulu
Pronunciation
[ˈmaitʰili]
[ˈtulu]
Ethnicity
Maithil
Tuluva
Origin
14th century
14
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Dravidian Family
Subgroup
-
-
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Maithili
Tulu
Language Position
4023
1
120
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Signed Forms
Maithili Sign Language
Signed Tulu
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
No data available
No data available
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
mai
tcy
ISO 639 2/B
mai
tul
ISO 639 3
mai
tcy
ISO 639 6
mai
tcy
Glottocode
mait1250
tulu1258
Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
-
Language Morphological Typology
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