Countries
India, Nepal
South Africa
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
👆🏻
National Language
India, Nepal
South Africa
Second Language
Nepal
Lesotho, South Africa
Speaking Continents
Asia
Africa
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Botswana, Lesotho
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.
- Xhosa has 15 click sounds, borrowed from the khoi-khoi and san languages of the South Africa.
- The same sequence of consonants and vowels can have different meaning when said with different tones, so Xhosa is tonal.
Similar To
Bhojpuri Language
Zulu, Swazi, and Ndebele
Derived From
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Khoi-Khoi and San Languages
Alphabets in
Alphabets
4753
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
810
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2243
9
60
👆🏻
Scripts
Devanagari
Latin
Writing Direction
-
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
63
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
pranam
Molo
Thank You
dhanyabad
Ndiyabulela
How Are You?
Aahan kehan chhi ?
Unjani
Good Night
Śubharātri
Ulale kakuhle
Good Evening
shubh sandhya
Ubusuku obuhle
Good Afternoon
dopahar ke bad namaskar
Uben' emva kwemini entle
Good Morning
Suprabhaat
Molo
Please
kripaya
Ndicela
Sorry
maf karai
Ndicela uxolo
Bye
Alavidā
Uhambe/Usale kakuhle
I Love You
hawm ahāṃ se prem karechi
Ndiyakuthanda
Excuse Me
kripaya
Uxolo
Dialect 1
Tharuwat
Gcaleka
Where They Speak
Nepal
South Africa
How Many People Speak
35,000,000.0019,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Madhubani
Thembu
Where They Speak
North India
South Africa
How Many People Speak
35,000,000.0019,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Khortha
Hlubi
Where They Speak
Deoghar, France
South Africa
How Many People Speak
35,000,000.0019.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
159
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
32.00 million20.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.41 %0.11 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
27.00 million8.20 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
2.80 million11.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
मैथिली (mɛtʰilī)
isiXhosa
Alternative Names
Apabhramsa, Bihari, Maitili, Maitli, Methli, Tirahutia, Tirhuti, Tirhutia
“Cauzuh” (pej.), Isixhosa, Koosa, Xosa
French Name
maithili
xhosa
German Name
Maithili
Xhosa-Sprache
Pronunciation
[ˈmaitʰili]
[ˈkǁʰɔ̀ːsa]
Ethnicity
Maithil
amaXhosa, amaBhaca
Origin
14th century
16th Century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Niger-Congo Family
Subgroup
-
Benue-Congo
Branch
-
Bantu
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Maithili
isiXhosa
Language Position
4021
1
120
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Signed Forms
Maithili Sign Language
Signed Xhosa
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
No data available
xh
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
mai
xho
ISO 639 2/B
mai
xho
ISO 639 3
mai
xho
ISO 639 6
mai
xho
Glottocode
mait1250
xhos1239
Linguasphere
No data available
99-AUT-fa
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
-
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