Countries
India, Nepal
South Africa
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
👆🏻
National Language
India, Nepal
South Africa
Second Language
Nepal
Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Swaziland, Zimbabwe
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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Pan South African Language Board
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.
- The meaning of word "Zulu" means "Sky"and Zulu was the name of the ancestor who founded the Zulu royal line in about 1670.
- Zulu language has many loanwords borrowed from Afrikaans and English Languages.
Similar To
Bhojpuri Language
Xhosa Language
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
4757
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
87
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2250
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
Sawubona
Thank You
dhanyabad
Ngiyabonga
How Are You?
Aahan kehan chhi ?
unjani
Good Night
Śubharātri
okuhle ebusuku
Good Evening
shubh sandhya
okuhle kusihlwa
Good Afternoon
dopahar ke bad namaskar
okuhle ntambama
Good Morning
Suprabhaat
okuhle ekuseni
Please
kripaya
Ngiyacela
Sorry
maf karai
Ngiyaxolisa
Bye
Alavidā
bye
I Love You
hawm ahāṃ se prem karechi
Ngiyakuthanda wena
Excuse Me
kripaya
Uxolo
Dialect 1
Tharuwat
Qwabe
Where They Speak
Nepal
Gabon, South Africa
How Many People Speak
35,000,000.0028,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Madhubani
central KwaZulu-Natal Zulu
Where They Speak
North India
Georgia, South Africa
How Many People Speak
35,000,000.0028,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Khortha
Ndebele
Where They Speak
Deoghar, France
Zimbabwe
How Many People Speak
35,000,000.0028,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
154
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
32.00 million30.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.41 %0.16 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
27.00 million12.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
2.80 million16.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
मैथिली (mɛtʰilī)
isiZulu
Alternative Names
Apabhramsa, Bihari, Maitili, Maitli, Methli, Tirahutia, Tirhuti, Tirhutia
Isizulu, Zunda
French Name
maithili
zoulou
German Name
Maithili
Zulu-Sprache
Pronunciation
[ˈmaitʰili]
[zuːlu]
Ethnicity
Maithil
Zulu people
Origin
14th century
19
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Niger-Congo Family
Subgroup
-
Benue-Congo
Branch
-
Beatu
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
urban Zulu
Standard Forms
Standard Maithili
Deep Zulu
Language Position
4087
1
120
👆🏻
Signed Forms
Maithili Sign Language
Zulu Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
No data available
zu
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
mai
zul
ISO 639 2/B
mai
zul
ISO 639 3
mai
zul
ISO 639 6
mai
zul
Glottocode
mait1250
zulu1248
Linguasphere
No data available
99-AUT-fg
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
-
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